Coverage of insecure events

Case Study for Reflection – Police injure 31 journalists covering demonstrations

In September 2007, at least 30 journalists were wounded by police trying to stop
them covering a crackdown on demonstrations in Islamabad and Peshawar by
lawyers opposing the president’s candidacy at upcoming elections.

Police set about the lawyers and journalists with clubs and threw stones at
them inIslamabad on 29 September. Twenty-nine journalists were taken to
hospital with serious injuries.