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  • Study Finds Social Media Impact On Children & College’s Want To Create Gambling Addicts

    A study from North Carolina has found that social media use could be impacting brain development in children and young teens. Then, colleges have found a new way to make a quick buck – getting students addicted to gambling on sporting events. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software […]

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  • Union Busting Has Become A HUGE Business & Pelosi Undergoes Exorcism In Her Home

    Union-busting is big business in the United States – and there’s a massive, $340 MILLION DOLLAR industry fighting against worker’s rights. Plus, Nancy Pelosi’s daughter says that the former House Speaker had an exorcism performed on her house after her husband’s attack. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software […]

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  • Former Intel Agents Control Facebook Censorship & FTC Looks To Ban Corporate Non-Compete Clause

    A terrifying revolving door has emerged between intelligence agencies and social media companies. Also, the Federal Trade Commission has proposed a new rule to BAN non-compete clauses for workers. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Mike Papantonio: There’s a, this terrifying revolving door […]

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  • Epstein Victims Target Wall Street Bank Enablers & Gas Station Owner Hires Armed Guards

    Several victims of Jeffrey Epstein are suing big banks for allowing Epstein to use his money for human trafficking and abuse. Then, a gas station owner has made headlines after hiring private security armed to the teeth as crime ravages Philadelphia. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, […]

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  • Belarusian journalist Andrey Famin sentenced to 7 years in prison

    New York, July 7, 2023—In response to a Belarusian court sentencing journalist Andrey Famin to seven years in prison, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following statement of condemnation:

    “The seven-year prison sentence handed down to Belarusian journalist Andrey Famin for his alleged involvement in a low-profile network of regional newspapers is proof that authorities will spare no one in their efforts to suppress independent voices,” said Carlos Martinez de la Serna, CPJ’s program director, in New York. “Authorities should drop all charges against Famin, release him immediately, and let the media work freely.”

    On June 21, a court in the capital city of Minsk sentenced Famin to seven years on charges of calling for sanctions, participating in gross violations of public order, and creating an extremist formation, according to July 4 reports by the banned human rights group Viasna and the Belarusian Association of Journalists, an advocacy and trade group operating from exile.

    Belarusian authorities detained Famin on October 27, 2022. Later that day, the pro-government Telegram channel Svodki Tsentra published a video in which Famin is seen saying that he was the editor of Vestniki, a Belarusian network of self-published regional newspapers, and that he was detained by police for his editing activities, according to multiple media reports and CPJ’s review of the video, which has since been taken offline.

    In the video, Famin says that he started the Vestniki opposition newspaper network in 2020, and wrote and edited articles for the papers. He said he received a total of about US$700 for his work.

    Vestniki’s regional papers merged into a single outlet, Belaruskiy Vestnik, after February 24, 2022, Famin says in the video. The newspaper was also distributed through its Telegram channel, which had about 300 subscribers when Famin was detained, and reported on politics, social issues, and the war in Ukraine. Belarusian authorities labeled Vestniki an extremist formation in December 2022.

    CPJ emailed the Belarusian Investigative Committee for comment but did not receive any reply.

    At least 26 journalists were imprisoned in Belarus at the time of CPJ’s 2022 prison census. Famin was not listed in that census because of fears that his inclusion could imperil his court case.

    This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Erik Crouch.

  • Campaign Legal Center Files Ethics Complaint Against Governor DeSantis for Undisclosed Travel Gifts

    In a statement, Arms Control Association executive director Daryl Kimball said that sending cluster bombs to Ukraine “would be escalatory, counterproductive, and only further increase the dangers to civilians caught in combat zones and those who will, someday, return to their cities, towns, and farms.”

    “Some U.S. officials claim that these weapons ‘would be useful’ against mass formations of troops and armor or broad targets, such as airfields, and that they would allow Ukraine to concentrate their use of unitary warheads against higher-value Russian targets,” said Kimball.

    “The reality is more complicated,” he continued. “Cluster munitions will not differentiate a Ukrainian soldier from a Russian one. The effectiveness of cluster munitions is significantly oversold and the impact on noncombatants is widely acknowledged, but too often overlooked.”

    Kimball noted that “the limited military utility and the substantial humanitarian dangers of cluster munitions are among the key reasons why the Defense Department halted using them in Afghanistan in 2002 and Iraq in 2003, and has chosen to invest in alternative munitions.”

    “It is why, in 2008, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates issued an order to phase out by 2018 cluster munitions with an unexploded ordnance rate of greater than 1%, and it is why, in 2011, the Obama administration affirmed this policy,” said Kimball. “It is why Congress, in 2018, enacted a series of export restrictions on cluster munitions with a failure rate in excess of 1%.”

    “The Pentagon has, unfortunately, dragged its feet and in 2017 the Trump administration announced the 2018 deadline for phasing out non-compliant cluster munitions would not be met,” he added. “No new deadline for meeting that goal was set by the Trump administration or the Biden administration.”

    On the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden said, “The decisions we make over the next five years are going to determine and shape our lives for decades to come… a choice between chaos and stability.”

    Kimball on Thursday referenced that February statement and said, “Rather than add to the chaos and side-step the rules of the global system, President Biden should have made it clear that cluster munitions need not and should not be part of the conflict in Ukraine, or in any war.”

    As the Arms Control Association explains:

    Cluster munitions are designed to disperse or release explosive submunitions, each of which weighs less than 20 kilograms, and includes those explosive submunitions. The U.S. stockpile includes dual-purpose improved conventional munitions (DPICMs), surface-to-surface warheads, and other types of older cluster munitions. Given that cluster munitions disperse hundreds or even thousands of tiny but deadly bomblets, their use produces significant quantities of unexploded submunitions that can maim, injure, or kill civilians and friendly forces during, and long after, a conflict.

    The limited military value and the indiscriminate impacts of these weapons led the majority of the world’s countries to negotiate the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. The treaty—which 123 nations have joined—prohibits State parties from developing, producing, acquiring, using, transferring, or stockpiling cluster munitions. While 23 NATO members are parties to the treaty, the United States, Ukraine, and Russia are not.

    Human Rights Watch (HRW) has long documented the devastating consequences of U.S.-made cluster munitions in countries such as Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Yemen.

    On Thursday, HRW released a new report detailing civilian harm and suffering caused by the use of cluster bombs throughout the war in Ukraine.

    “Cluster munitions used by Russia and Ukraine are killing civilians now and will continue to do so for many years,” said Mary Wareham, the organization’s acting arms director. “Both sides should immediately stop using them and not try to get more of these indiscriminate weapons.”


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  • TikTok Sued In Indiana For Putting Children At Risk & Lobbyists Have Outsmarted DC Politicians

    The state of Indiana is suing popular social media app TikTok for endangering children. Also, lobbyists have found a new way to outsmart politicians and get them to attend their corporate events. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Mike Papantonio: The state of […]

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  • South Africa judge strikes down gag order against investigative outlet amaBhungane

    New York, July 3, 2023—In response to a South African High Court’s Monday judgment striking down a gag order against the amaBhungane Center for Investigative Journalism, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following statement:

    “Today’s judgment is a massive victory for media freedom in South Africa and an important vindication of a journalist’s ethical duty to protect confidential sources in the public interest,” said Angela Quintal, CPJ’s Africa program coordinator. “Deputy Judge President Roland Sutherland’s judgment reaffirms that the country’s courts will not condone pre-publication censorship without appropriate notice and that investigative journalists have the right to hold and use leaked information in the public interest.”

    Quintal has been an amaBhungane board member since October 2013.

    A judge granted the original injunction against amaBhungane on June 1—following a secret application by the Moti Group, the subject of the outlet’s coverage—and the action was widely condemned as a threat to media freedom in the country. The injunction ordered the outlet to return leaked documents and refrain from publishing further articles based on them.

    On June 3, amaBhungane launched an urgent application in the Johannesburg High Court to overturn the order, in which the parties agreed that the investigative outlet would not destroy or alter the documentation until the matter could be heard in open court. 

    AmaBhungane sought another urgent application seeking to overthrow the original order last week; the judgment in its favor was delivered Monday, July 3.

    Sutherland called the Moti Group’s application an “abuse of the court process,” according to multiple news reports and a joint statement by the South African National Editors’ Forum, the Campaign for Free Expression, and Media Monitoring Africa, three local press freedom organizations who joined amaBhungane in its legal case. The judge ordered the Moti Group to pay amaBhungane’s and the three organizations’ legal costs.


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  • US Chamber Of Commerce Comes To Rescue Big Pharma In Pricing Lawsuit

    We recently talked about drug company Merck suing the federal government because they don’t want to lower the cost of their drugs. That lawsuit has now expanded, with groups like the US Chamber of Commerce and Big Pharma front groups joining in to keep prices high for American consumers. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Transcript: *This transcript […]

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  • PFAS Chemical Polluter Reaches MASSIVE Billion Dollar Settlement

    The company responsible for toxic PFAS chemicals being a part of our everyday lives has agreed to a massive settlement with cities and municipalities that could provide some relief for residents that have been consuming the toxic chemicals. This fight is far from over, but this is a huge win for the plaintiffs. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss […]

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  • Gov. Abbott Screws Over Texas Workers During Record Heat

    Texas has been experiencing a record-breaking heat wave that has now spread across the southern United States. And while this was happening, Texas governor Greg Abbott signed a bill that eliminates mandatory water breaks for outdoor construction workers. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse […]

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  • Hunter Biden Exposed Cashing In On His Father’s Name

    Communications between Hunter Biden and a business associate in China have raised a lot of questions about how he cashed in on his family name – and the messages suggest that President Biden may have been by his side the entire time, literally. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription […]

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  • Biden & The Sins Of His Son

    America’s Lawyer E59: Newly released messages show that Hunter Biden was using his father’s status and connections to secure payments from overseas business partners, and we’ll tell you what this could mean for the Biden family. The US Chamber of Commerce and several other groups are joining the legal fight to keep prescription drug prices higher […]

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  • CEO Using Inflation To Justify Price-Gouging & Toxic PFAS Chemicals Found In EVERY US State

    A tech CEO admitted to Wall Street analysts that he has been praying for inflation. Then, a new study has confirmed that there are unsafe levels of PFAS chemicals in every single state in this country. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Click here to find out more about PFAS lawsuits. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a […]

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  • Companies Are Trapping Workers In Terrible Jobs & Health Insurance Prices Spike

    Companies in the United States are using contracts to trap workers in jobs that they hate, creating a new form of indentured servitude. Also, health insurance companies are gouging consumers while taking millions of dollars from the federal government each year. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, […]

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  • NY Lawyer Busted Using ChatGPT To Create Phony Cases

    A lawyer in New York is facing sanctions – and possibly worse – after he used the AI service Chat GPT to create a legal brief. The artificial intelligence bot created a list of fake court cases that the lawyer used in his brief, but he got busted when the opposing side couldn’t find any […]

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  • Shady Law Firm & Big Pharma Team Up To Screw Over Consumers

    Pharmaceutical giant Merck is suing the federal government so that they can continue to price gouge American consumers. Merck is angry about legislation that would require them to lower the cost of just a handful of their drugs covered by Medicare because they want to squeeze as much money as possible out of sick people. Mike […]

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  • Democratic Elites FEAR Kennedy In 2024

    America’s Lawyer E58: Voices are growing louder calling for the Democratic Party to have a REAL primary for the 2024 nomination, but the Party is scared as the non-Biden candidates start to gain momentum. The drug company Merck is suing the federal government so that they can continue to price gouge consumers with their over-priced […]

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  • Papantonio Gives Expertise At Baylor Judicial Summit

    This “invitation only” conference hosted by Baylor Law School was held at the St. Regis in Aspen, Colorado. In attendance nearly 50 judges, over 80 lawyers, 13 corporate GCs and 5 Special Masters along with 7 academicians. America’s Lawyer Mike Papantonio spoke on many different topics including: ·      The Manual for Complex Litigation addresses the obligations of transferee […]

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  • U.S. Pentagon Has Restarted It’s Propaganda Department

    The Pentagon has restarted their propaganda department – and that isn’t hyperbole. Last year, the federal government ramped up their production of pro-USA propaganda both in the United States and abroad. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Mike Papantonio: The Pentagon has restarted […]

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  • Kenyan government minister Moses Kuria insults, threatens Nation Media Group

    Nairobi, June 21, 2023—In response to Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Trade and Industry Moses Kuria’s derogatory remarks and threats of economic sanctions against the privately owned Nation Media Group, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following statement:

    “The vile insults and threats that Kenya’s trade minister Moses Kuria hurled at the Nation Media Group over the last few days undermine the dignity of the minister’s taxpayer-funded office and expose a disturbing disregard for constitutionally protected freedoms of the press,” said CPJ Africa Program Coordinator Angela Quintal, from New York. “Kuria should retract his threats, and the government should guarantee media outlets do not face retaliatory economic sanctions for their reporting.”

    In a video posted on Twitter on June 18, Kuria threatened to fire government officials who advertised with the Nation Media Group, a corporation that owns a number of local and regional newspapers and broadcasters. The following day, he posted pictures of advertisements in the company’s newspapers and said the ads were “not good.”

    In a series of tweets between June 18 and June 20, Kuria called the company’s employees “prostitutes,” accused its journalists of corruption and bias, and promised to publish the names of “Nation Media Group writers who have confessed to being coerced to write anti government stories” in a “scheme” by editors, management, and “a former president.”

    The actions came after Nation Media Group’s print publications and its broadcaster NTV carried reports alleging government officials’ involvement in a corrupt scheme to import duty-free cooking oil that cost taxpayers billions of shillings. 

    On Wednesday, June 21, Kuria told journalists he would not apologize for his comments and said, “There is no one who is more pro-media than me.” 

    Also on Wednesday, the High Court in Nairobi issued an injunction against Kuria, barring him from insulting or vilifying the media, pending the hearing of a petition alleging the minister had breached values of governance and leadership as outlined by the Kenyan constitution. The case is expected to be heard on July 24.

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  • 3000 American Murders Okay With The PGA

    America’s Lawyer E57: Vice President Kamala Harris might be the biggest drag on President Biden’s reelection chances because the public hasn’t been happy about anything she’s done since taking office. CNN fired their CEO last week after a pathetic year, but firing Chris Licht isn’t going to do anything to fix the problems at the […]

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  • Meta Threatens To Remove News Articles From Platform

    Facebook’s parent company META is threatening to remove News articles from the Facebook feeds of users in California if the state passes a law that would require the company to actually pay outlets for their content. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. […]

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  • New Hampshire Public Radio ordered to turn over interviews, notes

    New Hampshire Public Radio Senior Reporter and Producer Lauren Chooljian was ordered on May 30, 2023, to turn over transcripts and notes in connection with a defamation lawsuit against the radio news service.

    The underlying suit was filed in September 2022 by Eric Spofford, the subject of a March investigation into his alleged pattern of sexual misconduct and retaliation while CEO of a network of addiction rehabilitation centers. Chooljian was named as a defendant, along with Senior Reporter and Producer Jason Moon and News Director Dan Barrick.

    The lawsuit was dismissed on April 18, NHPR reported. In his decision, Rockingham Superior Court Justice Daniel St. Hilaire wrote that Spofford had failed to provide evidence of actual malice, the legal burden that public figures must meet in order to pursue libel claims.

    Then, on April 26, Spofford, seeking evidence of alleged malice ahead of refiling his complaint, asked the court to order Chooljian to turn over full recordings and notes from six interviews, including those she conducted with two anonymous sources, as well as notes about and communications with two other sources.

    Attorneys for NHPR filed an opposition to the request on May 8, arguing that it would be an “extraordinary inversion of the usual order of operations.”

    “NHPR’s story was based on nearly 50 sources — 4 who are named, and 2 more whom Spofford acknowledges are real,” the NHPR filing said. “Spofford has failed to allege a factual basis for concluding that NHPR’s sources lied, let alone — as would be required to establish actual malice — that NHPR either knew that its story was false or acted with reckless disregard for its truth or falsity.”

    But St. Hilaire largely granted the discovery request on May 30, giving NHPR 40 days to provide the documents and transcripts of the interviews to the court. St. Hilaire ruled, however, that he would review the materials in private first in order to determine whether Chooljian or NHPR “displayed a reckless disregard for the truth by reporting a story they knew or suspected was false.” He also noted that the radio service would have the opportunity to appeal the release of any materials in the event that he finds they are subject to disclosure.

    Chooljian did not respond to a request for comment.

    The New York Times reported in June that shortly after Choolijan’s initial investigation was published, her home in Massachusetts was vandalized, as was her parents’ home and Barrick’s. Investigations into the attacks are ongoing, and Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan has said her office is looking into whether the attacks were connected to NHPR’s reporting, according to NHPR. Spofford has denied any involvement.


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  • EPA Ignores Court Order To Protect Monsanto’s Toxic Herbicide

    The EPA is still in the pocket of the chemical industry, and a new report says that the agency is filing a court order by letting Monsanto continue to sell toxic herbicides containing Dicamba – all the company had to do was change the label. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a […]

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  • Supreme Court Delivers Massive Blow To Striking Unions

    Last week the Supreme Court handed a massive victory to corporations by ruling that striking union members can be held financial liable for any damages that the company suffers when workers go on strike. This will have a major impact on workers being able to strike going forward. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Transcript: *This transcript was […]

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  • Rivals Dogpile On Trump As His Legal Problems Get Worse

    Donald Trump has had one of his worst weeks ever, and things are going to continue to get worse for him as the Summer goes on. To make things worse for him, he now has even more Republican rivals entering the presidential race who aren’t afraid to take some serious shots at him and his […]

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  • Pelosi & Her Elitist Dems Awarded For Trashing Consumers

    Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was recently given an award by the healthcare industry for working tirelessly – for years – to prevent REAL healthcare reform that would provide relief to consumers from happening. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Mike Papantonio: Former […]

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  • South African court prohibits former president’s private prosecution of journalist Karyn Maughan

    New York, June 8, 2023—In response to the Wednesday, June 7, ruling by the Pietermaritzburg High Court prohibiting former South African President Jacob Zuma from continuing the private prosecution of journalist Karyn Maughan, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following statement urging the former president to accept the ruling:

    “The unanimous ruling of three high court judges, including a punitive cost order, is a legal smackdown for former South African President Jacob Zuma and a massive victory for Karyn Maughan to continue her journalism freely without the sustained harassment campaign that Zuma, his family, and his supporters have waged both online and within the legal system,” said Angela Quintal, CPJ’s Africa program coordinator. “We urge the former president not to appeal the judgment. Zuma took an oath to uphold the Constitution when he became president, and he should accept the constitutional right to media freedom that the court has so eloquently upheld.”

    The case began in September 2022, when Zuma’s legal team filed criminal charges which launched a private prosecution against Maughan in connection to her August 2021 News24 report on Zuma’s medical condition. The court found that the alleged confidential information that Zuma claimed was unlawfully given to Maughan was in fact public and had already been filed in court three times by the time she published them.

    On Wednesday, the Jacob Zuma Foundation, the former president’s personal foundation, tweeted that he would appeal the “bizarre judgment.”

    In their ruling, the judges labeled Zuma’s attempt at privately prosecuting Maughan an “abuse of process” and a violation of the right to media freedom recognized in the South African Constitution. The judges also noted that the media’s right to freedom of expression “is not just (or even primarily) for the benefit of the media: it is for the benefit of the public.”

    “Such [a] right we agree encompasses the right of journalists to report freely on matters of public interest without threats and without intimidation and harassment,” the judges wrote.  The judges said it was evident in Zuma’s affidavit and tweets by his associates and his daughter that the former president harbors “great hostility” towards Maughan. 

    Prosecutors have previously criticized Zuma for his “Stalingrad Strategy” in attempting to delay his trial over alleged corruption in an arms deal for nearly 20 years.


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  • Pakistani journalists Ahmad Noorani and Shahid Aslam targeted in leak case

    New York, June 8, 2023–Pakistan authorities must cease harassing journalists Ahmad Noorani and Shahid Aslam and allow them to work without interference, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday.

    In late May, Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) issued an investigative report, which CPJ reviewed, accusing the journalists of involvement in illegally accessing the tax records of former Pakistan army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa and his family alongside three officials with the country’s Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).

    The FIA’s Anti-Corruption Circle opened an investigation into those board officials on December 15, according to a first information report reviewed by CPJ. The investigation followed a November 2022 article on Bajwa and his family’s assets published on the independent news website Fact Focus by Noorani, who contributes to the outlet from exile in the U.S. The Pakistan government subsequently blocked domestic access to Fact Focus for around 24 hours, Noorani told CPJ by phone.

    The investigative report, known as a challan, declared Noorani a “proclaimed offender” in the case and stated that “legal efforts are being made for his arrest.” If Noorani does not surrender to the agency, the FIA may initiate a legal process to confiscate his properties and assets, the journalist said, adding that authorities did not send a court summons or arrest warrant to his address in Pakistan, which is listed in the challan.

    The same challan accused Aslam, a freelance journalist and former correspondent for the privately owned broadcaster BOL News, of offering a bribe to FBR officials to obtain the tax data. Aslam, who has critically reported on the FIA, told CPJ by phone that he denied all allegations against him and was not involved in the Fact Focus article. Aslam told CPJ that he has been summoned to appear in court on July 19, when the bench will determine the nature of the charges against him and the three FBR officials.

    In January 2023, the FIA arrested Aslam and seized his mobile phone and laptop, accusing him of involvement in the leak. The phone and laptop remain in the agency’s custody for forensic analysis, according to the challan and Aslam.

    “Pakistani authorities targeting exiled journalist Ahmad Noorani following his reporting on the tax records of Pakistan’s former army chief and his family is a clear intimidation and threat to press freedom,” said Beh Lih Yi, CPJ’s Asia program coordinator. “Authorities must drop any investigation into Noorani and journalist Shahid Aslam, and immediately return the electronic devices seized during Aslam’s arrest.” 

    Noorani, who previously worked as a senior reporter for the privately owned Pakistani newspaper The News International and critically covered the country’s military and intelligence agencies, survived a near-fatal attack in October 2017 in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital. Authorities have failed to hold those behind the attack accountable and did not conduct geo-fencing—the identification of active mobile numbers in a specific area and a common practice used during investigations in Pakistan—to identify the perpetrators, Noorani told CPJ.

    In 2020, while working from exile, Noorani received death threats in retaliation for his critical reporting on another retired army general.

    CPJ’s calls and messages to FIA Director-General Mohsin Butt and Islamabad Police Inspector-General Akbar Nasir Khan received no replies. CPJ was unable to identify contact information for Bajwa.


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