[MirzaKamran]

Police baton charge, arrest 150 journalists in Karachi

Updated at 1640 PST KARACHI (By Afzal Nadeem, Khursheed Abbasi, Minhaj-ur-Rab): Police baton charged journalists Tuesday protesting against ban on Geo Television Network and curbs on media outside the Karachi Press Club and arrested over 150 of them including five ladies journalists.

According to reports the representatives of media were going to the Governor House to talk with the authorities when police stopped them. Chasing the journalists policemen entered in Karachi Press Club premises and started baton charge over the newsmen in the club wounding several of them.

Those arrested by the police included Geo News journalists Afzal Nadeem Doggar, Abdul Rahman, Tariq Abul Hassan, Khurshid Abbasi, Tariq Moin, Fahim Siddiqui, Raja Kamran, Najeeb Ahmed, Akhtar Minhas, Faisal Shakeel, Waseem Ahmed, Faisal Aziz, Ghulam Mustafa, Qazi Hassan, Naseem Rajpur, Junaid Mumtaz Awan, Amir Ahmed Khan, Shoaib Ahmed, Lalarukh, Raja Tariq, President Karachi Press Club Sabeehuddin Ghausi, Ahfaz-ur-Rahman, Secretary KPC Imtiaz Faran, President KUJ Shamim-ur-Rahman, treasurer Amir Latif and other leaders of Karachi journalists.

Police also baton charged and harassed the ladies journalists.

The journalists observed protest sit-in against police violence and arrests and announced to offer collective arrests against the incident.

According to reports several injured journalists have been transferred to hospitals for medical aid.

Meanwhile, the number of police and Rangers has been increased outside Karachi office of Geo Television.

The situation has become tense after arrests of several workers of Geo News.

The journalists arrested outside Karachi Press Club have been locked up at various police stations of the city.

[MirzaKamran]

Arrested journalists transferred to far-flung police stations

Updated at 1800 PST KARACHI: The journalists arrested outside Karachi Press Club during a protest rally against media curbs have been shifted to far-flung police stations of the city.

The press club is located within Frere police jurisdiction, while Artillery and Preedy police stations are nearer to the club but the arrested journalists have been locked up at Darakhshan and Docks police stations.

Muhammad Imtiaz, A.H. Khanzada, Shakeel Khan, Arbab Chandio, Raza Hassan, Arif Kazmi, Hassan Rana, Muhammad Suleman, Khawar Khan, Nawab Ali Shah, Asif Alam, Liaquat Mughal, Shams Imran, Kashif Hussain, Asghar Umar, Ali Shah, Imtiaz Chandio, Zulfiqar Sanwal Shaikh and Yousuf Khan are some other journalists arrested by the police during the protest rally.

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