Silenced

Online speech and its consequences in Pakistan, 2016 to present

Reports

What rights monitors report on Pakistan

Reports, press releases and PDFs on digital rights, human rights and internet freedom in Pakistan since 2016, from eight international and Pakistani organisations. Each one opens a page with a 400-500 word summary and a link to the full report. The list is updated every week.

1 report from Digital Rights Foundation

  1. Digital Rights Foundation

    Probing Attacks on Journalists: Investigative Analysis of PECA's Post-Amendment 2025 Cases

    Analysis ·

    This investigative analysis by the Digital Rights Foundation (DRF), a Pakistani digital rights organisation, examines how the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) has been used against journalists since its amendment in January 2025. Its central argument is that PECA, introduced in…

Summaries are drawn automatically from each report's own text: the sentences are the organisation's words, chosen to represent the report, not a rewording. Where an editor wrote the summary, the report's page says so. Silenced is not affiliated with any of these organisations; always read the full report before quoting it.