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Pakistan Urged to Bring Journalist's Killers to Justice

RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal

   PARIS - International media freedom watchdogs are urging Pakistani
   authorities to ensure that the killing of a journalist whose body was
   found in an irrigation waterway does not go unpunished.

   Aziz Memon's body was found with wire tied around the neck on February
   16 near his hometown of Mehrabpur, in the southwestern province of
   Sindh. The initial investigation suggested he was strangled to death
   before his body was thrown into the canal.

   In a statement on February 17, the New York-based Committee to Protect
   Journalists (CPJ) said the "murder'¦ deserves swift justice, which is
   something Pakistani authorities have repeatedly failed to deliver for
   journalists."

   A reporter for KTN TV and the newspaper Kawish, which are owned by
   Pakistan's largest Sindhi-language media group, Memon is the first
   Pakistani journalist to be killed this year, according to Reporters
   Without Borders (RSF). It said four Pakistani journalists and a blogger
   were killed last year in connection with their reporting.

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