A journalist recovers after the confrontation with police |
More than 100 journalists protesting against media restrictions and emergency rule have been arrested in Pakistan, eyewitnesses say.
Most were held in Karachi and several detained in Hyderabad.
Police baton-charged the Karachi journalists after they tried to stage a protest march. Some of them were hurt.
When President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule on 3 November, radio and TV news was banned, as was criticism of the government.
On Monday, Democracy Now! spoke with Mazhar Abbas, a Pakistani TV journalist and secretary-general of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists.