Karachi: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday,today, arrested journalist Farhan Mallick over the content of his YouTube platform’s videos.
FIA Cyber Crime Reporting Centre Additional Director Shahzad Haider that an inquiry was initiated against Mallick around three months ago.
Regarding specific charges, the official replied by saying that Mallick had run “several programmes against the security establishment”.
Haider added that Mallick was formally arrested today after the completion of an inquiry.
Raftar issued a statement on X saying that the FIA had visited the outlet’s office without notice on Thursday and verbally summoned Mallick to appear at its office at 1pm today.
“In compliance, Mallick appeared at the designated office at the required time. However, after making him wait for hours without cause, the authorities arrested him at 6pm,” the post read.
Today is not the first time Mallick has encountered the FIA. In December, he wrote a post on X about how he was stopped from boarding a flight to Doha and was detained at Karachi Airport for over five hours.
Mallick is the founder of media agency Raftar which describes itself as a “dynamic platform dedicated to driving social change through the power of storytelling”. He is also the former news director of Samaa TV.
