Pakistan bars entry of CPJ Coordinator

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Pakistan’s immigration authorities barred entry of Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) Asia Programme Coordinator Steven Butler, saying that his name had been placed on a ‘stop list’, a press statement issued by the body said on Thursday.
“Last [Wednesday] night, Pakistani immigration authorities denied entry to CPJ Asia Programme Coordinator Steven Butler, citing a blacklist managed by the Ministry of Interior,” the CPJ statement said.

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