Justice remains elusive six months after the killing of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif in Kenya on Oct. 23, 2022. 'This was a targeted killing,' his wife of 11 years, Javeria Siddique, told pressfreedom. MsReads
, a Pakistan government fact-finding team found that the Kenyan police portrayal of the killing as a case of mistaken identity was “full of contradictions” and that the involvement of “characters in Kenya, Dubai, and Pakistan in this assassination cannot be ruled out.
Siddique, a freelance journalist and photographer, spoke with CPJ about the lack of justice for her husband and her hopes for how the international community can help. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.He covered mainly defense-related stories and then investigative journalism. Even he faced social media
in the Imran Khan era. But things completely changed when the government shifted from Imran Khan to [current Prime Minister] Shehbaz [Sharif]. [Arshad] was booked in 16 fake cases of treason and sedition. He was going to courts daily. He was not willing to leave the country. I have noticed so many plainclothes people outside our house from CCTV cameras who were spying on him and wanted to know about his movement from office to house. I remember on those days, his movement was only confined to the office and the house, and he was not meeting that many people.
He left suddenly, and he called me from the airport [en route to Dubai]. He said, “I am leaving; no need to worry, just relocate and save your gadgets. Put your cash and jewelry somewhere safe.”Someone from the Pakistani embassy and someone from Dubai police came into his hotel and said to him, leave the country. Otherwise, they were going to deport him back to Pakistan.
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