{"id":9597,"date":"2026-05-07T05:44:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=9597"},"modified":"2026-05-07T05:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:44:24","slug":"ali-zafar-wins-defamation-case-against-meesha-shafi-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/05\/07\/ali-zafar-wins-defamation-case-against-meesha-shafi-why-it-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Zafar wins defamation case against Meesha Shafi: Why it matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Pakistani court has ruled in favor of actor Ali Zafar in a high-profile defamation lawsuit against singer Meesha Shafi. Shafi had originally accused Zafar of sexual harassment in 2018, a landmark case that became a foundational pillar of Pakistan\u2019s #MeToo movement. The court determined that Shafi\u2019s allegations were unproven and constituted actionable defamation, explicitly ordering her to cease repeating the claims. Shafi&#8217;s legal representation plans to appeal the decision. Meanwhile, Shafi&#8217;s legal team warn that this ruling sets a dangerous precedent that could silence future survivors of sexual harassment by weaponizing defamation laws against them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> April 1, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/4\/1\/ali-zafar-wins-defamation-case-against-meesha-shafi-why-it-matters\">aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pakistani court has ruled in favor of actor Ali Zafar in a high-profile defamation lawsuit against singer Meesha Shafi. Shafi had originally accused Zafar of sexual harassment in 2018, a landmark case that became a foundational pillar of Pakistan\u2019s #MeToo movement. The court determined that Shafi\u2019s allegations were unproven and constituted actionable defamation, explicitly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":9584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-equality","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9672,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597\/revisions\/9672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}