A year later he won an Irish national media award for Social and Campaigning Journalism and moved to Kenya to work as a freelance journalist.

[2] On 9 May 2013, Walsh learned by letter that the Pakistan Ministry of Interior, citing "undesirable activities", cancelled his visas that had been valid until January 2014 and he had 72 hours to leave the country.

On 11 May 2013, while he was in public reporting on Pakistan's general election and voting behaviour in Lahore, state security officials detained him in a hotel and escorted him to the airport the following morning.

The New York Times and other international media organisations protested his expulsion,[3] which was seen as counter to Pakistan's current policy on democracy and freedom of the press.

[2] In March 2014 Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif assured a visiting delegation from the Committee to Protect Journalists that an "immediate review" of incident would be conducted.

Rather than trying to stop the Egyptian government or assist the reporter, the official believed, the Trump administration intended to sit on the information and let the arrest be carried out.