by SAMSN Admin | Aug 20, 2021 | Attack, India, Media Rights Violations, Release
Jammu and Kashmir police chased a group of journalists and attacked them with batons while they were covering the Muharram procession in Srinagar on August 17. The International Federation of Journalists (IF) and its Indian affiliates, the Indian Journalists Union...
by SAMSN Admin | Jul 21, 2021 | India, Online Harassment, Release, Right to Information
The Indian Journalists Union expresses grave concern over the surveillance of at least 40 journalists, among 300 others, including Opposition leaders, ministers, constitutional authorities, activists, through hacking of their phones by Israeli Pegasus spyware. The...
by SAMSN Admin | Jun 18, 2021 | Harassment, India, Media Rights Violations, Release
Uttar Pradesh police initiated a criminal investigation against independent news- website The Wire and three journalists Rana Ayyub, Saba Naqvi, and Mohammed Zubair on June 15 for sharing a video. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Indian...
by SAMSN Admin | Jun 18, 2021 | India, Killing, Media Rights Violations, Release
Sulabh Srivastava, a journalist affiliated with the private television channel ABP News, died a day after he filed complaints to Uttar Pradesh Police seeking protection. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Indian affiliates, Indian Journalists...
by SAMSN Admin | Jun 3, 2021 | Freedom of Expression, India, Media Rights Violations, Release
The Indian Journalists Union welcomes the Supreme Court stay on coercive action by the Andhra Pradesh police against two Telugu news channels, TV 5 and ABN Andhrajyoti and more importantly its observation that the sedition law “requires interpretation, particularly in...
by SAMSN Admin | May 4, 2021 | Freedom of Expression, India, Reaching Out, Release
On World Press Freedom Day today, the Indian Journalists Union drew the Union government’s urgent attention to the grim fact that over hundred journalists have lost their lives this past year, 45 alone in the second wave of the pandemic across the country. In a...
