by SAMSN Admin | May 8, 2019 | Access to Information, Attack, Censorship, Freedom of Expression, India, Media Rights Violations, Release
As India goes to the polls, attacks on journalists in the state of West Bengal were reported on Monday, May 6. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the National Union of Journalists (India) have condemned the violence and called on state...
by SAMSN Admin | Apr 10, 2019 | Arrest / Detainment, Freedom of Expression, Human Rights, India, Release
The Indian Journalists Union (IJU), the largest and most representative organisation of working journalists in the country has hailed the Manipur High Court order releasing journalist Kishorchandra Wangkhem, who is in jail since November 21.The division bench of the...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 25, 2019 | Freedom of Expression, Gender, Harassment, India, Internet Freedom, Media Rights Violations, Online Harassment, Release
Indian police have arrested four for stalking and trolling journalist, Barkha Dutt. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) welcome the arrests and call on authorities to ensure efforts to end the online...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 25, 2019 | Gender, Harassment, India, Internet Freedom, Media Rights Violations, Online Harassment, Release
The Indian Journalists Union (IJU), strongly condemned stalking and trolling of senior journalist Barkha Dutt by some unidentified troll army. In a FIR filed with the Delhi Police Cyber Crime Cell under various sections of the IPC and IT Act, she complained that she...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 14, 2019 | Freedom of Expression, Harassment, India, Release, Threat
The editor and publisher of Shillong Times were fined for contempt of court, while another journalist was threatened with legal action over their reporting. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) have...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 12, 2019 | Economic pressure, Freedom of Expression, India, Release, Right to Information
The Indian Journalists Union (UU), the largest and most representative organisation of working joumalists in the country, strongly condemned withholding of state government advertisements to two English dailies, Greater Kashmir and Kashmir Reader based in Srinagar, by...
