by SAMSN Admin | Mar 1, 2017 | Attack, Media Rights Violations, Nepal, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) in condemning the incidents of attack on journalists during the political protest on February 22 in southern Nepal. The IFJ urges the Nepali government to arrest and...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 1, 2017 | Arrest / Detainment, India, Media Rights Violations, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) in welcoming the Supreme Court’s decision to grant bail to journalist Santosh Yadav after 17 months in prison on seemingly fabricated charges. The IFJ urges the government to...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 21, 2017 | Impunity, Release, Sri Lanka
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Free Media Movement (FMM), Sri Lanka, in lauding the Sri Lanka Police for arresting an army officer and two soldiers over the 2008 abduction of and assault on a prominent journalist. The Crime Investigation...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 20, 2017 | Release, Sri Lanka
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය (2017. 02. 19) බොහෝ කල් ගත වී නමුත් ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ මාධ්යවේදී කීත් නොයාර් පැහැර ගෙන ගොස් දැඩි සේ පහර දී අත්හැර දමා යෑම සම්බන්ධයෙන් සැක පිට හමුදා බුද්ධි අංශ මේජර් බුලත්වත්ත සහ සැරයන්වරයන් දෙදෙනෙකු අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීම ගැන ප්රසාදය පළ කරන නිදහස් මාධ්ය ව්යාපාරය,...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 20, 2017 | Attack, Bangladesh, Media Rights Violations, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) express concern over Bangladesh Police’s refusal to register a case in a suspicious hit-and-run incident involving a journalist in Dhaka. The IFJ demands immediate...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 20, 2017 | India, Labour rights, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the National Union of Journalists (India) express serious concern over the trend of the closure of several print editions by major newspapers and retrenching journalists and media staff in an arbitrary manner in...
