by SAMSN Admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Freedom of Expression, Impunity, India, Release
A high level delegation of National Union of Journalists (India) called on President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee and demanded enactment of a Journalists Protection Law and constitution of Media Commission and Media Council. The delegation, led by NUJ(I) president...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Freedom of Expression, India, Release
नेशनल यूनियन ऑफ जर्नलिस्ट्स (इंडिया) ने राष्ट्रपति श्री प्रणब मुखर्जी को पत्रकार सुरक्षा कानून बनाने, मीडिया कमीशन व मीडिया काउंसिल के गठन और पत्रकारों की अन्य समस्याओं को लेकर एक ज्ञापन सौंपा। एनयूजे के अध्यक्ष रास बिहारी की अगुवाई में आठ सदस्यीय प्रतिनिधिमंडल ने...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Harassment, India, Media Rights Violations, Release
The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) and its affiliate Kerala Journalists Union (KJU) strongly condemned the abuse telephone calls to a News Anchor of Malayalam TV News Channel Asianet News by alleged sympathizers and activists of some Hindutva outfits owing allegiance...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 25, 2016 | Freedom of Expression, India, SAMSN Blog
Visualize this. For two days, journalists covering news within the premises of the Patiala House Courts in Delhi were repeatedly attacked. They were targeted; and their mobile phones and tablets grabbed and smashed. Women journalists were among those who were...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 24, 2016 | Freedom of Expression, Maldives, SAMSN Blog
Harassed, arrested, prosecuted and even violently attacked, journalism has never seen such gloomy days in Maldives since an iron clad monopoly on Freedom of Speech and Expression, and Freedom of the Media was released from its shackles in the late 2000s. Though the...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 21, 2016 | Attack, Media Rights Violations, Nepal, Release
पर्साको बीरगञ्जस्थित नारायणी एफएममा अज्ञात समुहले आक्रमण गरेको घटनाप्रति नेपाल पत्रकार महासंघको ध्यानाकर्षण भएको छ । गएराति १ः०० बजे हतियारसहित आएका अज्ञात समूहले कार्यालयको चाबी मागेको थियो । एफएमका सुरक्षा गार्डले चावी नदिएपछि आक्रमण गर्दै उक्त समुहले कार्यालयको...
