by SAMSN Admin | May 3, 2015 | Feature, Freedom of Expression, Reports and Publications, Sri Lanka
The Northern Province, one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, was temporarily merged with the Eastern Province between 1988 and 2006. The North Eastern province was a theatre of war between the Government of Sri Lanka and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam...
by SAMSN Admin | May 3, 2015 | Feature, Freedom of Expression, India, Reports and Publications
The Indian-administered Kashmir Valley has been reeling under trouble for almost three decades. In late 1989, the armed rebellion that broke out has consumed thousands of human lives so far. Over the past 25 years, media in Jammu and Kashmir has walked on a razor’s...
by SAMSN Admin | May 3, 2015 | Freedom of Expression, Pakistan, Reports and Publications
Formerly the North West Frontier Province, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) is the third largest of Pakistan’s four provinces in terms of its population and economy and has its own provincial government and independent provincial assembly. The Federally Administered Tribal...
by SAMSN Admin | May 3, 2015 | Feature, Freedom of Expression, Pakistan, Reports and Publications
Over the last two decades independent journalism has been difficult in most parts of Pakistan but reporting from Balochistan has been particularly challenging due to multiple threats from various quarters – Baloch nationalists and separatists as well as security and...
by SAMSN Admin | Apr 30, 2015 | Censorship, Freedom of Expression, Maldives, Media Ownership, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Maldives Journalists Association (MJA) condemns the Maldivian government’s moves to take control of the national public broadcaster on April 29 as an attack on the democracy’s press freedom. On...
by IFJ Asia Pacific | Apr 29, 2015 | SAMSN Blog, Sri Lanka
Today officially marks the end of an ambitious 100-day reform period announced by Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena shortly after snatching a surprise victory over former leader Mahinda Rajapaksa in the country’s Jan. 8 presidential vote. Rajapaksa was once...
