by SAMSN Admin | Mar 14, 2018 | Impunity, India, Release
Over six months after the cold-blooded murder of senior journalist Gauri Lankesh in Bangalore, India, an arrest was made of the first accused KT Naveen Kumar. The IFJ urges the Indian authorities to step up the investigation to arrest and prosecute all responsible...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 5, 2018 | Impunity, Release, Sri Lanka
ජනමාධ්යවේදීන්ට එරෙහි අපරාධ සම්බන්ධයෙන් සිදු කරන ලද පරික්ෂණ කටයුතු තර්කානුකූල අවසානයක් කරා ගෙන යාමට මෙතෙක් රජය මෙතෙක් අපොහොසත්විීම පිළිබඳව, දැඩි කනස්සල්ල පළකරන නිදහස් මාධ්ය ව්යාපාරය එම අපරාධවලට වගකිවයුත්තන්ට එරෙහිව නීිතිය ක්රියාත්මක කිරිම තවදුරටත් පමා නොකොට...
by SAMSN Admin | Jan 31, 2018 | Impunity, SAMSN Blog, Sri Lanka
Let us light a lamp for suffering journalists in Sri Lanka to mark three years of the Yaha Palana government, says the Free Media Movement Sri Lankan journalists have suffered in many ways while performing their professional duties and have been demanding that justice...
by SAMSN Admin | Jan 30, 2018 | Impunity, SAMSN Blog, Sri Lanka
For several years, the Free Media Movement (FMM) of Sri Lanka and free expression advocates have dubbed January as “Black January”. This was in the context of a large number of journalists killed, disappeared, assaulted, as well as attacks on media institutions – all...
by SAMSN Admin | Nov 20, 2017 | Afghanistan, Feature, Impunity, Killing, Media Rights Violations, Reaching Out, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Afghan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) in condemning the suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, November 16 that killed a television cameraman and many others. The IFJ...
by SAMSN Admin | Nov 13, 2017 | Afghanistan, Impunity, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Afghan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) in demanding justice for 73 journalists and media workers killed in Afghanistan since 1994 and an end to impunity for crimes against...
