by SAMSN Admin | Dec 1, 2016 | Bangladesh, Impunity, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) welcome the court verdict on November 30 convicting and sentencing nine persons to life in prison for the 2004 murder of journalist Manik Saha. The Khulna...
by SAMSN Admin | Nov 15, 2016 | Impunity, India, Media Regulations, SAMSN Blog
Journalists in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh have been under siege for the past several decades while living and reporting on the conflict between the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) and the Government of India, with the vast majority of adivasi...
by SAMSN Admin | Nov 11, 2016 | Impunity, Pakistan, SAMSN Blog
Do you know that only 13 percent of the world population enjoys a free press? According to Freedom House report “Press Freedom in 2016” the safety of journalists is guaranteed in just 13 percent of the world’s population. 41 percent of world’s population has a partly...
by SAMSN Admin | Nov 7, 2016 | Impunity, Nepal
Dekendra Raj Thapa was a fearless journalist working for state-run Radio Nepal in Dailekh district in western Nepal. During the height of the armed conflict between the Maoist rebels and the monarchy, on June 23, 2004, he was abducted by the Maoists from Channa Bazar....
by SAMSN Admin | Nov 2, 2016 | Impunity, India, Release
Thousands of journalists across the country on Wednesday observed ‘International Day against Impunity on crimes against Journalists’ by observing two minutes silence to commemorate the memory of the journalists killed on the line of duty following the call given by...
by SAMSN Admin | Nov 2, 2016 | Impunity, India, Pakistan, Release
The South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN), together with the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), today issued a stern call to governments in the region to make greater efforts to address toxic levels of impunity that continue to blight journalism and...
