by SAMSN Admin | Sep 5, 2019 | Attack, Impunity, India, Media Rights Violations, News, Release
Senior police assaulted several journalists as they covered violent clashes in Barrackpore, a city in West Bengal, on Sunday, September 1. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in condemning the...
by SAMSN Admin | Sep 5, 2019 | Attack, India, Media Rights Violations, News, Release
The Indian Journalists Union strongly condemns the Uttar Pradesh government for filing an FIR against a journalist in Mirzapur district for reporting the truth and demands that it be withdrawn forthwith. Pawan Jaiswal, with Hindi publication Jansandesh, had shot a...
by SAMSN Admin | Sep 5, 2019 | Attack, India, Media Rights Violations, News, Release
New Delhi September 3, 2017 :- The National Union of Journalists (India) strongly condemned the incident took place in Barrackpore, West Bengal. According to the information, West Bengal Police Deputy Commissioner was caught on camera openly assaulting journalists who...
by SAMSN Admin | Sep 5, 2019 | Economic pressure, Labour rights, Media Rights Violations, News, Pakistan, Release
The leaders of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and hundreds of journalists and media workers marched on and locked down the Dunya News group headquarters in Lahore, the capital of Punjab province, on Tuesday 3 September to protest against the massive...
by SAMSN Admin | Sep 5, 2019 | Impunity, Killing, Media Rights Violations, News, Pakistan, Release
Mirza Waseem Baig, a journalist working for 92 News, was killed by unidentified assailants in Punjab, a province of eastern Pakistan, on Friday 30 August 2019, following his reporting on local gangs activities. The International Federation of Journalists stands with...
by SAMSN Admin | Aug 19, 2019 | Censorship, Freedom of Expression, Harassment, India, Media Rights Violations, News, Release
The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) has condemned the high handedness of the Meghalaya police to browbeat the news portal Northeast Now to remove a news item and disclose its sources. Worse, the police has asserted that media houses had no journalistic privilege or any...
