by SAMSN Admin | Jul 7, 2020 | Gender, Harassment, India, Media Rights Violations, Release, Threat
Rana Ayyub’s social media profiles have been flooded with rape and death threats after she wrote posts about a Kashmiri victim killed by the Indian police. The IFJ has welcomed Mumbai police’s decision to start an investigation immediately and have called...
by SAMSN Admin | Jul 6, 2020 | Media Rights Violations, SAMSN Blog, Sri Lanka
Political upheavals in Sri Lanka have given rise to new challenges. To protect media freedom, journalists and media workers must focus on collective action, writes Viranjana Herath. Sri Lanka, a tiny island in the Indian Ocean but unfortunately a large dot on the...
by SAMSN Admin | Jun 19, 2020 | India, Media Rights Violations, Politics, Release
Police lodged a First Information Report (FIR) against Supriya Sharma, the executive editor of news portal Scroll.in for her report on the lockdown in India’s prime minister Narendra Modi’s constituency. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its...
by SAMSN Admin | Jun 19, 2020 | Freedom of Expression, India, Labour rights, Media Regulations, Media Rights Violations, Politics
Since the Indian government imposed Covid-19 restrictions on March 25, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has recorded 17 legal cases brought against journalists in India. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the National...
by SAMSN Admin | Jun 16, 2020 | Impunity, Killing, Media Rights Violations, Pakistan, Release
Nearly a decade after the murder of Geo News journalist Wali Khan Babar, Pakistan police finally arrested one of his murderers ‘at large’ in an operation on June 15. The International federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Pakistan affiliate the Pakistan Federal...
by SAMSN Admin | Jun 15, 2020 | Harassment, Media Rights Violations, Nepal, Release, Threat
समाचारको विषयलाईलिएर ‘काठमाडौं प्रेस डटकम’ का प्रवन्ध सम्पादक गोविन्द परियारलाई सुमेग ट्राभस एसेन्सीका सञ्चालक मेघ केसीले अपशब्द प्रयोग गर्दै धम्की दिएको घटनाप्रति नेपाल पत्रकार महासंघको गम्भीर ध्यानाकर्षण भएको छ । प्रवन्ध सम्पादक परियारका अनुसार काठमाडौं प्रेसले जेठ...
