by SAMSN Admin | Mar 29, 2018 | Killing, Media Rights Violations, Pakistan, Release
Pakistani journalist, Zeeshan Ashraf Butt became the second journalist killed in Pakistan this year, when he was shot dead on March 27. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) deplores the killing and calls for an immediate investigation. Zeeshan, a...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 27, 2018 | India, Killing, Media Rights Violations, Release
Sandeep Sharma and Naveen Nishchal were both killed in separate vehicle incidents in India on Monday, March 26. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the National Union of Journalists (India) condemn the killings and demand immediate and...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 26, 2018 | India, Killing, Media Rights Violations, Release
The National Union of Journalists (India) joins its state unit NUJ(Bihar) and Journalists Union of Madhya Pradesh in strongly condemning the gruesome murder of frontline journalist Brajesh Kumar working for national daily newspaper in Bihar and Sandeep Sharma working...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 26, 2018 | Arrest / Detainment, Media Rights Violations, Release, Sri Lanka
වසර අටකට අධික කාලයක් තිස්සේ යුද හමුදා පාලනය යටතේ පවතින අලම්පිල් ප්රදේශයේ භූමියක් සම්බන්ධ ගැටලූවකට අදාළව පළවන මහජන විරෝධය ඡායාරූප ගතකළ හිරු මාධ්ය ජාලයේ ප්රාදේශීය මාධ්යවේදී ෂන්මුගම් තවසීලන් යුද හමුදා භාරයට ගෙන තර්ජනාත්මකව කටයුතු කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් නිදහස් මාධ්ය...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 26, 2018 | Attack, India, Media Rights Violations, Release
Delhi police assaulted two women journalists and snatched away the camera of one while they were covering the demonstration organized by students and teachers of the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India on March 23. One male journalist was also beaten up...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 19, 2018 | Arrest / Detainment, Maldives, Media Rights Violations, Release
The Maldives Police arrested three journalists of opposition-aligned Raajje TV on March 16 and charged two of them with criminal offences for allegedly uploading videos on social media which were critical of the government. The police arrested senior video journalist...
