by SAMSN Admin | Sep 13, 2017 | Arrest / Detainment, India, Media Rights Violations, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses serious concern over the detainment of Kamran Yusuf, a freelance photojournalist, in Kashmir, India on September 4. The IFJ demands immediate release of the photojournalist. Yusuf, a 23-year-old native of...
by SAMSN Admin | Sep 12, 2017 | Censorship, Freedom of Expression, Gender, Impunity, Internet Freedom, Media Rights Violations, Meeting, Release, Right to Information, South Asia
South Asian journalist unions and associations affiliated to the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) resolved to build strong, united, democratic, independent, representative and self-sustaining unions...
by SAMSN Admin | Sep 11, 2017 | Media Rights Violations, Nepal, Release, Threat
आज मिति २०७४ भदौ २६ गतेको नयाँ पत्रिका राष्टिय दैनिकमा प्रकाशित ‘ग्र्याभिटी करेन्सीका नाममा नेटवर्किङ बिजनेसबाट नयाँ ठगी’ शिर्षकको समाचार लेख्ने पत्रकार उमेश पौडेललाई ‘ठीक पार्ने’ धम्की दिइएको घट्नाप्रति नेपाल पत्रकार महासंघको गम्भीर ध्यानाकर्षण भएको छ । पत्रकार...
by SAMSN Admin | Sep 7, 2017 | India, Killing, Media Rights Violations, SAMSN Blog
Madhu Bhushan, fellow-Bangalorean and feminist activist recounts her meeting with the fiery and outspoken senior journalist-activist just hours before Gauri Lankesh was shot at point blank range just outside her Bangalore home on September 5 by unknown assailants....
by SAMSN Admin | Sep 6, 2017 | India, Killing, Media Rights Violations, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists (India) in condemning the brutal killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru, India on September 5. The IFJ demands urgent action from the government to tackle...
by SAMSN Admin | Sep 5, 2017 | Media Rights Violations, Nepal, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliates the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) and the Nepal Press Union (NPU) in expressing serious concern over the defamation lawsuit intended to silence a daily newspaper in Kathmandu. The IFJ...
