by SAMSN Admin | May 26, 2020 | Economic pressure, India, Labour rights, Media Rights Violations, Release, Trade Union Rights
The National Union of Journalists (India) has sought immediate intervention of the Government of India to put a stop to the ongoing large-scale retrenchment of working journalists and other coercive measures of the media houses in the under the belt of COVID19...
by SAMSN Admin | May 25, 2020 | Economic pressure, Freedom of Expression, India, Labour rights, Release
Kolkata-based English daily The Telegraph announced the shutdown of its Guwahati edition, asking staff to resign by May 31, citing the economic pressures of Covid-19. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Indian affiliate, the National Union of...
by SAMSN Admin | May 21, 2020 | Censorship, Freedom of Expression, India, Media Regulations
New Delhi May 20, 2020: The National Union of Journalists (India) expresses grave concern over rising cases of State governments intimidating, harassing and detaining journalists by misusing the sedition law as well as Disaster Management Act in Uttar Pradesh. NUJ(I)...
by SAMSN Admin | May 20, 2020 | Harassment, India, Media Rights Violations, Media Rights Violations, Release
The Uttar Pradesh (UP) government has filed a First Information Report (FIR) against Today 24 news journalist Ravindra Saxena for his report highlighting the mismanagement of a quarantine centre in the Sitapur district. The International Federation of Journalists...
by SAMSN Admin | May 14, 2020 | Media Rights Violations, Media Rights Violations, Nepal, Release, Threat
नेपाल पत्रकार महासंघका पूर्वकोषाध्यक्ष एवं जनकपुरस्थितरेडियो जनकपुर ९७ मेघाहर्जका सञ्चालक शीतल साहलाई प्रसारित समाचारको विषयलाई लिएर प्रादेशिकअस्पताल जनकपुरका कर्मचारीले भौतिक कारबाहीको धम्की दिइएको घटनाप्रति नेपाल पत्रकारमहासंघको गम्भीर ध्यानाकर्षण भएको छ । महासंघ...
by SAMSN Admin | May 14, 2020 | Arrest / Detainment, India, Media Regulations, Media Rights Violations, Release
National Union of Journalists (NUJ-I) has expressed deep concern over the arrest of an editor of a news portal in Gujarat on concocted sedition charge. As per the newspaper report, Dhaval Patel, editor and owner of news portal – ‘Face of the Nation’...
