by SAMSN Admin | Feb 25, 2016 | Freedom of Expression, India, SAMSN Blog
Visualize this. For two days, journalists covering news within the premises of the Patiala House Courts in Delhi were repeatedly attacked. They were targeted; and their mobile phones and tablets grabbed and smashed. Women journalists were among those who were...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 24, 2016 | Freedom of Expression, Maldives, SAMSN Blog
Harassed, arrested, prosecuted and even violently attacked, journalism has never seen such gloomy days in Maldives since an iron clad monopoly on Freedom of Speech and Expression, and Freedom of the Media was released from its shackles in the late 2000s. Though the...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 21, 2016 | Attack, Media Rights Violations, Nepal, Release
पर्साको बीरगञ्जस्थित नारायणी एफएममा अज्ञात समुहले आक्रमण गरेको घटनाप्रति नेपाल पत्रकार महासंघको ध्यानाकर्षण भएको छ । गएराति १ः०० बजे हतियारसहित आएका अज्ञात समूहले कार्यालयको चाबी मागेको थियो । एफएमका सुरक्षा गार्डले चावी नदिएपछि आक्रमण गर्दै उक्त समुहले कार्यालयको...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 21, 2016 | Harassment, Media Rights Violations, Nepal, Release
नेपाल पत्रकार महासंघका सभासद् एवं प्रेस काउन्सिल नेपालका सदस्य मनऋषि धिताल सम्पादक÷प्रकाश रहेका तथां महासंघका केन्द्रीय सदस्य सरिता ढकाल सञ्चालक रहनुभएकी ‘जनादेश साप्ताहिक’ को कार्यालयमा रहेको कम्प्यूटरलगायतका सामग्री कब्जा गरिएको घटनाप्रति नेपाल पत्रकार महासंघको...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 17, 2016 | Attack, India, Media Rights Violations, Release
फरवरी 16, 2016 देश के विभिन्न राज्यों में पत्रकारों पर हमलों के खिलाफ दिल्ली में नेशनल यूनियन आॅफ जर्नलिस्ट्स (इंडिया) ने विरोध जताया और सरकार से जर्नलिस्ट्स प्रोटेक्शन एक्ट बनाने की मांग की। नेशनल यूनियन आफ जर्नलिस्ट्स (इंडिया) के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष रासबिहारी की...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 17, 2016 | Bangladesh, Harassment, Media Rights Violations, SAMSN Blog
“Be the best wherever you go,” this six-word sentence from him, I’m sure, will remain in my memories even if I forcefully bump my head on an oak tree! I spent little over a couple of years working under Mahfuz Anam, the tall and bold editor of The...
