by SAMSN Admin | Dec 11, 2014 | Harassment, Media Rights Violations, Pakistan, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned by the growing number of attacks against female journalists in Pakistan in recent months. On December 8, a female journalist was attacked covering a political rally in Faisalabad, in Punjab, Pakistan, the...
by SAMSN Admin | Dec 11, 2014 | Media Rights Violations, Pakistan, Threat
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses its serious concerns towards the safety of the senior leader of the IFJ affiliate, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), in Lahore, Pakistan after the Punjab Police decided to withdraw police...
by SAMSN Admin | Dec 3, 2014 | Bangladesh, Freedom of Expression, Release, Reports
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is shocked by the Bangladesh court’s conviction this week of Dhaka-based British journalist David Bergman on contempt for questioning the official death toll of 1971 liberation war. A special war crimes court, the...
by SAMSN Admin | Dec 1, 2014 | Attack, Media Rights Violations, Pakistan, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) strongly condemn the attacks on Digital Satellite News Gathering (DSNG) equipment of various television stations on Islamabad on Sunday, November 30. A number of...
by SAMSN Admin | Dec 1, 2014 | Economic pressure, Labour rights, Pakistan, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) are deeply saddened by the death of a Pakistani media worker and demand immediate action on the television station who have not paid his salary for four months. Imran...
by SAMSN Admin | Nov 28, 2014 | Alert, Attack, India, Killing, Media Rights Violations
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and it’s affiliate the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) condemn the brutal murder of a senior journalist in Guntur of Andra Pradesh, in south eastern India on early hours of Wednesday, November 26. MVN Shankar, 53, a...
