by SAMSN Admin | Dec 14, 2020 | Attack, India, Media Rights Violations, Release
Police manhandled three Kashmiri journalists as they covered election polling in South Kashmir on December 10. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Indian affiliates the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) and the National Union of Journalists India...
by SAMSN Admin | Nov 12, 2020 | Attack, India, Media Rights Violations, Release
Vinay Tiwari, a journalist working for local Hindi news website Bundelkhand Times, was seriously injured in an attack allegedly by the family of Dhaurra village head and a number of other assailants in Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh. The International Federation...
by SAMSN Admin | Oct 14, 2020 | Attack, Media Rights Violations, Release, Sri Lanka
Journalists Shanmugam Thavaseelan and Kanapathipillai Kumanan, correspondents for the Tamil Guardian, were attacked by timber smugglers on October 12 when the journalists duo were working on a story on illegal deforestation and timber smuggling in the Murippu forest...
by SAMSN Admin | Oct 13, 2020 | Attack, Media Rights Violations, Release, Sri Lanka
It has been reported that two journalists who went in search of information on an alleged timber trafficking operation in the Murippu jungle area in the Mullaitivu district have been severely beaten by a group including the timber smuggler and the Free Media Movement...
by SAMSN Admin | Oct 6, 2020 | Attack, Media Rights Violations, Nepal, Release
नेपाल पत्रकार महासंघका केन्द्रीय सदस्य एवं कान्तिपुर दैनिकका सम्वाददाता अवधेशकुमार झालाई समाचार संकलनका क्रममा प्रहरी उपरीक्षक राजेन्द्र धिमालद्वारा गरिएको दुव्र्यवहार र समाचार संकलनमा रोग लगाएको घटनाप्रति नेपाल पत्रकार महासंघको गम्भीर ध्यानाकर्षण भएको छ । पछिल्लो समय...
by SAMSN Admin | Oct 6, 2020 | Attack, Media Rights Violations, Release, Sri Lanka
Derana TV journalist Indunil Wijenayake was attacked by sand-miners in the Kumbukkan Oya area of Monaragala district on October 3 while reporting on illegal sand mining in the area. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Sri Lanka affiliate the Free...
