by SAMSN Admin | Oct 5, 2020 | Attack, Media Rights Violations, Release, Sri Lanka
The Free Media Movement strongly condemns the attack carried out on the Derana TV journalist Indunil Wijenayake in Monaragala, while he was there to cover an incident of unauthorized sand mining in the Kumbukkan Oya. According to reports we have received, journalist...
by SAMSN Admin | Sep 29, 2020 | Attack, India, Media Rights Violations, Release
Kamal Shukla, the editor of Bhumkal Samachar magazine and head of the Patrakar Suraksha Kanoon Sanyukt Sangharsh Samiti, an organisation to protect journalists, was assaulted and threatened by ruling party cadres in the Kanker district of Chhattisgarh. The...
by SAMSN Admin | Sep 24, 2020 | Attack, Media Rights Violations, Nepal, Release
नेपाल प्रेस युनियनका पूर्व केन्द्रीय सदस्य तथा क्रियाशिल पत्रकार शिव देवकोटामाथि नुवाकोटको सदरमुकाम विदुरस्थित एक होटलमा गरिएको आक्रमण र कुटपिटप्रति नेपाल प्रेस युनियनको गम्भिर ध्यानाकर्षण भएको छ । नेपाल पत्रकार महासंघमा गैह्रपत्रकारहरुको सदस्यता खारेजीको पक्षमा आवाज...
by SAMSN Admin | Sep 23, 2020 | Attack, Harassment, India, Media Regulations, Media Rights Violations, Release
The cyber wing of the Jammu and Kashmir Police summoned and abused Auqib Javeed, a Kashmir based journalist, over a news report about police intimidation of social media users. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its India affiliate Indian...
by SAMSN Admin | Sep 14, 2020 | Attack, Media Rights Violations, Nepal, Release, Threat
समाचारको विषयलाई लिएर धनगढीस्थित दिनेश सञ्चारगृहमा केही व्यक्ति प्रवेश गरी गरिएको आक्रमण र पत्रकार कुटपिटको घटनाप्रति नेपाल पत्रकार महासंघको गम्भीर ध्यानाकर्षण भएको छ । महासंघ कैलाली शाखाका अनुसार धनगढी थुनुवा कक्षभित्रै एक युवकले आत्महत्या गरेको विषयमा प्रकाशित...
by SAMSN Admin | Sep 10, 2020 | Attack, Gender, Harassment, Killing, Media Rights Violations, Online Harassment, Pakistan, Politics, Release
ore than 150 Pakistani women journalists released a statement on September 7 detailing the gender-based attacks that are increasingly impacting their safety and ability to work. Titled ‘Together Against Digital Abuse’, the statement also puts forward a list of demands...
