by SAMSN Admin | Feb 4, 2016 | Freedom of Expression, Killing, Media Rights Violations, Release, South Asia
The International Federation of Journalists today published its 25th report on journalists and media staff killed since 1990. The report lists 2297 media fatalities due to violence in journalism, including 112 killed in 2015 alone. From double digits at the start of...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 3, 2016 | Killing, Media Rights Violations, Pakistan, SAMSN Blog
Senior Tribal journalist and former president of Tribal Union of Journalists Zaman Mehsud was shot and killed a day after Pakistani journalists observed International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists in November, 2015. [Since Mehsud’s murder,...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 1, 2016 | Afghanistan, Killing, Media Rights Violations, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Afghanistan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) in condemning the murder of a senior broadcast journalist in eastern Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, on January 29. The IFJ urges the...
by SAMSN Admin | Jan 21, 2016 | Afghanistan, Killing, Media Rights Violations, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Afghanistan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) and the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) in condemning the suicide bomb attack on a civilian bus carrying at least 30 media...
by SAMSN Admin | Jan 20, 2016 | Killing, Media Rights Violations, Pakistan, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) condemn the killing of two journalists in the past week in the troubled Khyber-Pakhtunhkhwa province in Pakistan’s north-west. The IFJ demands...
by SAMSN Admin | Jan 1, 2016 | Killing, Media Rights Violations, Release, Reports and Publications, South Asia
2015 has been another deadly year for journalists, with at least 109 journalists and media staff killed in targeted killings, bomb attacks and cross-fire incidents, according to the annual report published today by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)....
