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...
by SAMSN Admin | Nov 26, 2014 | India, Killing, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is saddened by the death of Shivam Bhatt, a journalist with India’s Zee News TV in a car accident on November 20 in Barwala, Haryana, India. According to reports, the 24-year-old reporter died when the vehicle he was...
by SAMSN Admin | Nov 24, 2014 | Attack, India, Media Rights Violations, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists, India (NUJI) in condemning the police atrocities on journalists at Barwala, Hisar in the Haryana state, in north-eastern India on November 18. According to...
by SAMSN Admin | Nov 24, 2014 | Attack, Media Rights Violations, Nepal, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliates the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) and the Nepal Press Union (NPU) is condemning the attack on a journalist in Chitwan, central Nepal on November 20. Two unidentified people on a motorbike...
by SAMSN Admin | Nov 6, 2014 | Impunity, Maldives, Missing, SAMSN Blog
This week marks 3 months since 28-year-old Maldivian journalist Ahmed Rilwan Abdulla (@moyameehaa) was reported missing to police, after being last seen in the early morning of Friday 8 August. Rilwan, employed by Minivan News, had been working on a number of...
by SAMSN Admin | Nov 6, 2014 | Killing, Media Rights Violations, Pakistan, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) deplore the brutal assassination of a journalist in Sindh province yesterday and demand the immediate arrest and persecution of the murderers. The IFJ...