by SAMSN Admin | Oct 1, 2020 | India, Media Regulations, Media Rights Violations, Release
The government in Karnataka has shutdown Power TV, a private broadcaster, in retaliation for the broadcaster’s reports on corruption allegations against the chief minister Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa and his family members. The International Federation of...
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 28, 2020 | Killing, Media Rights Violations, Pakistan, Release
Pakistani journalist Abid Hussain Abidi, affiliated with local newspaper Jurm-o- Saza, was shot dead in Mandi Bahaudin in the Malikwal district on September 25 by unidentified gunmen. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Pakistan affiliate the...
by SAMSN Admin | Sep 25, 2020 | Arrest / Detainment, Media Regulations, Media Rights Violations, Pakistan, Release
Ehtisham Kiyani, a reporter for Channel 24 was arrested on false charges for allegedly bearing weapons in Islamabad’s High Court. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Pakistan affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) condemn his...
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 24, 2020 | Arrest / Detainment, Media Regulations, Media Rights Violations, Pakistan, Reaching Out, Release
Journalists Asad Toor, Bilal Farooqi, and Absar Alam have all been charged with sedition between September 11 and September 16 for publishing allegedy ‘objectionable’ and ‘derogatory’ material online. The charges have been set under Pakistan’s sweeping 2016 Prevention...
