by SAMSN Admin | Aug 29, 2019 | Economic pressure, Labour rights, News, Pakistan, Release
Dunya News has sacked 70 journalists from its Lahore headquarters as part of a plan to downsize the company. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) have strongly criticized the mass...
by SAMSN Admin | Aug 26, 2019 | Access to Information, Censorship, Freedom of Expression, India, News, Politics, Release
The Indian Journalists Union and its three nominated Members to the Press Council of India representing media organisations are shocked and gravely troubled at the PCI Chairman Justice (Retd) C K Prasad’s blatant violation of the Council rules, plus his actions have...
by SAMSN Admin | Aug 22, 2019 | Freedom of Expression, Harassment, Human Rights, India, News, Politics, Release
The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) and its affiliate Journalists Union of Assam (JUA) has expressed serious concern over propaganda under the “NRC” Authority logo to malign and brand a group of renowned journalists from across the country as anti-national for their...
by SAMSN Admin | Aug 21, 2019 | Access to Information, Freedom of Expression, India, Internet Freedom, News, Politics, Release, Sri Lanka
The Free Media Movement strongly condemns the steps taken pertaining to media censorship in Jammu and Kashmir parallel to the Indian government’s unilateral decision on 4th August regarding the ownership of the disputed Jammu and Kashmir state. In the first week...
by SAMSN Admin | Aug 19, 2019 | Access to Information, Freedom of Expression, India, Internet Freedom, News, Politics, Release, Sri Lanka
See the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association statement here.
by SAMSN Admin | Aug 19, 2019 | Censorship, Freedom of Expression, Harassment, India, Media Rights Violations, News, Release
The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) has condemned the high handedness of the Meghalaya police to browbeat the news portal Northeast Now to remove a news item and disclose its sources. Worse, the police has asserted that media houses had no journalistic privilege or any...
