by SAMSN Admin | Feb 2, 2018 | Media Rights Violations, Release, Sri Lanka, Threat
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Free Media Movement (FMM), Sri Lanka in condemning the intimidation of two journalists, forcing them to stop covering a political rally in Badulla, Uva Province in central Sri Lanka on January 28. The IFJ...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 1, 2018 | Killing, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today launched its full annual report on journalists and media staff killed in 2017, which details the killings of 82 journalists and media staff recorded on the list published on 31 December 2017. Read the full...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 1, 2018 | Killing, SAMSN Blog, South Asia
Ujjwal Acharya, IFJ’s South Asia co-ordinator reminds us why the IFJ’s annual Killed List is not a macabre roll call from a morgue, but a reminder of why we must ensure that killers of journalists are brought to justice. I monitor press freedom and the media rights...
by SAMSN Admin | Jan 31, 2018 | Impunity, SAMSN Blog, Sri Lanka
Let us light a lamp for suffering journalists in Sri Lanka to mark three years of the Yaha Palana government, says the Free Media Movement Sri Lankan journalists have suffered in many ways while performing their professional duties and have been demanding that justice...
by SAMSN Admin | Jan 30, 2018 | Bangladesh, Freedom of Expression, Media Regulations, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) express serious concerns over the provisions curtailing the freedom of expression in the draft of the Digital Security Act 2018. The IFJ demands that the...
by SAMSN Admin | Jan 30, 2018 | Impunity, SAMSN Blog, Sri Lanka
For several years, the Free Media Movement (FMM) of Sri Lanka and free expression advocates have dubbed January as “Black January”. This was in the context of a large number of journalists killed, disappeared, assaulted, as well as attacks on media institutions – all...
