by SAMSN Admin | Oct 15, 2020 | Gender, Pakistan, SAMSN Blog
The severity of online threats has promoted a collective of women journalists in Pakistan to take matters into their own hands, writes Lubna Jerar Naqvi. Attacks on women journalists are common in patriarchal societies like Pakistan with threats ranging from verbal...
by SAMSN Admin | Oct 14, 2020 | Attack, Media Rights Violations, Release, Sri Lanka
Journalists Shanmugam Thavaseelan and Kanapathipillai Kumanan, correspondents for the Tamil Guardian, were attacked by timber smugglers on October 12 when the journalists duo were working on a story on illegal deforestation and timber smuggling in the Murippu forest...
by SAMSN Admin | Oct 13, 2020 | Attack, Media Rights Violations, Release, Sri Lanka
It has been reported that two journalists who went in search of information on an alleged timber trafficking operation in the Murippu jungle area in the Mullaitivu district have been severely beaten by a group including the timber smuggler and the Free Media Movement...
by SAMSN Admin | Oct 13, 2020 | Bangladesh, Killing, Media Rights Violations, Release
Elias Mia, a correspondent of Daily Bijoy, was hacked to death on October 12 by miscreants in the Narayanganj district for allegedly exposing a criminal nexus in gas line distribution. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the brutal murder and...
by SAMSN Admin | Oct 13, 2020 | Arrest / Detainment, Media Rights Violations, Pakistan, Release
Nabeel Jakhura and Shabi Al Hassan, the president and assistant vice president of BOL Network respectively, were abducted in Karachi on October 8. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ)...
by SAMSN Admin | Oct 8, 2020 | Arrest / Detainment, India, Media Rights Violations, Release
Journalist Siddique Kappan has been arrested and booked by the Mathura police in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly instigating communal violence. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Indian affiliates the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) and National...
