by SAMSN Admin | Feb 4, 2021 | Harassment, India, Media Regulations, Media Rights Violations, Release
The Indian Journalists Union expresses grave concern over the rising instances of undue haste being shown by Uttar Pradesh government and its Police in targeting journalists and booking them under sedition laws. In past 48 hours, there were two such instances. One,...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 3, 2021 | Impunity, Reaching Out, Release, Sri Lanka
The Free Media Movement, commemorating ‘Black January’ that agitates to see justice for crimes against journalists, now state that it has become a cause that needs to be passed on from generation to generation. A government that promised Justice has faded away without...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 1, 2021 | Killing, Media Regulations, Media Rights Violations, Pakistan, Release
Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was previously convicted in the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl, is set to walk free after Pakistan’s Supreme Court on ordered his release January 28. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)...
by SAMSN Admin | Jan 22, 2021 | Arrest / Detainment, India, Media Regulations, Media Rights Violations, Release
A Gujarat court has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against senior Indian journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta following the filing of a defamation case by mining giant the Adani Group. The case pertains to an article Thakurta co-authored about Adani in 2017. The...
by SAMSN Admin | Jan 22, 2021 | Bangladesh, Killing, Media Rights Violations, Release
Five men have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of journalist Humayun Kabir Balu, sixteen years after he was killed in a targeted explosion in Khulna in 2004. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) welcomes the conviction of the killers and...
by SAMSN Admin | Jan 19, 2021 | Afghanistan, Attack, Media Rights Violations, Release
A mob of nearly a dozen people led by the imam of a local mosque attacked Zohra Radio in north eastern Kunduz province on January 15 damaging the radio’s equipment and vandalizing the office. The International Federation of journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the...
