by SAMSN Admin | Mar 1, 2015 | Freedom of Expression, Release, Sri Lanka
Continued surveillance or journalists and media organizations in the north of Sri Lanka must cease, says the international media mission to Sri Lanka. Surveillance, monitoring and following of journalists are incompatible with a free media and the principles of open...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 20, 2015 | Maldives, Media Rights Violations, Release, Threat
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Maldives Journalist Association (MJA) strongly criticize the death threats made to a senior journalist with Raajje TV of the Maldives. The IFJ and MJA said threats and intimidation against journalists are...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 17, 2015 | India, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply saddened by the death of Subodh Bose, the president of IFJ affiliate All India Newspaper Employees Federation (AINEF), in Kolkata, India on Friday, February 13, 2015. The IFJ joins the AINEF in expressing...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 6, 2015 | Arrest / Detainment, India, Media Rights Violations, Release, Reports
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) and the Brihanmumbai Union of Journalists (BUJ) in condemning the arrest of Shirin Dalvi, the editor of an Urdu newspaper in Mumbai, India on January 29, 2015 for reprinting a...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 4, 2015 | Attack, Bangladesh, Media Rights Violations, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) condemns the police brutality toward a Bangladeshi journalist on Sunday, February 1 in Dhaka. The IFJ call for an immediate investigation into the assault and...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 3, 2015 | Afghanistan, Impunity, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Afghan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) welcome the arrest of a suspect in the murder of British-Swedish radio journalist Nils Horner in Afghanistan in 2014. On January 30, the Afghan...