IJU Condemns AP Journalist Killing
New Delhi, October 17, 2019: The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) expressed grave concern over the brutal murder of K Satyanarayana, Correspondent of Telugu daily, Andhra Jyothi at Thondangi Mandal in East Godavari district on Tuesday night, after he was returning home...
India: Journalist stabbed to death in Andhra Pradesh
Unidentified assailants stabbed and killed Andrah Pradesh journalist K Satyanarayana on October 14 – just a month after his attack in a separate incident. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliates the National Union of Journalists (India)...
Govt Asked to Place Orders on J&K Communication Lockdown
New Delhi, 16 October: In the case related to press freedom being curtailed in Jammu & Kashmir, the Supreme Court has directed the Government to produce the orders under which it imposed complete clampdown on communications there. The three-member bench was...
IJU Expresses Concern Over Rising Layoffs in Media
On World Day for Decent Work, the Indian Journalists Union expressed grave concern over the rising layoffs in the media sector, which the owners and managements justify as an offshoot of the economic slowdown. The trend is across the board in print, television and...
Supreme Court Admits IJU Intervention Petition
The Supreme Court today admitted Indian Journalists Union intervention application in Anuradha Bhasin, Executive Editor of Kashmir Times, writ petition challenging the communication shutdown in Kashmir for violating the freedom of the press guaranteed under Article...
IJU demands withdrawal of information black out on International Day for Access to Information
Indian Journalists Union (IJU) today on the Universal Access to Information Day reiterates its concern at the continued internet and communication shut down in Kashmir valley. The government of India is increasingly blocking internet to stop organizing protests...
India: IJU goes to court, fighting internet shutdown in Kashmir
Since August 5, the Indian government has imposed a shutdown of the internet in Jammu & Kashmir. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) have strongly condemned the shutdown as a violation of the right...
IJU seeks to intervene in Anuradha Bhasin case in SC
The Indian Journalists Union (IJU), the largest and most representative union of working journalists in the country, has sought to intervene in the Anuradha Bhasin writ petition challenging the communications lockdown in Jammu and Kashmir, in the Supreme Court. IJU...
India: Journalists under threat in Uttar Pradesh
In the past week journalists have come under threat in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, targeted by authorities for simply doing their job. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Indian Journalist Union (IJU) have strongly condemned the...
IJU Condemns Cases Against Journos in UP, Haryana
The Indian Journalists Union expresses grave concern over journalists being repeatedly harassed and targeted by BJP governments in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. Recently, two new fresh cases have been reported—a journalist arrested in UP’s Azamgarh district and an FIR...
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India: Thousands protest against treatment of The Wire editor
Around 3,500 jurists, academicians, actors, artists, writers have protested against the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government for filing criminal charges under a First Information Report (FIR) against The Wire editor Siddharth Varadarajan. The International Federation of...
India: Multiple media outlets lay off staff and cut pay during Covid-19
Faced with economic challenges due to the Covid-19 crisis, multiple media outlets in India have resorted to staff layoffs, extended leave without pay and pay cuts. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliates the Indian Journalists’ Union (IJU)...
India : Press Statement
The National Union of Journalists (India) NUJ(I) has expressed deep anguish and serious concern over developments in Indian media that include suspension of publications, salary cuts and summery dismissals of working journalists in the wake of COVID 19 pandemic. In...
India : IJU Call To Halt Layoffs
The Indian Journalists Union calls upon the Indian Newspaper Society, the News Broadcasters Association, Editors Guild of India and Digital News Publishers’ Association to halt and prevent lay-offs of journalists in the midst of the pandemic. While the media industry,...
India: IJU condemns UP Govt’s action against the Wire
The Indian Journalists Union strongly condemns Uttar Pradesh government’s brazen attempt to gag criticism and independent media by filing criminal charges against The Wire and one of its founding Editors and senior journalist Siddharth Varadrajan. Two FIRs filed...
South Asia: Media unions and advocates calls for urgent end to Kashmir blockade
A group of 37 national media unions from South Asia as well as global media advocacy and freedom of expression organisations today called for an end to the ongoing communications blockade in Indian-administered Kashmir. The International Federation of Journalists...
IFJ Blog: Connectivity in times of Corona
As Kashmir locks down yet again – this time to contain the coronavirus pandemic – access to the internet can be a matter of life and death, quite literally. Dr Suhail Naik makes a compelling case for restoration of communication facilities to the region. Following the...