IFJ renews commitment to journalists in danger zones
(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an abbreviated version of an IFJ media release: IFJ Renews Commitment to Journalists in India’s Danger Zones The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is stepping up its work in India’s hardest hit conflict zones, where journalists and media workers are in urgent need of support to build networks for monitoring […]
Newspaper columnist among victims of massacre in Mumbai
(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: IFJ Extends Solidarity to India’s Media Community The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses its deep sense of anguish over the loss of innocent life in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai and the 60-hour long siege of three landmark buildings in India’s commercial metropolis. “We mourn […]
Journalist investigating drug trafficking gunned down in Bihar state
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the 26 November 2008 murder of Vikas Ranjan, the Hindi-language daily “Hindustan”‘s correspondent in Samastipur district, in the northeastern state of Bihar. Ranjan had been investigating local drug trafficking during the past few weeks. The press freedom organisation hails the progress already made by investigators but calls […]
Journalist murdered in Assam State
(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is a 21 November 2008 IFJ media release: Journalist Murdered in India’s Assam State The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is shocked and outraged at the murder of journalist Jagajit Saikia in India’s north-eastern state of Assam on November 22. According to the Journalists’ Union of Assam (JUA), a unit of […]
Trainee journalist gunned down in Manipur for unknown motives; local media stage protests
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the fatal shooting on 17 November 2008 of Konsam Rishikanta, a young trainee journalist employed by the “Imphal Free Press”, a privately-owned English-language daily based in Imphal, the capital of the northeastern state of Manipur. “We support the strikes announced by the local press in protest against […]
Government warns media against “publication of certain objectionable material”
(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: IFJ Urges Jammu and Kashmir Government to Reconsider Ad Spending Conditions The IFJ and its affiliate organisation, the National Union of Journalists (India), are concerned to learn that the government in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir has sent out an advisory to all media […]
Political activists attempt to storm newspaper office
(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is a 17 October 2008 IFJ media release: IFJ Condemns Attacks on The Hindu in Tamil Nadu The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is disturbed to learn of an attempt by political activists to storm the office of the The Hindu newspaper in the city of Coimbatore in the southern Indian […]
Curfew lifted; crisis period has taken heavy toll on press freedom
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders voices full solidarity with journalists in Indian Kashmir, who have undergone one of the worst periods in decades since the outbreak of protests in early August 2008. The press freedom violations have taken a heavy toll, with a cameraman killed, more than 30 journalists beaten by security forces, local TV […]
Bombay High Court: orders Google’s subsidiary to reveal identity of blogger after posting critical comments
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders secretary general Robert Ménard has written to Google CEO Eric Schmidt and one of Google’s founders, Sergey Brin, about a defamation lawsuit that the Indian construction company Gremach brought against Google’s Indian subsidiary, Google India Private Ltd, in February 2008. As a result of the action, a Bombay high court […]
Journalists attacked, injured in Malkangiri district while covering police event
(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: IFJ Condemns Police Assault on Journalists in India The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is alarmed to learn of an attack on journalists by police personnel in Malkangiri district in the Indian state of Orissa, site of the most recent incident of violence involving a long-running […]
Three newspaper journalists released on bail; two face onerous bail conditions that may interfere with their ability to practice journalism
(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is a 30 June 2008 IFJ media release: IFJ Welcomes Release of Journalists in India The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) welcomes the release in India of the editor of the Telugu newspaper “Andhra Jyoti” and two of its reporters following their arrest on June 24 for the alleged offence of […]
Several journalists attacked, injured while covering student demonstration in Kerala, amid police indifference
(IPI/IFEX) – The following is a 27 June 2008 IPI letter to Chief Minister H.E. V. S. Achuthanandan and Home Minister H.E. Kodiyeri Balakrishnan: H.E. V. S. Achuthanandan Chief Minister Government of Kerala Trivandrum India H.E. Kodiyeri Balakrishnan Home Minister Government of Kerala Trivandrum India Vienna, 27 June 2008 Your Excellencies, The International Press Institute […]
Following arrest of journalists, IFJ calls on authorities in Andhra Pradesh state “not to allow laws against hate speech to be used as an instrument for silencing critical voices in the press”
(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is a 25 June 2008 IFJ media release: IFJ Condemns Arrest of Journalists in Hyderabad City The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the arrest of the editor and two reporters of Andhra Jyoti, a Telugu-language daily published from Hyderabad and various other cities of Andhra Pradesh state in India, under […]
Radio journalist assaulted by police officer; two journalists harassed, briefly detained by Indian border guards
(FNJ/IFEX) – At 4:30 a.m. (local time) on 8 June 2008, Deependra Kunwar, a news correspondent for the Communication Corner radio production company, was assaulted and seriously injured by police personnel in Anamnagar, a central area of the capital, Kathmandu. According to Milan Timilsina, the president of the FNJ’s Anamnagar chapter, Kunwar was assaulted by […]
Political activists attack editor’s home in response to critical article
(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: IFJ Condemns Attack on Home of Journalist in India The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns an attack by political activists on the home of Kumar Ketkar, editor of the Marathi language daily Loksatta, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra on June 5. The All-India […]
Two journalists named in police commissioner’s sedition complaint against newspaper
(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: IFJ Alarmed at Sedition Charges in India The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is alarmed at charges of sedition and criminal conspiracy brought against two journalists and India’s largest English newspaper, the Times of India, by the police commissioner in Ahmedabad city in the western state […]