News
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30 Dec 2014Pakistani TV journalist survives attack
By IFJ Asia-Pacific
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in strongly condemning the attack on a television reporter and his wife on December 22 in Sialkot, Pakistan. Zeeshan Shamsi, a reporter with News...
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23 Dec 2014IFJ calls for media freedom as Sri Lankan presidential election approaches
By IFJ Asia-Pacific
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the government of Sri Lanka and state forces to ensure media freedom and the safety of journalists as the country’s Presidential Election approach next month. Sri Lanka is slated to ...
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22 Dec 2014
Journalist severely injured in Afghanistan suicide bombing dies
By IFJ Asia-Pacific
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Afghanistan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) are saddened by the news that a journalist who was severely injured in a suicide bombing two weeks ago in Kabul, Afghanistan has died. ...
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22 Dec 2014Supreme Court upholds conviction and sentence in Nepalese journalist rape case
By IFJ Asia-Pacific
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) in welcoming the Supreme Court verdict on December 18 to imprison a perpetrator in the rape of a female journalist, but has criticized the slow trial p...
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18 Dec 2014IFJ urges Imran Khan to call for end to attacks on media
By IFJ Asia-Pacific
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has urged Imran Khan, the leader of one of Pakistan’s opposition parties, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), to stop attacks against journalists during the PTI demonstrations against the governmen...
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15 Dec 2014IFJ condemns political cadre rampage against reporters in Pakistan
By IFJ Asia-Pacific
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) strongly condemn the attacks against journalists by the protestors of the Pakistan Teheek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Karachi, in Sindh province in Pakistan. ...
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12 Dec 2014Indian journalists’ movement restricted in government building
By IFJ Asia-Pacific
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses concern over the decision by the West Bengal state government in India to restrict journalists’ movement in Nabanna, the state’s main administrative building. The West Bengal Police pass...
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11 Dec 2014Female journalist attacked covering political protests in Pakistan
By IFJ Asia-Pacific
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned by the growing number of attacks against female journalists in Pakistan in recent months. On December 8, a female journalist was attacked covering a political rally in Faisalabad, in Punj...
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11 Dec 2014
Police withdraw protection to senior journalists leader despite threats for life
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses its serious concerns towards the safety of the senior leader of the IFJ affiliate, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), in Lahore, Pakistan after the Punjab Police decided to wi...
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03 Dec 2014
British journalist convicted of contempt for questioning death toll
By IFJ Asia-Pacific
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is shocked by the Bangladesh court’s conviction this week of Dhaka-based British journalist David Bergman on contempt for questioning the official death toll of 1971 liberation war. A special war cr...
Resources
- IFJ South Asia Media Bulletin, February 2023 02/15/2023 Download
- IFJ South Asia Media Bulletin, January 2023 01/18/2023 Download
- Nepal Press Freedom report 2022 01/03/2023 Download
