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Pakistan: Journalist Ayaz Amir attacked in Lahore

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Post Views: 45 Originally From: https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/press-releases/article/pakistan-journalist-ayaz-amir-attacked-in-lahore.html Unidentified assailants assaulted senior Pakistani journalist Ayaz Amir as he left a televised debate program in Lahore on July 1. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Pakistan affiliate, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), condemn the attack on Ayaz Amir and call for swift action to bring the perpetrators to justice. Ayaz Amir was attacked shortly after recording his television show for Dunya News. His car was blocked by another vehicle after he left his office on Abbott Road in the…

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SRI LANKA: Journalists and Protesters Face Arrests, Assaults, and Interrogations as Government Fails to Tackle Economic Crisis

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Post Views: 31 July 07, 2022 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Journalists and Protesters Face Arrests, Assaults, and Interrogations as Government Fails to Tackle Economic Crisis The crisis of major magnitude is taking place in Sri Lanka. The world has not yet taken adequate notice of the impact of an economic downturn as a result of the inability of the government to pay the foreign loans as a result of which it is suffering from the worst financial crisis ever faced in the country. Direct…

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කලාවේ, ප්‍ර‍කාශනයේ සහ නිර්මාණකරණයේ නිදහස වෙනුවෙන් වන සටන…

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Post Views: 59 රාජු ප්‍ර‍භාත් ලංකාලෝක විසිනි ආණ්ඩුව මේ මොහොතේ තම මර්දනයේ දෑත් අරගලයේ දිසාවට යොමු කොට ඇත. විශේෂයෙන්ම අරගලයට නායකත්වය දෙන සංවිධාන හා තනි පුද්ගල චරිත වටා ද කැරකෙමින් ඔවුන් දඩයම් කිරීමට මාන බලමින් සිටී. අරගලය ආරම්භයේ පටන් එහි තොරතුරු වාර්තා කරමින් හා සංවිධාන කටයුතුවලට මැදිහත්වෙමින් සිටි මාධවේදී තරිදු උඩුවරගෙදර සීඅයිඩියට කැදවා ප්‍රශ්න කළේය. ඒ ඔහු පවත්වාගෙන යන මාධ්‍ය චැනල වෙත ඔහු මුදා හැර ඇති වීඩියෝ සහ ඒවාට යොදා ඇති මාතෘකා සම්බන්දයෙන් ප්‍රශ්ණ කිරීමටය. තම දෑත් මත තීන්ත ආලේප කරගනිමින් නිර්මාණශීලී ලෙස තම විරෝධය ප්‍රකාශ කළ උද්ඝෝෂකයන් පිරිසක් පොදු…

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ප්‍ර‍කාශනයේ අයිතිය හා මාධ්‍ය නිදහස රැක ගැනීමට සටන් වදිමු!

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Post Views: 47 රාජු ප්‍ර‍භාත් ලංකාලෝක විසිනි ලොව පුරා මහත් ආන්දෝලනයකට හේතුවූ ජූලියන් අසාන්ජ්ව එක්සත් ජනපදයට පිටුවහල් කිරීමට පසුගිය ජූනි 17 දින බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය රජය විසින් අනුමැතිය ලබාදී ඇත. ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය අගයන, ජනතාවට නිවරැදි තොරතුරු දැන ගැනීමට ඇති අයිතිය අගයන, නිදහස් මාධ්‍ය අගයන බොහෝ කොටස්වලට අනුව බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය රජය මෙහිදී ක්‍රියාකොට ඇත්තේ අමෙරිකාව නමැති තම හාම්පුතාගේ ඔඩොක්කු කුක්කකු විලසටය. ජුලියන් අසාන්ජ් යනු විකිලීක්ස් වෙබ් අඩවියේ නිර්මාතෘවරයාය. ඔහුගේ විකිලීක්ස් වෙබ් අඩවිය විසින් 2010 සහ 2011 පමණ සිට ඇෆ්ගන් සහ ඉරාක යුද්ධ පිලිබඳ වූ ලේඛන හා වීඩියෝ දස දහස් ගනණක් ප්‍රසිද්ධ කරන ලදී. එයට එක්සත්…

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Sri Lanka: Journalist investigated over YouTube channel

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Post Views: 44 Journalist and media activist Tharindu Uduwaragedara was summoned to appear before the Sri Lanka Computer Crimes Division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Colombo on June 28. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Sri Lankan affiliates, the Free Media Movement (FMM) and the Federation of Media Employees Trade Unions (FMETU), urge the CID to withdraw its investigation against the journalist immediately. The CID began investigating Tharindu based on a complaint by the Intelligence Division of the Air Force about content on his YouTube channel, ‘Satahana’.…

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Pakistan: Two Pakistani journalists assassinated in two days

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Post Views: 53 Originally From: https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/press-releases/article/pakistan-two-pakistani-journalists-assassinated-in-two-days.html Two Pakistani journalists were murdered by unidentified assailants on July 1 and 2, including prominent journalist Iftikhar Ahmed in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and local reporter Ishtiaq Sodharo in the Sindh province. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Pakistan affiliate, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), condemn the journalists’ killings and urge the Pakistani government to arrest the perpetrators as soon as possible and implement stronger security measures to ensure the safety of journalists in Pakistan. According to eyewitnesses, Iftikhar Ahmed, a…

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Open Letter In Solidarity With Workers At New Frame

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Post Views: 60 On the first of July 2022, the South African news site Times Live reported that New Frame, a not-for-profit, social justice media publication in Johannesburg, would cease operations with retrenchments looming for its 31-person staff. Since its inception in 2018, New Frame has been a source of cutting-edge journalism and informed reporting commentary on the dire state of South Africa and the world from a broadly left perspective. New Frames’ reporting and analysis have energised the South African media landscape, one otherwise dominated by elite outlets committed…

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SRI LANKA: 22nd Amendment Bill – Fundamentals are wrong

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Post Views: 45 July 04, 2022 An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: 22nd Amendment Bill – Fundamentals are wrong By Basil Fernando The amendment of a constitution is a serious task. However, some may argue that it is not such an important task as far as Sri Lanka is concerned. That is because of the most trivialized manner in which Constitutional Amendments have been brought about in Sri Lanka in the recent years. However, if the amendments to a constitution are treated in such a fashion,…

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