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Clampdowns and Courage Ifj South Asia Press Freedom Report 2017-2018 CLAMPDOWNS AND COURAGE IFJ SOUTH ASIA PRESS FREEDOM REPORT 2017-2018 SIXTEENTH ANNUAL SOUTH ASIA PRESS FREEDOM REPORT (2017-2018) 2 IFJ PRESS FREEDOM REPORT 2017–2018 3 CONTENTS This document has been produced Cover Photo: Students and activists by the International Federation of holding ‘I am Gauri’ placards take part 1. FOREWORD 4 Journalists (IFJ) on behalf of the in a rally held in memory of journalist South Asia Media Solidarity Network Gauri Lankesh in Bangalore, India, (SAMSN). on September 12, 2017. The murder 2. OVERVIEW 6 Afghan Independent Journalists’ of Gauri Lankesh, a newspaper editor Association and outspoken critic of the ruling Hindu nationalist party sparked an Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik SPECIAL SECTIONS outpouring of anger and demands Forum for a thorough investigation. CREDIT: Federation of Nepali Journalists MANJUNATH KIRAN / AFP 3. IMPUNITY 10 Free Media Movement, Sri Lanka Indian Journalists’ Union This spread: Indian journalists take 4. RURAL JOURNALISTS 18 Journalists Association of Bhutan part in a protest on May 23, 2017 Media Development Forum Maldives after media personnel were injured 5. GENDER - #METOO AND 26 National Union of Journalists, India covering clashes in Kolkata between National Union of Journalists, Nepal police and demonstrators who were calling for pricing reforms in the THE MEDIA Nepal Press Union agriculture sector. CREDIT: DIBYANGSHU Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists SARKAR/AFP 6. INTERNET SHUTDOWNS 32 Sri Lanka Working Journalists’ Association South Asia Media Solidarity Network This document has been produced COUNTRY CHAPTERS (SAMSN) – Defending rights of with support from the United journalists and freedom of expression Nations Educational, Scientific and 7. AFGHANISTAN 38 in South Asia. samsn.ifj.org/ Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign The SAMSN Digital Hub – Affairs (NMFA). The views and 8. BANGLADESH 44 https://samsn.ifj.org/map/ provides contents expressed herein are those a listing of all known cases of media of the IFJ and can in no way be 9. BHUTAN 48 rights violations from 2014. taken to reflect the official opinion of UNESCO and NMFA. The author will be responsible for 10. INDIA 52 Editor: Laxmi Murthy the choice and presentation of the Special thanks to: facts contained in the paper and 11. MALDIVES 62 Ujjwal Acharya for the opinions expressed therein, Laily Begum which will not be necessarily those Faheem Dashty of UNESCO and NMFA and do 12. NEPAL 68 Sunanda Deshapriya not commit the Organisations, Sara Farid the designations employed and 13. PAKISTAN 74 Sarah B. Haider the presentation of material Alexandra Hearne throughout this book will not imply 14. SRI LANKA 80 Pulack Ghatack the expression of any opinion Nishita Jha whatsoever on the part of UNESCO Sujata Madhok and NMFA concerning the legal Sukumar Muralidharan status of any country, territory, VIOLATIONS AND JOURNALIST Maryam Mehtar city or area, or its authorities or SAFETY INDICATORS Lubna Jerar Naqvi concerning the delimitation of its Adnan Rehmat frontiers and boundaries. 15. LIST OF MEDIA RIGHTS 88 Nadia Sabohi CC-BY-SA license Ehsan Ahmed Sehar Open Access is not applicable to non- Sharanya Sekaram VIOLATIONS BY JOURNALIST IFJ copyright photos in this publication. Geeta Seshu Nadia Sharmeen SAFETY INDICATORS (JSIS), Jane Worthington Faisul Yaseen MAY 2017 TO APRIL 2018 Needrup Zangpo Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Design by: LX9 Design Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka [email protected] Images: With special thanks to 16. JAILED AND DETAINED 100 Agence France-Presse for the use of images throughout the JOURNALISTS IN report. Additional photographs are contributed by IFJ affiliates and also SOUTH ASIA accessed under a Creative Commons May 2018 Attribution Non-Commercial Licence and are acknowledged as such through this report. 4 IFJ PRESS FREEDOM REPORT 2017–2018 5 FOREWORD s we fight for journalist rights for another year, there’s a pervading sentiment emanating through the collective discourse of media workers in South Asia.It is audible in the A street demonstrations and protests of media workers. It is there, between the lines, in journalist union statements and in formal calls to government to do more for safety and protection of media workers.It is written boldly and plainly in the protest placards and banners carried by activists in cities and regional WE DOCUMENT THE CLAMPDOWNS, REPRESSION AND MUZZLING BY centres; raw emotions and brave statements etched out each and every time yet another attack or killing takes target on a journalist. LEGAL MEANS AND MORE. BUT WE ALSO PAY RESPECT TO THE OTHER It is evident in the robust defence that plays out on social media against the obscene trolling of women journalists and secular THING THAT UNITES SOUTH ASIA’S MEDIA – AND THAT IS COURAGE. bloggers in the online space. It is heard every time a journalist is jailed or detained on spurious On April 30, Afghanistan’s media endured one of its darkest days after another heinous suicide bombing and deadly targeted attack. and dubious charges, and in the passionate defence and campaigns At least 10 journalists lost their lives, nine in a suicide bomb attack delivered by colleagues and family for their release. It is the in Kabul, where the killer disguised himself as a reporter at the scene of an initial bomb blast. In a separate incident, Ahmad Shah, disturbing undertone in the ongoing discourse on the scourge of a young journalist with the BBC’s Pashto service, was shot dead by fake news that is taking over the online space as well as mainstream unknown gunmen in Khost province. Credit: Screenshot/TOLO News media.And it is there in the bleak silence of the many internet shutdowns that are plaguing freedom of expression and human rights in South Asia. In this vast and diverse region that is increasingly divided by political extremism and suffering under authoritarian regimes with little regard for freedom of expression or the public’s right to know, one of the clear things that unites South Asia’s media is the shared experience of challenging clampdowns and control.The juggernaut of ever-evolving economic, social, cultural, political and, now, technological impacts, is putting the profession of journalism under pressure like never before. Legacy media is slowly but surely being dismantled or disembowelled, increasingly to push the agendas of media owners or powerful political and business interests. Wages and job permanency have been the casualty of an information revolution, that has left fewer journalists working harder than ever before.The pervading question is: what kind of future will it be for South Asia’s journalists? After the storm, what will this new media landscape reflect? With the current trajectory of clampdowns and increasing controls, one could be forgiven for pessimistically thinking, if there will indeed be one with the BBC’s Pashto service, was shot dead by unknown gunmen sentiment of this year’s report. journalists across the region about the insidious impact of sexual and if press freedom can indeed survive. in Khost province. Our deepest sympathies go to all our colleagues We document the clampdowns, repression and muzzling by legal harassment and how they are bravely working to change the story. As we release this year’s South Asia Press Freedom Report, in Afghanistan who have lost 22 colleagues in this one single year of means and more. But we also pay tribute to the other factor that And we reveal journalists jailed, detained or disappeared for simply Clampdowns and Courage, Afghanistan’s media has endured one of review. Sadly, this epitomises the brutality of that country’s working unites South Asia’s media – and that is courage. trying to do their job. its darkest days and is in national mourning after another heinous environment, where the Taliban and the Daesh frequently target In the face of adversity, its media fearlessly perseveres, despite the For these reasons and more, Clampdowns and Courage suicide bombing and deadly targeted attack. At least 10 journalists media and journalists while the state remains clearly unable to suffering and despite increased controls and criminalisation of their encapsulates a record of this past year and the work of many. And, lost their lives in a single deadly day on April 30, 2018 – nine in a provide any security to them. craft.We give special focus to the many rural journalists in small most importantly, we hope it will continue to support the South suicide bomb attack in Kabul, where the killer disguised himself as In India, we saw a nation in mourning after the brutal shooting towns and villages who risk their lives to bring their stories to their Asia Media Solidarity Network to continue its campaign for justice – a reporter at the scene of an initial bomb blast. Among the victims of respected firebrand journalist Gauri Lankesh in the heart of communities and beyond. We shed light on the political crisis that is because that is what we all deserve. was AFP’s chief photographer Shah Marai, who was responsible tech-city Bengaluru. In the aftermath, the protests in defence of enveloping the Maldives and the ongoing conflict in Kashmir, with for many of the compelling images in this report from across media took over the country and ignited a solidarity that went strong messages of resilience coming from both. We also document Jane Worthington Afghanistan. In a separate incident, Ahmad Shah, a young journalist beyond India’s borders across the region and epitomises the the impact of the #metoo movement as we hear from women IFJ Asia-Pacific 6 IFJ PRESS FREEDOM REPORT 2017–2018 7 Indian journalists and photojournalists hold placards during a silent rally in Kolkata on April 11, 2018, to protest against the harassment of journalists by police across the state of West Bengal in India.
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