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Media Bodies Slam FIRs Against Journalists, Want Sedition Law to Be Scrapped
The bodies compared the situation today to an undeclared emergency and demanded the cases filed against journalists for reporting on the farmers tractor rally be removed.
Mrinal Pande, Rajdeep Sardesai and Ananth Nag.
Rights31/Jan/2021
Jaipur: The sedition cases that have been slapped on journalists for sharing âunverifiedâ news during the farmersâ tractor rally in Delhi on January 26 reeks of a conspiracy, observed a host of media and journalists’ bodies at a press conference on Saturday.
The joint press meeting was organised by the Press Club of India (PCI), the Editorsâ Guild of India, the Press Association, the Indian Womenâs Press Corps (IWPC), the Delhi Union of Journalists and the Indian Journalists Union, which was packed with the country’s best known journalists.
It s Like An Undeclared Emergency: Media Bodies On Sedition Charges Against Journalists
Journalists Mrinal Pande, Rajdeep Sardesai, Vinod Jose, Zafar Agha, Paresh Nath and Anant Nath have been booked by the Noida Police on sedition charges Twitter Outlook Web Bureau 2021-01-31T10:39:15+05:30 It s Like An Undeclared Emergency: Media Bodies On Sedition Charges Against Journalists outlookindia.com 2021-01-31T10:45:09+05:30
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Various media associations have condemned the Noida Police’s move of slapping sedition charges on six senior journalists for their reportage of the farmers’ Republic Day tractor parade.
Hitting out at the Centre, the media organisations have also alleged that the current situation in the country with regards to press freedom is akin to an undeclared emergency .
Today the atmosphere is such, it s so poisonous, so toxic that anyone who wants to go to the court perhaps is a fool. You know what the result is going to be. Even during the emergency, rules against journalists were not so harsh, I don t recall anybody going in for sedition, Sahay said.
On Thursday, the Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh Police filed FIR for sedition against journalists Mrinal Pande, Rajdeep Sardesai, Zafar Agha, Paresh Nath, Anant Nath, Vinod K Jose for reporting on the farmers protest rallies and the ensuing violence that took place in the national capital on January 26.
Undeclared emergency : Media bodies condemn sedition cases against journalists for reportage on farmers protest Senior journalist and president of the Press Club of India Anand Sahay alleged the current government does not care for the notion of democracy as the smallest voice of criticism may land people in jail File image of farmers taking out a tractor rally in a protest against new farm laws at Ghaziabad, outskirts of New Delhi. AP
Media bodies Saturday condemned the filing of sedition charges against six senior journalists and editors for their reporting on the farmers tractor parade and the ensuing violence here on Republic Day, alleging the situation in the country is akin to an undeclared emergency .