MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on Monday denounced the misuse of power by the Indian police for targeting media workers who were.
February 5, 2021 |
New Delhi: Eight journalists who covered the farmer protests in India and violence in Delhi on January 26, 2021 are facing baseless criminal charges, Human Rights Watch said in a statement on February 2. The Indian authorities should drop the charges, which include sedition, promoting communal disharmony, and making statements prejudicial to national integration.
“The Indian authorities’ response to protests has focused on discrediting peaceful protesters, harassing critics of the government, and prosecuting those reporting on the events,” said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “The government instead should conduct a transparent and impartial investigation into the January 26 violence in Delhi.”
File photos of Rajdeep Sardesai (left) and Shashi Tharoor
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and journalist Rajdeep Sardesai have moved the Supreme Court against the multiple first information reports filed against them for allegedly sharing unverified news about the death of a protestor during the farmers’ tractor rally on January 26,
Live Law reported on Wednesday.
National Herald’s senior consulting editor Mrinal Pande,
Qaumi Awaz editor Zafar Agha,
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Caravan editor Anant Nath have also approached the court against the FIRs.
On January 30, the Delhi Police became the fifth one to file a case against Tharoor and six journalists. However, unlike the other states, the first information report filed by the Delhi Police does not include charges of sedition. The police had also named
Eight journalists who covered the farmer protests in India and violence in Delhi on January 26, 2021 are facing baseless criminal charges, Human Rights Watch said today.
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.
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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.