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 .
Is India in a state of ‘undeclared emergency’? Several media organizations the Press Club of India, Editors Guild of India, Indian Women’s Press Corps, Indian Journalists Union are among them think this is, indeed, the case. Their concerns cannot be brushed away. ‘Democratic’ India has developed a new brash rash of intimidating members of the fourth estate who still have the spine left to be objective and critical. Legal provisions, some of which are legacies of colonial law, are being blatantly used to impose a culture of silence.
Consider the latest transgression the media bodies were protesting against this of the slew of sedition cases filed against several senior journalists as well as a prominent member of the Opposition across five states for their alleged ‘misleading’ tweets on the violence and the death of a farmer during the disturbances on Republic Day. This particular incident reveals the dual nature of the challenge that confronts Indian media toda
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 .
Undeclared emergency : Media bodies condemn sedition charges against journalists
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Synopsis 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.
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DUJ president S K Pande alleged the situation was like an undeclared emergency .
New Delhi: 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 . At a protest meeting held here, a number of media bodies including the Press Club of India, Editors Guild of India, Indian Women s Press Corps (IWPC), Delhi Union of Jo