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 outrage at arrest of scribe Mandeep Punia on Singhu border
A metropolitan magistrate court listed his bail application for hearing on Monday and asked the investigating officer to file his response.
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Enhanced security at Singhu border during farmers protest against the new farm laws in New Delhi on Sunday. (Photo | Shekhar Yadav/EPS) By Express News Service
NEW DELHI: Freelance journalist Mandeep Punia was arrested by Delhi Police and sent to 14 days of judicial custody on Sunday, after a court rejected his bail plea.
A metropolitan magistrate court listed his bail application for hearing on Monday and asked the investigating officer to file his response.
Mandeep Punia had in a Facebook Live session accused BJP workers of posing as local people and unleashing violence at the farmers’ protest site on the Singhu border
Editors Guild demands immediate release of scribe arrested at Singhu border
In a statement, the EGI demanded immediate release of Punia and Delhi Police restore circumstances in which the media can report without fear or favour.
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NEW DELHI: The Editors Guild of India on Monday expressed concern over the incarceration of freelance journalist Mandeep Punia who was reporting on the farmers protest at Singhu border, saying the arrest was an attempt to muzzle courageous voices of independent scribes.
In a statement, the EGI demanded immediate release of Punia and Delhi Police restore circumstances in which the media can report without fear or favour.
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.