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 .
Ghazipur farmers protest gets new life, hundreds flock to Delhi, mahapanchayats held in UP
Ghazipur farmers protest gets new life, hundreds flock to Delhi, mahapanchayats held in UP
Farmer leaders Rakesh and Naresh Tikait demanded that the government release the protesters to create a conducive environment for talks, even as Prime Minister Modi, during his monthly radio address, said that the country was saddened by the insult to the Tricolour on the Republic Day.
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Protesting farmers at Singhu border on Sunday (Photo Credits: PTI)
Farmers protesting against the Centre s three new farm laws said they are in favour of a respectful solution but will not agree to anything under pressure . The statement was made by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi s remarks that the Centre is ready to suspend the farm laws for a period of 12-18 months.
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
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Last Updated: Feb 01, 2021, 01:39 AM IST
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Media bodies have condemned police action against two journalists who were picked up during farmers’ protests at Singhu border for allegedly misbehaving with police personnel.
NEW DELHI: Media bodies have condemned police action against two journalists who were picked up during farmers’ protests at Singhu border for allegedly misbehaving with police personnel. A freelance journalist and another working with a news portal were detained on Saturday. While one of them was later released, the police arrested the other on Sunday.
The Indian Women’s Press Corps, Press Club of India and the Press Association demanded immediate release of the journalist. “Such crackdowns impinge on the media’s right to report freely and interfere with our right to freedom of expression, and freedom of the press as guaranteed by the Constitution of India,” the bodies said in a joi
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Farmer Leaders Say Respectful Solution Should Be Found But Won t Succumb to Pressure; Oppn Steps Up Attack on Govt
Farmers have been protesting at Singhu border against Centre s new agri reforms. (File photo/PTI)
As hundreds of farmers continued to converge at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border following a tearful Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait s impassioned appeal on Thursday, the ripples spread deeper in western Uttar Pradesh where a mahapanchyat was held in Baghpat in support of the stir, the third in as many days in the key region.