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
The Delhi Union of Journalists on Wednesday condemned the arrest warrant issued by a Gujarat court against senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta in a defamation suit filed by the Adani group.
In a statement the Delhi Union of Journalists expressed shock that a Kutch court has issued an arrest warrant against Guha Thakurta for alleged defamation of the Adani group in an article published in 2017 that said the Narendra Modi government had tweaked rules relating to a special economic zone which gave the company a “Rs 500-crore bonanza”.
Condemning the arrest warrant, the union said: “Ironically, the Adani group has withdrawn its charges against the publishers of the article and the co-authors but not Guha Thakurta. In 2017 the article that stirred controversy was published by the Economic & Political Weekly (EPW).
Increasing danger to press freedom; NAJ, DUJ call for unity on common issues KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 12/24/2020 12:56:07 PM
NEW DELHI, Dec 23: The National Alliance of Journalists (NAJ) and the Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ), have called for the widest possible unity on common issues, taking in view increasing dangers to journalists, their very livelihood and increasing dangers to press freedom today. They have stressed the necessity of a ‘save journalism’ movement.
Twin dangers to the profession are emerging, they said, both from select press barons and the government- that seek to reduce journalism to government tom-tomming on issues ranging from the protests against the Labour Codes to the current farmer struggles and common peoples struggles. Besides, the situation in the emerging TV and wide spectrum media for journalists and co-workers is deplorable, with jungle law prevalent.