AMWJU, EGM decry
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 14 2020:
The All Manipur Working Journalists Union and The Editors' Guild Manipur have expressed over the manner in which a member of the EGM and AMWJU and the Editor of Sanaleibak Daily, N Hemanta is being defamed by someone with a Facebook account in the name of Yengba Meng Luwang and some of his followers.
The Editors Guild Manipur and AMWJU support freedom of speech and critical questioning of the media.
However unsubstantiated charges and allegations aimed to defame the members of the fourth estate on social media platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp are not acceptable.
The two bodies have urged Cyber Crime unit of State police to arrest the culprit as soon as possible and to expedite two other earlier cases related to AMWJU and Impact TV News which date back to more than a year.
EGM and AMWJU also urged the Chief Minister who is in charge of Home and the DG to look into the cases.