AMWJU condemns assault on scribe
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, December 05 2015 :
All Manipur Working Journalist strongly condemned the brutal assault of West Bengal based journalists, Prasenjit Saha and Kalyan Mondal.
A statement, AMWJU Secretary Publicity A Jiten said that Dainik Jugasankha's journalist, Prasenjit Saha and another Journalist Kalyan Mondal were brutally assaulted by some local goons on Friday morning when they went to collect news in south 24 Paragana's under Basanti police station at Baria village, West Bengal.
Over and above severe beating, their mobile phones and cameras were snatched.
They were kept captive until police force from Basanti Police Station rescued them.
The injured Journalists later filed a police report in the police station.
So far the police have arrested 4 people allegedly involved in the attacked.
AMWJU appealed to all to prevent such incident from recurring in future has is amounts to infringe upon the freedom of the Press.