AJWJU extends solidarity
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 17 2015:
While condemning in the strongest term the act of planting a hand grenade at the residential gate of Editors' Guild Manipur (EGM) General Secretary and Impact TV Editor-in-chief Yumnam Rupachandra at Singjamei Khongnang Pheidekpi Makha Aheibam Leikai,the All Jiribam Working Journalists Union (AJWJU) has conveyed solidarity to AMWJU and EGM.
Pointing out that media/ press is the fourth estate in any democracy,
a press release issued by AJWJU questioned as to why some revolutionary groups have been intimidating the journalist fraternity of the State every now and then.
Journalism has its own ethics and it would be wrong on the part of revolutionary groups to see journalists as adversaries The dictum 'might is right' does not hold true any more, it asserted.
The AJWJU also pledged support to any course of action that may be taken up by the AMWJU and EGM in connection with the current issue.