Hill journalist orgs condemn attack on scribes
Source: Hueiyen News Service

Ukhrul, July 14 2015 : Manipur Hill Journalists Union (MHJU) and Ukhrul District Working Journalists Association (UDWJA) joined the chorus of condemnation against the alleged assault on State journalists and disrupting their duties by protesters and police personnel during the ongoing ILPS movement in several parts of the State.

In a separate press releases issued by MHJU and UDWJA it was said at a time when the State is fighting for implementation of the ILP system for the long deprived indigenous people, hampering duties of journalists covering the movement by resorting to physical attack against them would only lead to deprivation of news for public.

The way some ILPS protesters put journalists through unwarranted ordeals at various parts of the State amounts to disrespecting the whole press fraternity.

Journalists are working for dissemination of news to the public at cost of their lives in covering various life threatening incidents happening in our society As for the police, their high handedness is all too well known.

It is quite unbecoming of the guardians of law to breach the rights of journalists stipulated by the Indian Constitution by subjecting them to unreasonable questioning despite journalists identified themselves with press ID cards.

While vehemently condemning the incidents, UDWJA fervently hopes that the government take exemplary actions against those guilty police personnel and the protesters mend their ways so that such incidents not to repeat in future.

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