Tag Archives: Press Freedom

Journalist killed in India’s Maharashtra, PEC demands fair probe

Posted on February 9, 2023 - 9:07pm by UT News Service
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Nava Thakuria Geneva, 9 Feb: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses shock over the killing of journalist Shashikant Warishe in Maharashtra and demands a fair probe to identify the culprit for punishing under the … Continue reading →

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PEC relieved with release of Japanese journalist Toru Kubota; Maintains demand to grant amnesty for thousands of other prisoners

Posted on November 18, 2022 - 9:30am by UT News Service
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Nava Thakuria Geneva, 17 November 2022: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, expresses happiness over the release of Japanese journalist-filmmaker Toru Kubota along with 6,000 political prisoners in a mass amnesty. However, it maintains the demand to … Continue reading →

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Journalist found dead in Bangladesh, PEC demands authentic probe

Posted on July 11, 2022 - 2:45pm by UT News Service
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Nava J Thakuria Geneva: Journalists continue to be the victim of violence in Bangladesh as the police recovered a partially decomposed body of Hashibur Rahaman Rubel on 7 July 2022. The young scribe went missing five days back and his … Continue reading →

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PEC demands probe into Chin journalist’s killing

Posted on January 10, 2022 - 8:21pm by UT News Service
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Nava J Thakuria Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, condemns the killing of Chin journalist Pu Tui Dim by the Burmese military forces and demands a fair probe into the incidentsthat led to his … Continue reading →

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Ethnic Shan journalists jailed in Myanmar, PEC deplores sentences

Posted on December 14, 2021 - 9:26pm by UT Correspondent
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Nava J Thakuria Geneva: Three ethnic Shan journalists along with a civilian were imprisoned for three years recently by a military court in Myanmar for spreading misinformation about the regime in Naypyidaw. Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety … Continue reading →

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Afghanistan followed by Mexico, Pakistan, India emerge dangerous for journalists in 2021

Posted on December 9, 2021 - 11:24am by UT News Service
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Nava J Thakuria Geneva/Guwahati: Afghanistan and Mexico are the most dangerous countries for media work this year, the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) said in its annual report in Geneva on Thursday in view of Human Rights Day. Since 1 January, … Continue reading →

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IJU expresses concern over militant’s intimidation to Guwahati editor

Posted on November 23, 2021 - 10:55am by UT News Service
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Nava J Thakuria Hyderabad: Indian Journalists Union (IJU) expresses serious concern over the intimidation of banned separatist outfit United Liberation Front of Assam (Independent) to a Guwahati-based news channel editor for his views on three youths’ departure to join the … Continue reading →

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National Press Day observed in Imphal, Valley-based Journos Awarded

Posted on November 16, 2021 - 7:14pm by UT News Service
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Imphal: National Press Day was observed today in Manipur with Chief Minister N. Biren Singh as the chief guest at the Directorate of Information and Public Relations (DIPR) complex, Nityaipat Chuthek. Information and Public Relations Minister Th. Biswajit Singh was … Continue reading →

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UDWJA Condemns Attack on Scribe, Urges Authority to Book Culprits

Posted on October 26, 2021 - 1:34pm by UT Desk
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Ukhrul: The Ukhrul District Working Journalists’ Association (UDWJA) extending full moral support to the family of scribe, Elangbam Rameshwar who was attacked on the morning of October 24 by some unidentified person,s strongly condemned the attack on the Thoubal Correspondent … Continue reading →

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