Geneva: Expressing shock and dismay over the killing of journalist Abdul Latif Baloch in front of his wife and children, the global media safety and rights body Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) demanded a thorough probe into the incident of murder and bring the culprits to justice. Abdul Latif (55), who was associated with ‘Daily Intekhab’ ...
Geneva, 19 May 2025: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expressed shock over the murder of another Indian journalist and demanded justice for the bereaved family of Dharmendra Singh Chauhan. The Haryana-based media person, who was associated with online media outlet named Fast News India, was shot at by the ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, while revealing that 55 journalists have been killed since 1 January 2025 around the world, demanded due action against the perpetrators. On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, the PEC stated that the auspicious day reminds everyone to uphold press freedom and ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expressed serious concern over the suspected killing of online journalist Sahadev Dey at Diglipur area of Andaman and Nicobar islands on 29 March 2025 and demanded a fair probe to identify the probable culprits and punish them under the law. Local media in ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body expresses shock over the killing of a Nepali journalist in Kathmandu on 28 March 2025 and demanded a fair probe into the tragic incidents which led to the demise of television journalist Suresh Rajak (photo). Local media reports reveal that Rajak was burnt ...
Guwahati: Press Club of Assam (PCA) expresses worries that the country’s statutory and quasi-judicial body to safeguard the press freedom remains non-functional for nearly five months. PCA in a statement insisted on constituting the 15th Press Council (of India) as the term of the 14th Press Council expired on 5 October 2024. It also demanded ...
Guwahati: Understanding the grim situation, created by illegal migrants (precisely from Bangladesh) across Bharat, a regional forum of nationalist citizens urges the Union government to adopt a rock-hard policy to detect and deport all the intruders as early as possible. Patriotic People’s Front, Assam (PPFA), in a statement, lamented that successive governments in New Delhi ...
Geneva: A record number of media persons have been killed this year across the world, observed the global safety & rights body Press Emblem Campaign. At least 165 of them lost their lives in 21 countries on the globe (till Tuesday) said the PEC. Two conflicts are responsible for two thirds of victims namely the ...
Geneva: Pakistan, even though without any war on it, continues to lose media persons to assailants and the south Asian nation witnessed the 12 th journo-victim within 12 months of 2024. Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern after receiving the news about the murder of another journalist ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, demands justice to Cambodian journalist Chhoeung Chheung, who was shot by a homemade gun inside a forest reserve in Siem Reap locality on 4 December 2024. Chheung (63), who worked for an online media outlet named Kampuchea Aphivath (Cambodia Development News), emerged as a ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern over continued killing of journalists in Pakistan as another scribe lost his life in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa bordering Afghanistan. Janan Hussain (40) became one of the 42 Shiite Muslims who were ambushed and killed by gunmen in Kurram locality on 20 November. ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) annual prize 2024 for the protection of journalists was awarded to Palestinian journalist Iyad Alasttal on 20 November. Since 7 October last year, more than 150 Palestinian and Lebanese journalists have been killed, which is an unprecedented toll in a conflict in such a short space of time. The PEC ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, deplored that the record in the fight against impunity remains gloomy particularly this year as the perpetrators of violence and murders committed against journalists over the past days have enjoyed total impunity. On the eve of International Day to End Impunity for Crimes ...
Geneva: Another Pakistani journalist has been killed and this time it happens in Sindh province. Muhammad Bachal Ghunio, a reporter for Awaaz Television, was shot dead at Rounti area on 26 August by the miscreants. The victim’s family members lodged a protest demonstration in front of the senior police officer’s office in Mirpur Mathelo. Sindh ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, strongly condemns the killing of two reporters during a military raid in Mon State of Myanmar and demands a fair probe to the incident that led to the death of Htet Myat Thu and Win Htut Oo on 21 August 2024. Burmese media outlets ...
