Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern over the imprisonment of fearless Burmese journalist- filmmaker Shin Daewe for live by the ruling military junta of Myanmar (also known as Burma and Brahmadesh) and demands her immediate release along with other over 50 jailed scribes. The award-winning documentary ...
Geneva/Guwahati, 3 January 2024: With 140 journalists killed, 2023 was the deadliest year in ten years, the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, announced in Geneva on Wednesday. Two-thirds of the victims were in the Middle East, with almost one killed every day in the last three months of the ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses concern over the arrest of two more online journalists in Myanmar (also known as Burma and Brahmadesh) by the military rulers, who are currently facing armed offensive from different anti-junta rebel groups in various parts of the southeast Asian nation. The media ...
Guwahati: As preliminary works for the flyover connecting Dighalipukhuri point with Bamunimaidan area in the city has begun (following which the working space for the city press club in Ambari locality will be drastically reduced), Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) urges Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to initiate for a separate arrangement for the benefit ...
Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses shock over the demise of veteran Assamese journalist Anil Barua, who breathed his last at around 6:50 pm on 28 November 2023 at a city hospital. The former editor of Dainik Asom was suffering from heart ailments for some time. Barua (84) left behind his wife, three daughters and ...
Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses concern over repeated verbal attacks on journalists by various individuals in the recent past and urges the State media fraternity to get united against all odds. The forum in a statement recalled the derogatory comments by AIUDF chief Maulana Badruddin Ajmal against the video journalists, where the Parliamentarian recently ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, has expressed concern over the recent arrest of a Rakhine reporter in western Myanmar and urged the military junta to release Ko Htet Aung along with other nearly 30 media persons, who were detained, arrested and imprisoned in the southeast Asian country after ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses concern over the recent arrest as well as raids of a media office in India’s capital city New Delhi, asserting that scribes should not be harassed for their duties. The police not only raided the office of NewsClick, a 2009 founded news ...
Guwahati: Expressing concern over the recent arrest and raids of media office and residences of journalists in New Delhi, an Assam based scribe’s body urges Delhi police to clarify the reason behind the actions against media personnel in the last few days. Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) stated that no scribe should be harassed for his/her ...
Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses profound grief over the sudden and untimely demise of two Assamese scribes in two weeks and prays to the almighty to bless them with eternal peace. JFA hopes that the families of Dhurva Saikia and Deepangshu Dev Sarmah will be able to bear the irreparable losses, as both the ...
Guwahati: Is it usually possible to get hundreds of newspaper-articles, prepared by independent experts on Bangladesh politics, published in various countries within a few weeks, particularly at a time when the south Asian nation is approaching national elections early next year? Or was it a sponsored campaign by a number of writers with dubious credentials ...
Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has expressed concern over the sudden closure of city-based satellite news channel DA News Plus from Friday and demanded fair compensations to the employees including scribes. The affected employees saw a notice on 17 August 2023, where it was stated that the telecast and other related activities will be ceased ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, condemns the murder of Vimal Kumar Yadav, a young scribe associated with the leading Hindi newspaper, Dainik Jagran, in Bihar province of north India this morning and demanded a high level probe into the incident to unearth the motive behind the assassination as ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) expresses its serious concern over the murder of two Pakistani journalists within a week and the global media safety and rights body demands justice to the bereaved families of Jan Mohammed Mahar and Ghulam Asghar Khand. Pak media outlets reported that Mahar (50), senior reporter of Kawish Television Network and ...
Guwahati: Press Club of Assam (PCA) expresses profound grief at the untimely demise of photo journalist Dhanti Hira (25) at Samaguri in Nagaon district and demands a thorough probe into his mysterious death after a road accident in night hours on 16 July 2023. Dhanti, who worked for a city-based satellite news channel NKTV, was returning ...
