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Fewer journalists killed in the first half of 2023: PEC

Geneva: Fewer journalists were killed in the first six months of this year, the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) said on Thursday. Since 1 January, 27 journalists have paid for their profession with their lives in 17 countries. This is the lowest figure recorded for more than 15 years. Although the number of deaths is falling, ...

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PCA demands a modern media centre in Guwahati

Guwahati: Press Club of Assam (PCA) demands a modern multi-media centre in Guwahati for the benefit of working journalists across northeast India and urged State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma totake personal interest in realising the project nearby the International Convention Center or Guwahati Club Rotary (opposite to Kamrup Academy School). PCA, in a media ...

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Indian scribe found dead, PEC demands an authentic probe

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses concern over the mysterious death of a young Indian scribe and raises demand for an authentic probe to findreasons behind the untimely demise of Abdur Rauf Alamgir (32), who hailed from Assam province in northeast India. Local media organisations informed that Alamgir ...

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PEC urges Singapore government to withdraw blockade on Asia Sentinel

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, while expressing its concern over the blockade on Asia Sentinel, an independent online media outlet focusing on Asian news coverage, urges the Singapore government (precisely the interior minister K. Shanmugam) to withdraw the ban immediately and unconditionally. ‘Access to Asia Sentinel’s website has apparently ...

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Bangla scribe killed, PEC demands fair probe

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, condemns the killing of Bangladeshi journalist Golam Rabbani Nadim (45), who becomes the 26th media person to be killedthis year till date. It also demands a fair probe to book the culprits and punish them under the law. Local media reported that Nadim ...

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Pakistan journalist traceless for weeks, PEC demands probe

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses concern over the missing of Pakistan journalist and political commentator Imran Riaz Khan for weeks after his arrest at Sialkot international airport and urged the federal government in Islamabad to launch a probe to get his whereabouts at the earliest. The 47 ...

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An unforeseen journey of a scribe 

First thing first. I never imagined to be a journalist (not to speak of a sports reporter) but destiny had a special script (prepared in a bad mood) for me.  After appearing in the final year examination in Assam Engineering College (1990), I went to meet our unique Physics Professor Surendranath Medhi (many believe him ...

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Narad Jayanti award 2023 conferred on journalist Rupam Barua

Guwahati: The role of media is to balance between truth and general welfare of the whole society and it should be the mantra for media personnel as propounded by Devarshi Narad since time immemorial, said Narendra Kumar Dev, Akhil Bharatiya Sah Prachar Pramukh of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Saturday, while gracing the annual Maharshi ...

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Pakistan television scribe killed, PEC demands justice

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, expresses its concern over the killing of senior Pakistan television scribe Imtiaz Baig by unidentified gunmen in Jhelum locality of Punjab province. Baig, who worked for private news channel Samaa TV, faced the brutal attack on 4 May 2023 as he came out of ...

Journalist Rupam Barua

Journalist Rupam Barua to receive Narad Jayanti award

Guwahati:  Assam’s well known journalist Rupam Barua has been selected for the Prestigeous Devarshi Narad Jayanti award this year, which will be conferred on the nationalist media columnist on Saturday. Barua, who also edits popular Assamese children magazine Sofura, was recently selected for the coveted award, informs Kishor Shivam of Visva Sambad Kendra Assam. As ...

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APFEJ mourns demise of green campaigner Quamrul Chowdhury

Dhaka: Asia-Pacific Forum Environmental Journalists (APFEJ) sincerely condoles the untimely demise of senior Bangladeshi journalist and green campaigner Quamrul Islam Chowdhury, who breathed his last at 8.30 pm on 2 May 2023 in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital, where he was undergoing treatment for some weeks. Former news editor of the government-run news agency ...

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PEC demands release of Julian Assange, Evan Geshkovich with others

Geneva: The number of journalists killed since January to April 2023 has fallen compared to the same period last year, observed Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day (being celebrated on 3 May across the world with the theme of freedom of expression ...

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Taliban continues arresting Afghan journalists, PEC demands justice 

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, expressed concern over the  arrest of three Afghan journalists by the Taliban forces in the south Asian country and demanded the authorities to stop persecuting the scribes.  Local media outlets reported that two reporters from Radio Television Afghanistan (Safiullah Wafa and Noor Agha) and ...

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WSJ reporter arrested in Russia, PEC demands immediate release

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses concern over the arrest of Evan Geshkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, by the Russian security agency and demands his immediate release as he was only doing his assigned job with the accreditation from the Russian foreign ministry. The American reporter was ...