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PEC urges to end impunity to crimes against journalists

Geneva, 2 November 2022: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, while marking the 2022 International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists on Wednesday commented, ‘more needs to be done to fight impunity on the ground’. Slow progress is made, but still very insufficient, said the PEC after appealing ...

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PEC condemns continued harassment to scribes in Myanmar

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) condemns the continued arrest and imprisonment of journalists in Myanmar, and urges the military authority to release all media persons detained, arrested or imprisoned in fake cases across the southeast Asian nation. The global media safety and rights body also demanded the Burmese military rulers to withdraw the notorious electronic ...

Nava Thakuria

When a senior scribe named and shamed in social media

Guwahati: If a senior scribe is named and shamed in social media as a scam star, should or should not he respond to it? Moreover, when a particular social media post (following up with a series of posts onthe same television journalist) is liked and shared by thousands of non-media persons, can he ignore it ...

Nava Thakuria

Following the intriguing debate on road mishap

During our college days the teachers used to advise and inspire us, once we become automobile engineers, we should try to replace the piston engine as it’s not fuel efficient. When I left Assam Engineering College (under Gauhati University) in 1990 after completing my degree course in Mechanical branch (with a special paper on Automobile ...

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PEC demands fair trial to detained Burmese journalists

Geneva, Switzerland: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, has expressed its concern over the relentless arrest and imprisonment of working journalists in Myanmar (also known as Burma and Brahmadesh) since last year’s military coup and urged the authorities for ensuring fair trials to all the detained journalists. Media reports from ...

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Another Pakistan journalist shot dead in Shorkot

Geneva, Switzerland: One more journalist of Pakistan named Muhammad Younis was shot dead by unidentified assailants on 27  August 2022 in Jhang district of Punjab province. Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body expresses serious concern on the relentlessmurder of journalists in the south-Asian nation and demanded stringent actions against the ...

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PEC urges Pakistan military to respect media persons

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, while expressing relief over the release of senior television personality Ammad Yousaf  on 11 August 2022 by a Karachi-based civil court, urges the Pakistani military authority to maintain respect to media persons. The director (news) of popular ARY News was arrested on Wednesday ...

Nava Thakuria

Marching ahead with the spirit of Swatantra Bharat

Guwahati: It was probably two decades back, when a group of journalists and Guwahati-based patriots marched on a street of Guwahati to celebrate the Independence Day. As a number of separatist armed militant outfits imposed a general strike on the day (that was the way the ethnic insurgents made them visible in the public domain ...

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PEC demands justice to Myanmar photographer Aye Kyaw

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, demands justice to Myanmar photographer Aye Kyaw, who died in military custody recently. The pro-democracy activist used to document the anti-military protest-demonstrations, spread across the southeast Asian country (also known as Burma and Brahmadesh) after the military dictators made a coup on 1 ...

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CM presides over meeting of Board of Directors of HPTDC

Shimla: Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur presided over the 157th meeting of the Board of Directors of Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (HPTDC) on Wednesday evening. Chief Minister directed the officers to take effective steps to boost the business of the Corporation affected due to Covid-19 and to make all the units profitable. He appreciated the ...