Ukraine and Mexico emerge as most dangerous countries for journalists in 2022 Geneva, 14 December 2022: Ukraine and Mexico emerge as the most dangerous countries for media work this year, stated the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) in its annual report published in Geneva on Wednesday.Since January, 115 media workers have been killed in 29 countries ...
Guwahati: Nation should be a priority for everyone. Leaving aside all differences we have to work tirelessly for welfare of the nation, thus said Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat, while addressing a conclave of Swayamsevaks and Karyakartas today at Hajongbari locality in the city. Attending the concluding program of three-day (9 to 11 ...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, denounces the Myanmar (Burma/Brahmadesh) junta for continue jailing scribes as Yangon-based freelance journalist Ah Hla Lay Thuzar was recently sentenced to two years in prison with hard labour by a military court. PEC maintains its demand to release all detained and imprisoned journalists by ...
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 release all detained and imprisoned journalists by the Myanmar (Burma/Brahmadesh) military junta, led by Min Aung ...
Guwahati: The city-based scribes will observe the forthcoming National Press Day 2022 and discuss the state of press freedom in Northeast and India as a whole along with the relentless threats, pitfalls andchallenges to the journalists after the steady invasion of digital media users. Media persons, under the banner of proposed Assam Union of Journalists, ...
As we are celebrating National Press Day on 16 November in India, let’s pay our heartiest tributes to everyone who contributed to the growth of print media and also the Press Council of India (PCI), its mentor and watchdog. Moreover, it should also be an occasion for the practicing media persons to introspect over their ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
