Articles for category: Media, world

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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 ...

Nava Thakuria

New York Times Edition, Visibility & Credibility

For some days, it has been widely discussed about the success stories of Delhi government in both education and healthcare sectors. The well wishers of  Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) along with Delhi chief minister CM Arvind Kejriwal  and his deputy Manish Sisodia have flooded the social media space with appreciative messages. Latey it was added ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

Talking about India’s diplomatic preference

Guwahati: Demands for appointing the Ambassadors (instead of High Commissioners) in the 53 Commonwealth countries (so that the Union Government in New Delhi can pursue diplomatic relationships with these nations without any prejudice) are slowly gaining momentum. One can observe from the list of Ambassadors/High Commissioners (of India) in various Commonwealth countries across the world ...

Nava Thakuria

Prakash: Throwing light on Tibetan literature and culture

Guwahati: Prakash, the acclaimed Assamese literary monthly magazine, has come with a special issue on  Tibetan (refugee) literature and culture mesmerizing its vivid readers who otherwise had never experienced the literary taste of neighboring Tibet (pronounced as Tibbat in Assamese), which has been occupied by the Communist Chinese regime in Beijing for decades. Published by ...

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Journalist found dead in Bangladesh, PEC demands authentic probe

Geneva: Journalists continue to be the victim of violence in Bangladesh as the police recovered a partially decomposed body of Hashibur Rahaman Rubel on  7  July 2022. The young scribe went missing five days back and his body was found under a bridge on Garai river in Kumarkhali locality. Rubel was  associated with Dainik Khustiar ...

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One more journalist shot dead in Pakistan, PEC demands punishment toperpetrators

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the  Geneva-based global media safety and rights body, has demanded adequate punishment to perpetrators who were involved in the murder of Pakistani journalist Iftikhar Ahmed on Saturday last. Iftikhar becomes the 74th media worker to be killed this year, whereas  globally  79 media persons lost their lives to assailants in ...

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2022: First six months report globally 72 journo-casualties

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, has been appalled by the large number of journalists killed in the first six months of 2022. The year-on-year increase is 100% with 72 victims in 18 countries since January compared to 36 deaths in the same period last year. By 2021, 79 ...

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PEC demands action against Bangladesh scribe killers

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses concern over the police inaction to nab the killers of  Dhaka-based television journalist Abdul Bari, who was found dead on the bank of Hatirjheel lake in Gulshan  area of the capital city on 8 June. Journalist Bari (28), who was associated with ...

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PEC demands punishment to Bangladesh scribe killers

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global body for media safety and rights, condemns the murder of  Bangladeshi journalist Mohiuddin Sarker Nayeem (28) and demands exemplary punishments to the perpetrators. In an earlier statement, the PEC expressed its serious concern over the sharp rise in journalists killed across the world this year. Mentionable is that ...

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More Burmese scribes imprisoned, PEC denounces military action

Geneva, Switzerland: As the dictators of Myanmar (also known as Burma and Brahmadesh) and military courts continue to detain and imprison journalists, Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) expresses annoyance over the military junta’s actions. The Geneva-based global media safety & rights body urges the international community to support the Burmese media fraternity at this time of ...

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PEC expresses serious concern over sharp rise in journo-murders

Geneva/Guwahati: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the Geneva-based global media safety and rights body is alarmed by the large number of journalists killed in different parts of the world in the first 100days of 2022. Till date 38 journalists have been killed globally since 1 January, which is a sharp rise with over 150% increase compared ...

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PEC condemns killing of scribes in Ukraine

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern and condemns the killing of scribes in Ukraine, who have been reporting from  ground after theRussian invasion, and urges every concerned to respect  freedom of the press. PEC  also criticizes the Taliban, who continues to victimise the Afghan journalists after ...