BENGALURU, Jul 6:  The two-day National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of Indian Journalists Union (IJU) began today  at REVA University, Bengaluru.
IJU General Secretary Sabina Inderjit said that safety of journalists continues to be a cause of concern and the  demand for a special protection law needs a greater push. Cases against harassment, attacks and killing of journalists just don’t seem to ebb, she said while highlighting the latest case of burning to death of Chakresh Jain, a journalist in Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh for his reportage, allegedly by a district level officer of state government on June 20.
IJU further demanded that three journalists Anuj Shukla and Ishita Singh of Nation Live, a Noida-based news channel and Peer Mohammad, a freelance journalist from Gorakhpur district who were arrested by Uttar Pradesh police under BJP government be released immediately. On the recent mishandling of journalists and photo-journalists in Chandigarh who were deliberately targeted  with water cannons while covering political parties' protests against the government, the IJU general secretary said that it amounts to attack on press freedom and censorship.  IJU also condemned the arbitrary arrest of veteran Kashmiri editor Ghulam Jeelani Qadri of daily Afaaq in a late night raid by the police in Srinagar on June 24, in an old case dating 27 years back.  Highlighting the attacks on digital media, she said while both men and women journalists are being trolled online if their views are against the ruling dispensation, women seem to face the bigger brunt. 
Representatives from 15 states unions affiliated to IJU presented their state reports on the first day of the NEC meeting which was presided by IJU President Amar Devulapalli. Arunachal Pradesh Union of Working Journalists (APUWJ) President Amar Sangno in its state report highlighted the activities initiated by the Union and the recent meeting with state Chief Minister Pema Khandu who assured to look into the demands of the working journalists in the state. Arunachal Press Club President Dodum Yangfo and NEC member Taya Bagang also attended the meeting. IJU PR

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