Manipur journalists stage protest
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Editors and publishers chorus from publishing the Wednesday version of the newspapers.
Both journalists and non-journalist workers of every day newspapers in Imphal staged a protest on the campus of the Press Club on Wednesday towards the stress laid on them by a banned underground organisation in Manipur.
On Tuesday, the organisation had issued an announcement on the event of its 56th anniversary. A high chief of the organisation had additionally issued a message on the event. However, round 9 p.m. on Tuesday, a telephonic instruction was given to spike the message, whereas alternatively the editors had been advised that the message needs to be revealed.
The editors and publishers determined to not deliver out the Wednesday version of the newspapers.
An emergency assembly of journalists and editors was convened by the All Manipur Working Journalists’ Union and the Editors Guild Manipur on Wednesday. It was determined that the newspapers wouldn’t publish any contradictory statements of the outfit. However, police stories on the outfit can be lined.
It was resolved that workers ought to steer clear of the protest. There can be no version of the newspapers on Thursday.
Officials mentioned that this was not the primary time that journalists have abstained from work. There have been pressures and counter pressures to cowl or spike some information, the officers mentioned.
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