The Assembly of Journalists (AOJ), a platform of a piece of editors and journalists, organised a sit in in Agartala on Thursday to protest towards alleged rising threat to the media. The protesters demanded speedy motion towards perpetrators of threats and assaults on journalists in the State.
The stir was referred to as a day after a delegation of AOJ met in-charge DGP to specific concern over incidents of assault and intimidation towards journalists in rural subdivisions. It alleged that the police didn’t provoke motion towards the accused individuals regardless of registration of complaints.
Other calls for of the group embody withdrawal of an “official circular” that allegedly prohibited authorities officers from talking to the media. AOJ Chairman Subal Kumar Dey mentioned they had been additionally demanding a proof from Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb for his September 11 speech in which the latter allegedly criticised native newspapers for exaggerating information on COVID-19 scenario.
Chief Minister Deb has already clarified the content material of his speech and asserted that he meant to advise the media at giant to chorus from spreading panic over the coronavirus scenario in Tripura.
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