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Press Statement India: IJU Concerned Over Trolling of Tongam Rina23 Apr, 2020 Expressing profound concern over the trolling of Tongam Rina, Associate Editor of The Arunachal Times, the Indian Journalists Union joins its colleagues in Arunachal Pradesh in demanding legal action against online abusers at the earliest, following filing of an FIR with the Crime Branch today. Rina, who has been seeking justice for the past eight years in a case of attempt to murder, when she was shot at in front of her office in 2012, is now being trolled for an article she wrote on the alleged rise in cases of wildlife hunting in the State during the lockdown. The article followed three video clips circulating on WhatsApp, in two of which, a man claims to have hunted a cobra because he couldn’t find any meat since the lockdown. While the videos went viral and were sensationalised by two national TV channels, maligning the community, Rina’s article on April 18 had merely reported that state Forest Department had identified the three men in the video and were looking out for them for violating the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. Nowhere in the news report were any allegations made or any accusation of wrongdoing apart from what the men in the videos had claimed to have done. However, she has been subjected to plethora of online abuse, hatred campaign and even threatened with physical violence on several posts. In a statement IJU President Geetartha Pathak and Secretary General Sabina Inderjit expressing solidarity with Rina, said such trolling is unacceptable in any civilised society and that it joins its affiliate the Arunachal Pradesh Union of Working Journalists (APUWJ) along with Arunachal Press Club (APC) and Arunachal Electronic & Digital Media Association (AEDMA) in condemning the online abuse. More so, as the inflammatory headlines given by TV news channels, and not her article, would further ignite racist comments against students living outside the State, as the posts suggest. Rina has filed an FIR under 506/509 IPC, reference with Section 67 of IT Act and Section 4 of the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act with the SP SIT. The IJU demands that the hate mongers be arrested and put behind bars, to set an example that gender-based trolling would not be tolerated, and that attempts to silence a journalist, who has been at the forefront defending human and animal rights during her entire career, must be quelled. Written By F-29, Shankar Market Connaught Circus, New Delhi 110001 Telephone +91 9810889396 Comments Resources - Media Freedom in Sri Lanka- 2020 09/24/2021 Download - Chasing Justice : Study on impunity for crimes against journalists in Maldives 08/22/2021 Download - IFJ South Asia Media Bulletin, August 2021 08/18/2021 Download
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Press Statement पत्रकार तिवारीलाई ज्यान लिने धम्की15 Mar, 2018 नेपाल प्रेस युनियन पर्वतका अध्यक्ष तथा नागरिक दैनिकका स्थानिय संवाददाता छविलाल तिवारीलाई नागरिक दैनिकमा प्रकाशित समाचारको विषयलाई लिएर निर्माण व्यवसायी राजेन्द्र भण्डारीले फोन गरी ज्यानै लिनेसम्मको भौतिक कारबाहीको धम्की दिएको घटनाप्रति नेपाल प्रेस युनियनको गम्भीर ध्यानाकर्षण भएको छ। २०७४ फागुन २० गते नागरिक दैनिकमा प्रकाशित ‘निर्माणाधीन पक्की पुल अलपत्र’ शीर्षक समाचारको विषयलाई लिएर निर्माण व्यवसायी भण्डारीले बिहिवार ९८५१०१०४३३ नम्बरबाट फोन गरि अध्यक्ष तिवारीलाई मारेर फालिदिने भनी धम्क्याएको पत्रकार तिवारीले नै बताएका छन्। सञ्चारमाध्यममा प्रकाशित-प्रसारित समाचारप्रति चित्त नबुझे वा कुनै गुनासो रहे अपनाउन सकिने कानुनी तथा अन्य वैधानिक उपचारका बाटोलाई छाडेर पत्रकारको ज्यान मार्ने धम्की दिने घटना गुण्डाराजको नमुना हो। नेपाल प्रेस युनियन पत्रकारलाई दवावमा राख्न दिइने यस्ता धम्कीको घोर भत्सना गर्दछ। प्रेस तथा अभिव्यक्ति स्वतन्त्रतमाथिको हस्तक्षेपको आशयले गरिएका यस्ता हर्कतको कडा शब्दमा निन्दा गर्दै धम्की दिने भण्डारीमाथि तत्काल कानुनी कारबाही गरी पत्रकारलाई निर्वाध र सुरक्षित पत्रकारिता गर्ने वातावरण निर्माण गर्न युनियन सम्बन्धित निकायसँग माग गर्दछ। Written By Nepal Press Union Anam Nagar, GPO Box No - 19033 Kathmandu, Nepal Telephone: 015244746 Comments Resources - Media Freedom in Sri Lanka- 2020 09/24/2021 Download - Chasing Justice : Study on impunity for crimes against journalists in Maldives 08/22/2021 Download - IFJ South Asia Media Bulletin, August 2021 08/18/2021 Download