{"id":76493,"date":"2019-08-22T01:31:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T20:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=76493"},"modified":"2019-08-22T01:31:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T20:01:46","slug":"iju-concerned-over-nrc-targeting-of-journos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/08\/22\/iju-concerned-over-nrc-targeting-of-journos\/","title":{"rendered":"IJU concerned over NRC targeting of journos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>HYDERABAD\/GUWA-HATI, Aug 21:<\/strong> The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) and its affiliate Journalists Union of Assam (JUA) has expressed serious concern over propaganda under the &#8216;NRC&#8217; authority logo to allegedly malign and brand a group of renowned journalists from across the country as anti-national for their critical reports and articles on the ongoing national register of citizens (NRC) exercise being undertaken in Assam in different media outlets.<br \/>\nSaying that the IJU views this as &#8220;a hate campaign and crass intolerance against opinions and reports of professional journalists,&#8221; IJU president and Press Council of India member Amar Devulapalli and secretary general and IFJ vice president Sabina Inderjit condemned the campaign and termed it as &#8220;an attack on the right to free speech and expression.&#8221;<br \/>\nJUA president and IJU vice president Geetartha Pathak, who has been closely following and writing on the NRC exercise, said the document is &#8220;an attack on the profession of journalism and a mischievous attempt to intimidate journalists&#8221; to refrain from reporting and analysing the ground reality in Assam.<br \/>\nWhile the IJU has noted that the NRC Authority has claimed, after three days since the document appeared that it has &#8220;nothing to do with its creation or circulation&#8221;, it demanded that the authority investigate the origin of the document, which it termed as &#8220;anti-NRC propaganda&#8221;.<br \/>\nFurther, the IJU urged all social media platforms to not only withdraw the hate campaign against professional journalists, but to guard against such propaganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD\/GUWA-HATI, Aug 21: The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) and its affiliate Journalists Union of Assam (JUA) has expressed serious concern over propaganda under the &#8216;NRC&#8217; authority logo to allegedly malign and brand a group of renowned journalists from across the country as anti-national for their critical reports and articles on the ongoing national register of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}