DUJ Expresses Concern Over Journos Injured While Covering Farmers’ Protest

It also said that the Internet shutdown in seven districts of Haryana and three districts of Rajasthan, had made it extremely difficult for journalists to cover the protests.

AMID reports of Haryana police using drones to fire tear gas shells and lath-charging at the Punjab-Haryana border injuring over 100 farmers, some journalists on reporting assignment were also injured.

Journalist Unions Express Concern on Proposed Broadcasting Bill 2023

THE National Alliance of Journalists (NAJ), the Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) and the Andhra Pradesh Working Journalists Federation (APWJF) join the Network of Women in Media India, (NWMI) and the Editors Guild of India and others, in expressing their grave reservations against the proposed Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill 2023.In a joint statement issued on January 31, the NAJ, DUJ and APWJF stated that this proposed bill is a further step to expanding a new era of undeclared censorship and increasing government control over all types of media from TV channels, to films, platform

Journalist Unions Condemn the Raids

THE National Alliance of Journalists, the Delhi Union of Journalists and the Kerala Union of Working Journalists (Delhi Unit), in a statement issued on October 13, have condemned the police raids at the houses of journalists and many others connected to Newsclick. Phones and laptops of these journalists were seized. Several of the media persons have been taken into custody.

Revoke FIR against Editors’ Guild

THE Delhi Union of Journalists, in a statement issued on September 5, has severely condemned the filing of an FIR by the Imphal police against the Editors’ Guild of India (EGI) for its fact-finding report on the violent conflict in Manipur. A three-member team of veteran journalists had visited Manipur recently to examine how media organisations had been reporting the ongoing ethnic conflict. The FIR has been filed against the team members Seema Guha, Sanjay Kapoor and Bharat Bhushan as well as the president of the Guild, Seema Mustafa.

Press Information Bureau ‘Yes’ Police Information Bureau ‘No’

THE Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ), in a statement issued on April 8, has strongly opposed the amendments made to the IT Rules 2021. The amendments in fact change the very nature and mandate of the Press Information Bureau, giving them virtual policing powers.

Caution: Saffronisation of Doordarshan and All India Radio

THE National Alliance of Journalists (NAJ) and the Delhi Union of Journalists, in a joint statement on March 16, have expressed serious concern at the virtual capture of India’s Prasar Bharati, which runs both the Doordarshan and All India Radio, by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), through its own news agency, Hindustan Samachar.

Journalists Bodies Slam BBC Office IT ‘Searches’ As Ominous

THE National Alliance of Journalists (NAJ) and the Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) joins the Editors’ Guild of India in expressing concern at the ‘searches’ /’surveys’, conducted by the IT department on BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai on February 14, as ‘ominous’.They are of the firm opinion, that indeed a new era of undeclared press censorship and curbs on independent journalism is spreading to curb all forms of independent thinking aimed to numb all forms of dissent.

DUJ-KUWJ Slam Curbs on Journalists

THE Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) and Kerala Union of Working Journalist (KUWJ) Delhi Unit, in a joint statement on July 28, have expressed serious concern, both at the curbs on Kashmiri journalist Aakash Hassan, who was ‘barred’ from flying to Sri Lanka for coverage and the arrest warrant against journalist Ravi Nair in an Adani defamation suit.

Journalists Condemn Murder

INDIAN journalists, over a hundred of them, from different parts of the country, have sent a letter to Naftali Bennett, prime minister of Israel through the Israeli embassy in Delhi on May 16, strongly condemning the 'murder' of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who was shot in the face while she was reporting a raid by Israeli soldiers from Jenin. The letter said that the shocking assassination – described as such by Al Jazeera – again underlines the Israeli government's inability to accept independent journalism that speaks the truth.

Restore Independence of Kashmir Press Club, says DUJ

THE Delhi Union of Journalists(DUJ) said it is dismayed at the government move to close the Press Club of Kashmir. The DUJ issued a press note in this regard on January 16th.

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