20 September 2019: The Indian Journalists Union has voiced serious concern over Jharkhand government’s bid to influence media reportage in its favour by inviting journalists to write about its welfare schemes and offering them money in return.
14 September 2019: The Indian Journalists Union (IJU), the largest and most representative union of working journalists in the country, has sought to intervene in the Anuradha Bhasin writ petition challenging the communications lockdown in Jammu and Kashmir, in the Supreme Court. IJU Secretary General Sabina Inderjit filed an Intervention Application (IA) in the apex court on Wednesday, to put forth the views of working journalists, ‘who are worst suffers of the information lockdown in J&K, particularly the Kashmir valley’.
10 September 2019, New Delhi/Hyderabad : The Indian Journalists Union expresses grave concern over journalists being repeatedly harassed and targeted by BJP governments in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. Recently, two new fresh cases have been reported—a journalist arrested in UP’s Azamgarh district and an FIR lodged against a journalist in Uklana district of Haryana.
3 September 2019 : The Indian Journalists Union strongly condemns the Uttar Pradesh government for filing an FIR against a journalist in Mirzapur district for reporting the truth and demands that it be withdrawn forthwith.
25 August 2019: The Indian Journalists Union and its three nominated Members to the Press Council of India representing media organisations are shocked and gravely troubled at the PCI Chairman Justice (Retd) C K Prasad’s blatant violation of the Council rules, plus his actions have not only undermined the credibility of the institution but go against the primary aim of the institution in protecting the freedom of press.
21 August 2019: The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) and its affiliate Journalists Union of Assam (JUA) has expressed serious concern over propaganda under the “NRC” Authority logo to malign and brand a group of renowned journalists from across the country as anti-national for their critical reports and articles on ongoing National Register of Citizens exercise being undertaken in Assam in different media outlets.
16 August, 2019 :The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) has condemned the high handedness of the Meghalaya police to browbeat the news portal Northeast Now to remove a news item and disclose its sources. Worse, the police has asserted that media houses had no journalistic privilege or any codification which prevents them from disclosing their sources.
8 August 2019: The Indian Journalists Union (UU) expresses grave concern over restrictions imposed on the media and journalists in Kashmir, which is under unprecedented lockdown since August 5. With all means of communication including basic, mobile telephones and internet services blocked, the media's access to information and its rightful duty to inform the public has been curtailed.
24 July 2019: The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) on Wednesday gave a clarion call to the working journalists, editors to raise their voice against the nefarious designs of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to cut into the roots of press freedom in the country by repealing two legislations that protect the unique character of the profession of journalism. In two Labour Code Bills, one on Working Conditions and the other on Wages, introduced in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, the government proposed to repeal the Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act of 1955, and the Working Journalist (Fixation of rates of wages) Act, 1958 along with 11 other labour laws.
13 July 2019: The Indian Journalists Union has questioned the Government’s manoeuvres to block media’s and in fact the public’s right to access to information. This so with the Finance Ministry’s recent restrictions imposed on journalists, even those who are holding PIB accreditation cards, to enter its premises to carry out their rightful duties.
4 July 2019: The Indian Journalists Union condemns the deliberate targeting of journalists by the Chandigarh police with water cannons, while they were covering political parties protest against the government.
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