New Delhi/Guwahati 29 March 2024:  Indian Journalists Union (IJU) has expressed serious concern at the series off attack on media persons in different parts of the country. The union condemns attacks on journalists in Delhi during a Aam Admi Party (AAP) protest rally by Delhi police, wherein one journalist suffered fractures in his hand and the others were injured. 

27 March 2024: The Indian Journalists Union condemns the assault by Delhi police on photojournalists who were covering the protests by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers against arrest of Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal. The union demands that the police should apologise as well as action be taken against the erring officers.

New Delhi, 26 February 2024: The Indian Journalists Union salutes the journalists of Palestine the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) for their unrelenting commitment and determination to report on the war crimes being committed by the brutal Israeli regime. Tragically over 100 journalists have lost their lives since the war on Gaza and paid a heavy price to keep the world informed about terrible massacre. 

New Delhi, 14 February 2024: The Indian Journalists Union expresses grave concern over the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) directing The Caravan, to take down the story titled “Screams from the Army Post”. The Ministry asked for the removal of the story within 24 hours citing Section 69A of the Information Technology Act. This said the union amounts to curtailing freedom of the press and the citizen’s right to information.  

New Delhi, 10 February 2024: The Indian Journalists Union strongly condemns the attack on Maharashtra’s noted and senior journalist Nikhil Wagle in Pune on Friday by some persons reportedly belonging to a political party. The Union demanded that the culprits be brought to book immediately. 

New Delhi, 8 July 2024: The Indian Journalists Union expresses serious concern over the Uttar Pradesh police lodging FIRs against journalists Zakir Ali Tyagi and Wasim Akram Tyagi and three others on Friday for alleging on social media that a Muslim man Qureshi had been lynched by a mob in the Jalalabad town of Shamli district on Thursday. A day later Thana Bhawan police station also filed an FIR against YouTube channel Hindustani Media for promoting enmity between groups under section 196 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and circulating false information to promote enmity, under section 353(2). The Union demanded withdrawal of the FIRs.

New Delhi, 5 March 2024: The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) joins its affiliate, the J&K Media Guild in expressing serious concern over the rearrest of Kashmiri journalist Asif Sultan by Srinagar police on Thursday, 48 hours after he had been released from an Uttar Pradesh prison. Sultan had been languishing in jail for over five years and his rearrest smacks of concerted harassment by the authorities who are also making a mockery of the judicial system. The Union demands he be released immediately.

New Delhi, 8 March 2024: The Indian Journalists Union joins the International Federation of Journalists in standing with the women journalists in Gaza and on this International Women’s Day demands their safety and the end of the war atrocities, including any form of gender-based violence against women. The IJU also urged its state affiliates across the country to stand in solidarity with women journalists in Gaza and provide them with food, warm clothes, press equipment and women’s specific needs, and donate to the IFJ safety fund using communication “PJS-Women”. 

New Delhi, 24 January 2024: Expressing concern over the notice issued by Ministry of Home Affairs to a French journalist Vanessa Dougnac alleging ‘violations of Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) rule and guidelines’ and that the card could be revoked, the Indian Journalists Union urges the government to ensure justice and fair play and not indulge in strong accusations listed in the notice such as “malicious” reporting that creates a “negative perception” of India, inciting disorder, not taking permission for travelling to restricted areas and doing reporting on neighbouring countries. These, said the Union, smack of an act of vindictiveness, harassment and intimidation of the journalist and attack on press freedom. 

New Delhi/Guwahati, 7 January 2024: The Indian Journalists Union joins its affiliate, the Journalists Union of Assam in condemning the intimidation and ‘assault’ on Deepankar Medhi, Chief Reporter of news channel NB News, on Friday by Nagaon District Commissioner Narendra Kumar Shah. Both the IJU and JUA demand a thorough inquiry be conducted into the incident and strict action be taken against the culprits.

New Delhi, 24 October 2023: The Indian Journalists Union deplores the cancellation of a media award to Kashmiri journalist Safina Nabi last week, by Pune-based Maharashtra Institute of Technology-World Peace University (MIT-WPU), on grounds that some of her “published opinions and views…have the potential to be viewed as contentious and not in alignment with the foreign policy of the Indian Government”. Denying Nabi the award is yet another reminder of how journalists in Kashmir are being denied due recognition of their work, in most difficult circumstances and in this case the reason cited by the University itself suggests political pressure, though it chooses to deny it.