tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30515222719918657632024-03-19T00:17:37.233-07:00Voice Of MediaExpress and Explore Yourself Voice of Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640937315599396505noreply@blogger.comBlogger1472125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051522271991865763.post-22872566721092247212021-05-22T01:39:00.004-07:002021-05-22T01:44:12.590-07:00Open letter to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi by former civil servants on covid crisis in India<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Dear Prime Minister</b>,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">We, a group of former civil servants from the All India and Central Services, with a deep commitment to the Constitution of India and with no political affiliations, have written to you as well as other constitutional authorities on a number of occasions in the past, whenever we felt that executive actions violated the provisions of the Constitution.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZBbd68Bm5V0/YKjCk5Kw1AI/AAAAAAAAEow/dajSXX2Py64kNoMVfpwqfiI2D-I8LqiEQCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/Dear%2BPrime%2BMinister.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZBbd68Bm5V0/YKjCk5Kw1AI/AAAAAAAAEow/dajSXX2Py64kNoMVfpwqfiI2D-I8LqiEQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Dear%2BPrime%2BMinister.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Today, in the midst of the Covid pandemic and the suffering that has engulfed the people of our country, we write to you in anguish as well as in anger. We are aware that this pandemic threatens the entire world and is not going to leave the citizens of India untouched. And yet, what numbs our senses daily is not just the cries of the citizenry for medical assistance and the death toll in its thousands but the manifestly casual attitude of your government to the magnitude of the crisis and its implications for the mental and physical health of the community of Indians.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The steady erosion of the Cabinet system of governance, the worsening of federal relationships with the states, especially those governed by parties opposed to the party ruling at the centre, the lack of informed consultation with experts and Parliamentary committees, the failure to take the timely advice of expert committees and the absence of effective coordination with state governments have had disastrous consequences for the poor and disadvantaged and now for the better off sections of society as well.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Despite warnings from the international community and our own scientists, the breathing space between the first and the second waves was not used to augment critical resources such as medical staff, hospital beds, oxygen supplies, ventilators and drugs and other medical supplies. Even more inexcusably, no advance planning was done to secure adequate stocks of vaccines, despite India being one of the major vaccine suppliers to the world.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The complacency displayed by you and your ministerial colleagues at various forums not only diverted attention from the looming threat but probably also contributed to both state governments and citizens letting down their guard at a crucial juncture. As a result, your Atmanirbhar Bharat is today compelled to seek the help of the outside world to lessen the agony inflicted on its own people by your government.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Right from the outset of the pandemic in March 2020, your government has never systematically assessed the funds that state governments would need to tackle the pandemic. The PM-CARES fund was set up when there was already a Prime Minister National Relief Fund in place. No disclosures have been made regarding the funds collected and the expenditures on various items. This fund attracted to itself moneys which would otherwise have gone from corporates and the public to the various CM Relief Funds and to NGOs.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Your government has not been prompt in paying outstanding GST dues to the states, which could have helped them defray Covid care expenses. At the same time, your government has incurred unnecessary expenditure on the Central Vista redevelopment project; these funds could well have been more gainfully used to tackle the crisis. On top of this, the harsh restrictions imposed on NGOs, especially those obtaining foreign contributions, have hampered their efforts in providing relief during the pandemic.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">While the holding of elections to the legislative assemblies of four states and one union territory may have been unavoidable, you, Mr. Prime Minister, and your party functionaries threw all caution to the winds by conducting huge public rallies in different states, when a restrained campaign by your party would have served as a salutary example to other political parties.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Kumbh Mela at Haridwar was conducted with scant regard for Covid safety regulations. With two such “super spreader” events taking place just when the second surge of the virus was becoming a major threat, we are now witnessing the horrifying spectacle of the rampant spread of the Covid virus across the rural hinterland of the country.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Your government seems to be more concerned with managing the narrative of “efficient” management of the Covid crisis rather than addressing the crucial issues at stake. Even authentic data on the testing carried out in different states, the number of positive cases, the number of persons hospitalised and mortality figures have not been publicly disseminated. This has had serious implications for the adequate provision of necessary medical facilities in different states as well as for devising appropriate measures in different states to control the spread of the pandemic.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>We urge the Government of India to take the following actions immediately:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">● Provide for free, universal vaccination to all citizens of India. Government of India must centralize the procurement of vaccines from all available sources and supply them to state governments and all other implementing agencies.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">● Coordinate effectively with state governments to ensure the adequacy of oxygen facilities, essential lifesaving drugs and equipment and hospital beds in all States of the country.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">● Greatly ramp up RT-PCR testing in both rural and urban areas.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">● Make adequate funds available to the States for provision of medical facilities and stop expenditures on non-essential items like the Central Vista redevelopment project.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">● Draw on the existing surplus foodgrain stocks to provide free rations to the families of the marginalised and deprived sections of society as well as unorganised labour who have lost their employment opportunities until the ferocity of the pandemic and the hunger and livelihood crisis abates.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">● Fully provide, in consultation with state governments, for existing nutrition schemes for school going children and supplementary nutrition for mothers and children in the pre-school age groups.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">● Provide a monthly income support for the current financial year to the needy sections of society to enable them to meet contingent expenses and unforeseen emergencies. Economists have recommended Rs 7000 per month per household, equivalent to minimum wages.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">● Immediately remove the FCRA restrictions imposed on NGOs so that they can avail of funds provided by foreign governments and charities for Covid management and other related activities.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">● Place all data in the public domain and ensure that evidence-based policy measures are implemented.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">● Constitute an all-party committee at the central level to advise on and review all government decisions and monitor the control of the pandemic in different areas of the country.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">While the above constitute actions to be taken at the politico-administrative level, the most important action relates to building up the confidence and morale of a population hard hit by the loss of their near and dear ones. Compassion and caring have to be the cornerstones of government policy. History will judge our society, your government and, above all, you personally, on how effectively we handle this crisis.</span></p>Voice of Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640937315599396505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051522271991865763.post-62493735563794185772020-10-15T10:43:00.000-07:002020-10-15T10:43:00.177-07:00TRP Scam India: Mumbai police summon Republic TV's executive editor and journalist<script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mumbai</b>: The Mumbai Police on Tuesday issued a summons to Republic TV's executive editor and a journalist working with the channel in connection with the fake TRP racket it is probing, an official said.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iEBS4QdWsa8/X4iJdfY7QxI/AAAAAAAAElk/gU6Ex0RtV3cf__uxY3NKIX7B20mg3hr2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/Arnab-Goswami.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iEBS4QdWsa8/X4iJdfY7QxI/AAAAAAAAElk/gU6Ex0RtV3cf__uxY3NKIX7B20mg3hr2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Arnab-Goswami.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Niranjan Narayanaswamy, executive editor - news, and journalist Abhishek Kapoor have been summoned by the Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) at 12 noon on Wednesday, he said. </span><span>On October 10, Republic TV had aired a document, which purportedly belonged to Hansa Research Group and "there are reasonable grounds to believe that the summoned persons are acquainted with certain facts and circumstances of the document and same is required to be ascertained from them", the summons said.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The CIU on Tuesday recorded statements of Pravin Nizar and Nitin Deokar of Hansa agency. </span><span>The Special Investigation Team of the Crime Branch also visited the office of BARC and made enquiries with some officials including its scientific and technology officer, the police official said.</span>
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</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Vinay Tripathi, arrested by the CIU in the case, has been brought to the city on transit remand and four other accused who were arrested earlier in the case have been sent in police custody till October 16, he said. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The fake TRP scam came to light when ratings agency Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) filed a complaint through Hansa Research Group, alleging that certain television channels were rigging TRP numbers. </span><span>Hansa is one of BARC's vendors on engagement with panel homes or people's meters.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Last week, Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh had claimed that Republic TV and two Marathi channels -- Box Cinema and Fakt Marathi -- manipulated TRP. Republic TV rubbished Singh's claims.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">A CNN reporter was just about to go live on television when he was interrupted by a racoon outside the White House.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NjjTsRJYn4k/X4Hwyes8-XI/AAAAAAAAElY/kSKNram2KrQu8kVfj6YYLZR6FXPXUc4lACLcBGAsYHQ/s1100/joe-johns-racoon-encounter-super-tease.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="1100" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NjjTsRJYn4k/X4Hwyes8-XI/AAAAAAAAElY/kSKNram2KrQu8kVfj6YYLZR6FXPXUc4lACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/joe-johns-racoon-encounter-super-tease.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The encounter, which was caught on camera on Tuesday and was shared widely on social media shows CNN senior Washington correspondent Joe Johns shouting “get lost” and throwing something before he turns back to face the camera. </span><span>According to a CNN report, Johns was seconds away from going live to provide an update on the president’s health when he spotted the raccoon.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>His colleague Omar Jimenez who shared the video on Twitter captioned, “Protector of the night. The hero we deserve. Joe. Johns. The raccoons never stood a chance.” The video has received over 1.9 million views and 5.4k likes as netizens hail Johns’ racoon fighting skills.</span>
</span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-size: large;">Protector of the night.<br />The hero we deserve.<br />Joe. Johns. <br /><br />The raccoons never stood a chance. <a href="https://twitter.com/joejohnscnn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@joejohnscnn</a> <a href="https://t.co/ImyBjZXw42">pic.twitter.com/ImyBjZXw42</a></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">— Omar Jimenez (@OmarJimenez) <a href="https://twitter.com/OmarJimenez/status/1313841899472662531?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2020</a></span></blockquote> <span style="font-size: large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Some users are also asking if they could avail Johns services and get rid of the racoons at their locality. “Like a bouncer at a night club!” said one user, she further said, “Joe, Can you stop by and get rid of our racoons when you're done there? I like your style!” </span><span>While another Twitter user said this might be President Donald Trump’s way of attacking the media who have been critical of his administration.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Yerevan</b>: Two French and two Armenian journalists were injured Thursday in the South Caucasus separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, where heavy fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces this week marked the biggest escalation in years of a decades-old conflict.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C3Wa2DHJcmw/X3YXZEkJiDI/AAAAAAAAElI/-Z9dZ-AX00QPuNDtT8KTWWKMNUZVgd3NACLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/Armenia-Azerbaijan%2Bconflict.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C3Wa2DHJcmw/X3YXZEkJiDI/AAAAAAAAElI/-Z9dZ-AX00QPuNDtT8KTWWKMNUZVgd3NACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Armenia-Azerbaijan%2Bconflict.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The two Le Monde reporters were wounded in morning shelling in the town of Martuni, the newspaper said. Armenia’s Foreign Ministry said they were being taken to hospital, and accused Azerbaijan of bombarding the Martuni region. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">A cameraman with the Armenia TV channel and a reporter with the Armenian 24News outlet also sustained injuries in the Martuni shelling, Armenian officials said. It was unclear how badly the four journalists were hurt. A Russian journalist with the independent Dozhd TV channel was reported to have safely reached a bomb shelter.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh, a region within Azerbaijan that has been controlled by ethnic Armenian forces backed by the Armenian government since the end of a separatist war a quarter-century ago, broke out on Sunday and continued unchecked, killing dozens and leaving scores wounded. Armenian and Azerbaijani forces have been blaming each other for continuing attacks.</span>
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</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The two ex-Soviet nations have been locked for decades in a conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, where a separatist war was fought in the early 1990s, ending in 1994, three years after the breakup of the Soviet Union. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The 4,400-square-kilometer (1,700-square-mile) enclave in the Caucasus Mountains, roughly the size of the U.S. state of Delaware, lies 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the Armenian border.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Soldiers backed by Armenia occupy the region as well as some Azerbaijani territory outside of it. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The president of Azerbaijan said Armenia’s withdrawal from Nagorno-Karabakh was the sole condition to end the fighting. Armenian officials claim Turkey has become involved in the conflict, allegedly sending fighters from Syria to the region and deploying Turkish F-16 fighter jets to assist Azerbaijnai forces.</span>
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</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Turkey has publicly supported Azerbaijan in the conflict and said it would provide assistance if requested, but denies sending in foreign mercenaries or arms. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Continued fighting in the turbulent region prompted calls for a cease-fire from around the globe and raised concerns of a broader conflict potentially involving other regional powers.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday has expressed concern about Turkey allegedly sending Syrian mercenaries to support Azerbaijan. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Macron’s office said in a statement Thursday that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the issue in a phone call Wednesday night, and both share concern about the sending of Syrian mercenaries by Turkey to Nagorno-Karabakh.” Macron’s office did not provide further information about the mercenaries.</span>
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</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday expressed concerns over reports about “militants from illegal armed groups, in particular from Syria, Libya” being sent to the conflict zone in Nagorno-Karabakh. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The ministry didn’t provide further details, but in a statement urged the “leadership of the states concerned to take effective measures to prevent the use of foreign terrorists and mercenaries in the conflict”.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Macron said he and Putin called for restraint and agreed upon the need for a joint effort toward a cease-fire, as part of international mediation efforts for Nagorno-Karabakh led by Russia, France and the U.S. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Thursday refused to comment on Turkey’s alleged involvement in the conflict, but said that “any statements about military support for one of the (opposing) sides” can provoke further escalation of tensions in the region.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“We believe that any participation of third countries in this confrontation can also have extremely negative consequences,” Peskov told reporters.</span></p>
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</script>Voice of Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640937315599396505noreply@blogger.com0Yerevan, Armenia40.1872023 44.51520911.876968463821157 9.3589589999999987 68.497436136178848 79.671459tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051522271991865763.post-51192941948323812392020-10-01T10:43:00.004-07:002020-10-01T10:43:44.178-07:00IJNet: Journalist of the month- independent multimedia reporter Ahmer Khan, 28 years old<script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">At 28 years old, independent multimedia journalist Ahmer Khan has already been nominated for an Emmy for his work alongside a team of reporters on the film “India Burning.” The film, which is part of a series produced by VICE News and Showtime, spotlights the rise of Hindu nationalism in the country. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7Udp-BbcMuk/X3YUOo4DvgI/AAAAAAAAEk8/0BSLK1eNzeIyX_1uKAU-FLouxDu_R_6ygCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/ahmer%2Bkhan%2Bjournalist.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7Udp-BbcMuk/X3YUOo4DvgI/AAAAAAAAEk8/0BSLK1eNzeIyX_1uKAU-FLouxDu_R_6ygCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/ahmer%2Bkhan%2Bjournalist.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Khan was born and raised in Kashmir, a disputed territory between India and Pakistan. He has been reporting since 2013, when he was still in high school. Since then, Khan has worked on projects for various publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Radio France Internationale, Time, Buzzfeed and the Los Angeles Times covering conflicts, human rights and natural disasters.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“From natural disasters and humanitarian crises, to human rights, I have done it all. But I'm sure there’s still a long road ahead because I'm only 28,” reflected Khan. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In 2019, Khan won the Agence France Presse Kate Webb Prize honoring journalists working in difficult conditions in Asia. He also won the 2018 Lorenzo Natali Media Prize after discovering the contest on IJNet. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Also through IJNet, Khan took part in the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University’s annual four-day crisis zone reporting course. During the program, 16 freelance journalists received training on risk assessment, digital security and emergency first aid to prepare them for reporting in hostile environments. </span>
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</p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We spoke to Khan about his career as a young freelance journalist and his experiences reporting throughout Asia. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>IJNet: How did you begin working as a journalist?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Khan: I was 18-years-old in 2010 and, being from Kashmir, I saw public protests begin happening for the first time. Before this I had only heard about the militancy or public unrest in the 90s, in the early days of my life because I was born ‘92. I started my journey when I was in high school, and in college I did freelance work. [It] started with Al-Jazeera in 2014, and then there was no turning back. In my first year of college I went to Nepal to cover the 2015 earthquake that killed more than 10,000 people over there for VICE News. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I think the reason I went into journalism was because I saw a lot of trouble in my region in Kashmir, which prompted me to do some sort of reporting to report the truth from our region. I have always worked with international media, which is not as biased as national media in India, and I wanted to be a part of truthful and accurate journalism.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Has growing up in Kashmir affected your work reporting on conflicts?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Having a conflict at home, in your backyard, you tend to learn the trade tricks and what to be aware of. I’ve carried that with me into all my reporting. I've traveled across South Asia to report on other countries, for example, the Rohingya crisis, the crisis in Sri Lanka or Nepal and in mainland India. </span>
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</p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I also need to work on a lot of other stories which are unfolding in front of our eyes because South Asia is rapidly changing in every country right now.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Have any particular stories uniquely impacted you or your work?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I think the crisis which unfolded last August in Kashmir really impacted Kashmiri journalists in the sense that a lot of things have changed for journalists in Kashmir. For example, there's a Kashmiri journalist who was rounded up by police and then assaulted and slapped twice in the police station in the main city of Kashmir.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Because our work had become so restricted, I was traveling in 2019 between Kashmir and Delhi to get information and just to use internet connection because we had no internet at that time for several months. The government set up a small media center in Kashmir for the journalists to use, but there were hundreds of journalists and only four computers — state surveilled computers — allowed for us to use. I decided not to use them and I went to Delhi at least 16 times in the first two weeks. I used to come in the morning and go back in the evening, but we had to wrap up everything by four o'clock in the evening and then take a five o'clock flight because the airport security is a big hassle. It takes hours for us to get through the security check in Kashmir. That was really hard, but my work was awarded a couple of times earlier this year, including by AFP, which really brought me happiness. </span>
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</p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>What advice would you offer young independent journalists?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I've always said one thing: “If you're really good, or if the story is really good, it will be sold out no matter who you are or where you are.” </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Editors are always out looking for good stories. Obviously, budget cuts have happened recently, but that's everywhere, not in one part of the world. I think young journalists around the world need to understand that they don't need to think so much about their limitations and instead should think more about their work. Obviously there's a lot of competition out there, but if you believe in yourself, if you believe in your story and if the story is original and you touch the human part of it — because every story has a human part to whether it’s culture, sports, economics, human rights or conflict — I'm really confident that you'll be able to sell your story. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">There's a lot of cutthroat competition out there, there is no denying that, but if you do good stories, I think you’ll go far. courtesy: IJNet</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>➤Rukmini Sen</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Year 2012-2013. For one and a half years India Today group and I exchanged numerous mails about formation of a proper sexual harassment committee so that I could present my case against Mr Supriya Prasad. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wbha2Y3NCtY/X3SxCmKln6I/AAAAAAAAEkk/4gOjDrsSX2YASwDMhuzYeLLqSQJBWGhAACLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/Rukmini%2Bsen.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="981" data-original-width="1280" height="245" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wbha2Y3NCtY/X3SxCmKln6I/AAAAAAAAEkk/4gOjDrsSX2YASwDMhuzYeLLqSQJBWGhAACLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h245/Rukmini%2Bsen.jpg" title="Rukmini sen" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span>Rukmini Sen, Second from left. Photo FB</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Aroon Purie/Kalie Purie/ India Today group didn't take any action in my sexual harassment case for a year. They delayed the process of justice. </span><span>India Today Group/Aroon Purie/ Kalie Purie haven't done anything since then ie for last six years. </span><span>It took India Today Group one whole year to form a sexual harassment committee of sorts. However, this new SHC didn't have the mandatory external member in it (who was supposed to be either well known in the field of law or women's movement).</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>I insisted that I must be called in front of a proper sexual harassment committee and that my work place owed it to me. I also refused to present my case in front of a half baked SHC. </span><span>After a year and a half of my pursuing the case with the legal and HR team of India Today and my repeated refusal to present my case in front of a committee that didn't have the mandatory external member the fake committee sent me a mail that they had decided that Supriya Prasad (male Boss) was innocent because among some other vague reasons apparently I knew him from before...whatever that meant.</span>
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</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I read the survivor account of PHANTOM FILMS case. I have followed closely the Tarun Tejpal case also. I have learnt a lot from these survivor stories. I have understood yet again how my professional and personal life suffered because of that one complain and my public protest (without which India Today would not have taken any cognizance of the matter). Its been hard to accept that I have suffered in anyway. I have always believed and rightly so that I have been super lucky with support</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>One of my mentors was generous enough to offer me a job when I requested him for one in 2013. I have never been without work because of my thousand other friends for last four years.</span>
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</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I have also not been without work because I shamelessly ask for work. I ask for work like someone craving for an internship would . I have never been ashamed of labour. I am a worker and I need work. And yet I must confess that I have lost out monetarily. I have lost out on seniority at work. I am seen as a trouble maker by some because of that one complain and may be because of my larger feminist politics and my acute discomfort with sexism. However, it's been twenty three years of being a professional now. I have re-strategized my work life because partly I have had to and partly because I felt there were better ways of living my life. I have equipped myself with new skills.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>My morning mantra is simple - I was 21 when I left Lucknow for work. If I could survive then I will thrive now. And no fucking ex Boss can stop me from that. </span><span>I am aware of my privileges. A middle class upbringing. A Professor mother. A rock solid and doting father. A feminist younger brother. A bunch of cousins and friends who are fiercely committed to my well being .</span>
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</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In spite of all that the loneliness of being sidelined from the work that I loved for 18 long years is something I still find challenging to deal with. There are days when I wonder whether I should have just made a polite exit. It hurts me like hell when I get to know how some of my favourite mentors and friends engage with my harasser...take him out for friendly dinners. I should be angry. Very angry. I should be disappointed. I, however, feel utterly confused and hesitantly sad. Is this my internalised misogyny? Is this my lack of self worth I wonder!! Why is sexual harassment not processed as structural violence by some of the smartest people in media? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I would have taken Supriya Prasad to court but I picked up my battle carefully. My father had suffered a brain hamorrage in 2012. He had suffered multiple strokes before that. From 2013-2016 (till he lived) he had to go to hospital every month for blood transfusion as he suffered from internal bleeding. I chose my father's health over my self respect. Life is not a social construct. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I am aware that because of me India Today group has a sexual harassment committee today. I also know that my complaint is still a complaint.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span>
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</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I am absolutely sure that it makes Supriya Prasad anxious when he wants to lay his hand on any woman, kiss her (which he did with an India Today professional earlier. He was asked to resign that time) or generally humiliate a female colleague with sexist and misogynist comments. Every complaint acts as a deterrent. I have no doubt that mine must have done its bit.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Lastly, if tomorrow any woman is harassed by Supriya Prasad again and she wants me to testify with my case I promise to be the first in the line. In fact I have never walked away from the line. The system failed me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I will be happy to also discuss how Mr Aroon Purie and Kalie Purie are complicit in playing with the well being of their women professionals. There is no point holding India Today Conclave year after year, discussing violence against women but not identifying sexual harassment at work place as systemic violence. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I will also not say I was touched, kissed or fondled by Supriya Prasad. Because I wasn't. I was subjected to verbal sexism of worst order. That is part of rape culture. Sexist jokes, sexist insults , sexist outbursts, sexist sidelining at professional space are unacceptable and serious harassment. It has harmed my well being and harms the well being of thousands like me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I wrote about this extensively on Facebook in 2012. I am writing about it again. And yes as I have said earlier I did file a complain with the Sexual Harassment Committee of India Today. The ball is in their court.</span></p>
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</script>Voice of Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640937315599396505noreply@blogger.com0New Delhi, Delhi, India28.6139391 77.20902120.30370526382115415 42.052771199999995 56.924172936178849 112.3652712tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051522271991865763.post-73594994902453345532020-09-30T09:12:00.005-07:002020-09-30T09:15:08.370-07:00Corona crisis and increasing work pressure are putting journalist's lives in danger<script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Indore, Madhya Pradesh</b>: In the tension of work in the 70-year-old newspaper of the state, a senior journalist was killed yesterday. Employees are being exploited in newspapers due to the corona period. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Many employees have been chased away in the old newspaper Naidunia due to this. This has increased the work pressure on survivors. Management and editor are pressuring to work from remaining colleagues. In such a case, a senior journalist was killed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NJvOtBffD6c/X3SpK6QOzzI/AAAAAAAAEkY/Xd6hQ5DL0m8PV2TXKpZ_KxSuFNzrJF1rACLcBGAsYHQ/s960/The%2Bstress%2Bof%2Bwork.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NJvOtBffD6c/X3SpK6QOzzI/AAAAAAAAEkY/Xd6hQ5DL0m8PV2TXKpZ_KxSuFNzrJF1rACLcBGAsYHQ/w150-h200/The%2Bstress%2Bof%2Bwork.jpg" width="150" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">When output head Ujjwal Shukla asked Piyush Dixit to watch two editions together, Piyush Dixit said it is not possible to get so much work done at once. There was a debate between Piyush and Ujjwal Shukla regarding this. After some time, Piyush's blood pressure increased to a dangerous level. The colleagues lay Piyush on the sofa of the office and Kapish Dubey and Sameer Deshpande started massage Piyush's hands and feet. </span>
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<p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, all the physical activities of Piyush stopped suddenly and he also put his neck aside. Meanwhile, senior companion Ramnath Mutkule suddenly made pressure on his chest with hands, due to which his breath returned. After this, Piyush was taken to hospital and admitted. Work tension and pressure has now become on the lives of journalists. </span>
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</p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Last days old partner of Naidunia Marketing Mh. Iqbal had suddenly died. They came to office a day ago. It is said that they were being pressured for bringing political advertisements. Friends say they were in great stress over this. However, Piyush Dixit's health is fine. Everyone praised the efforts of fellow Ramnath Mutkule. While going to hospital, Piyush started crying and told his colleagues that he has small children and wife. He was more worried about his family not his life.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Washington, US: </b></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Trump administration has proposed a new rule to limit to four years the period of stay for non-immigrant international students and foreign media representatives.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P6JEwOTg224/X249N4aIIBI/AAAAAAAAEkM/AR9q5TBxCXUZUX0HmV_TfW8358Orfy-aQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1000/trump%2Bvisa.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1000" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P6JEwOTg224/X249N4aIIBI/AAAAAAAAEkM/AR9q5TBxCXUZUX0HmV_TfW8358Orfy-aQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/trump%2Bvisa.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It plans to cut the duration further to two years for those from certain countries under the F, J and I category visas, used for students, exchange visitors and media representatives, respectively. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Foreigners on these visas can currently stay for “duration of status”, or the period of course in case of students, and employment in case of media representatives. This applies also to the dependents of principal visa holders.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The proposed rule, published by the department of homeland security, will be open for comments for 30 days. But it was not clear when it will go into effect. President Donald Trump has only a few months to finalise the rule by January 2021, and longer if he is re-elected.</span><br />
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</p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">If he loses the November 3 election to Joe Biden, the Democrat will be under no obligation to implement it. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The duration of stay can be extended either by filing for extension with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) or by going back to their countries of origin for fresh visas.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The two-year rule will apply to people from countries that are either on state department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism or who have an overstay rate of over 10%. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“The significant increase in the volume of F academic students, J exchange visitors, and I foreign information media representatives poses a challenge to the Department’s ability to monitor and oversee these categories of non-immigrants while they are in the United States,” the notice said.</span>
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</p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The department added it is “concerned about the integrity of the programmes and a potential for increased risk to national security” from people on these visas.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">There are an estimated 200,000 Indian students in the US, which has admitted an estimated 1 million international students every year. Together, they have generated around $41 billion’s worth of economic activity and supported 450,000 jobs, according to the American Council on Education, which represents US colleges and universities. Incomes generated from foreign students are critical to the financial health of many US colleges.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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</script>Voice of Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640937315599396505noreply@blogger.com1Washington, USA47.7510741 -120.740138519.440840263821151 -155.8963885 76.061307936178849 -85.5838885tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051522271991865763.post-75714840309131653132020-09-25T11:44:00.001-07:002020-09-25T11:45:49.549-07:00Pakistan: FIA registered cases against 49 media persons & social media activists under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act<script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Islamabad, Pakistan</b>: “Biggest crackdown against journalists & social media activists to date in Pakistan. FIA register cases against 49 journalists & social media activists under PECA. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jzWfgKoC1Xo/X2458xECWbI/AAAAAAAAEkA/cnnQDahvPconQSrywcwWSjDpUxefuo6pACLcBGAsYHQ/s1512/mona%2Bkhan.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1484" data-original-width="1512" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jzWfgKoC1Xo/X2458xECWbI/AAAAAAAAEkA/cnnQDahvPconQSrywcwWSjDpUxefuo6pACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/mona%2Bkhan.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Names include Umar Cheema, Azaz Syed, Murtaza solang, Ammar masood, Asad A Toor, Bilalfqi etc,” Mubashir Zaidi tweeted on Thursday night. Zaidi, who hosts the popular talk show, Zara Hat Kay, didn’t give more details. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Journalist bodies have condemned the move and have demanded that the cases be withdrawn. The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists in a tweet vowed to hold countrywide protests if the government didn’t withdraw the cases.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In a statement, the FIA said the agency has received complaints against 49 social media activists from a few complainants with evidence. “Cases have been registered against these activists and the FIA is issuing notices to these activists shortly,” the agency said. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The FIA said strict action was likely to be taken against the individuals based on evidence that would be found to be detrimental to state institutions, especially the country’s security forces.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In a tweet after the FIA’s announcement, Murtaza Solangi, one of the journalists charged, said he would continue to fight for constitutionally guaranteed freedoms. “We shall not bow before fascist thuggery,” he tweeted, adding, “We shall not surrender our fundamental rights.”</span>
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</p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) condemned the FIA’s move, tweeting, “The HRCP is alarmed by the news in circulation that the FIA is registering cases against 49 journalists and social media activists under PECA regulations. We demand that the state refrain from such action and stop using the FIA to curb political dissent.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">A fortnight ago, global monitor Human Rights Watch (HRW) had stated in a report critical of the government that a week prior to that, Prime Minister Imran Khan had “asserted there is no media crackdown in Pakistan, and that he and his government are far more unprotected than the media”.</span></p><script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Srinagar, J&K</b>: </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">A journalist, who was summoned by cyber police over his article on alleged intimidation of Twitter users by police, has alleged that he was slapped at the police station and that the SP verbally abused his family.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E4IyaoQWlOQ/X2o4LPWj3JI/AAAAAAAAEjo/CrifJcQ0H4Mi_34NhuNv1S7tvcXBfqB2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s450/Auqib%2BJaveed.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="450" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-E4IyaoQWlOQ/X2o4LPWj3JI/AAAAAAAAEjo/CrifJcQ0H4Mi_34NhuNv1S7tvcXBfqB2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Auqib%2BJaveed.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Auqib Javeed, a Kashmir-based journalist, was summoned on September 18 after his story was published in Article 14, an online portal. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In a statement, the Cyber Police Station denied that Javeed was beaten and intimidated. SP Tahir Ashraf Bhatti said the police have already issued a statement. IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar told The Indian Express that “he would personally look into it”</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Javeed, an executive member of Kashmir Press Club (KPC), went to the police on September 19 along with two KPC executives. There, he said, he was slapped by a masked policeman. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Javeed alleged that SP Bhatti abused him. “He started abusing my mother and sister… He said I had maligned the image of cyber police.”</span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The police now admit the only thing wrong with the story <a href="https://twitter.com/AuqibJaveed?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AuqibJaveed</a>'s wrote for us was that we ran a photo of the old cyber police building. <br />And for this he was summoned, slapped, abused & detained there for over 5 hours. <a href="https://t.co/jZhMK1q27Y">https://t.co/jZhMK1q27Y</a></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">— Article 14 (@Article14live) <a href="https://twitter.com/Article14live/status/1308054591624245248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2020</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Javeed alleged that Bhatti was upset about the headline of his article and the accompanying picture of the old Cyber Police Station. “I called the editor, who quickly put out the note and tweet about the photograph… We refused to accept that the story itself was ‘fake and baseless’, as the SP insisted it was,” he said.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Cyber Police Station stated, “The allegations of excesses by police officials/officer, published subsequently by Article-14 and other social media handles are misleading and factually incorrect, hence refuted. (The) writer was called in the Cyber Police Station Kashmir in connection with clarification of facts mentioned in the article…The writer and other accompanying senior journalists regretted the incorrect detail and assured that story will be tweaked accordingly … Later they left for their respective destinations.”</span></p><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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</script>Voice of Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640937315599396505noreply@blogger.com0Srinagar34.0836708 74.79728255.7734369638211547 39.641032499999994 62.393904636178846 109.9535325tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051522271991865763.post-14874105334615416952020-09-22T10:13:00.002-07:002020-09-22T10:13:31.434-07:00India: Senior journalist and editor of U Nongsaiñ Hima Lambok Thabah passes away<script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Shillong, <span style="background-color: white;">Meghalaya</span></b>: </span><span style="font-size: large;">Senior journalist and editor of the oldest Khasi daily newspaper, U Nongsaiñ Hima, Lambok Thabah passed away on Tuesday morning following sudden illness. He was 52.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vciyYtYdNnY/X2ovtZE8dvI/AAAAAAAAEjc/mvZTDvmLxL8pTfEqBA3c3ZoKDoIkCWedACLcBGAsYHQ/s720/Lambok-Thabah.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="720" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vciyYtYdNnY/X2ovtZE8dvI/AAAAAAAAEjc/mvZTDvmLxL8pTfEqBA3c3ZoKDoIkCWedACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Lambok-Thabah.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Thabah’s sudden demise came as a shock to all his journalist colleagues in Shillong. He was an active member of the Shillong Press Club. Journalists in Shillong told Northeast Now that till 1 am on Tuesday, Thabah was busy texting in a WhatsApp group of media persons. No one realised that they would wake up on Tuesday with the news of Thabah’s death.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Lambok Thabah was extremely popular among the journalists and politicians, and was a perfect gentleman. During his 27 long years of service, Thabah started his career in journalism as a reporter of the Khasi daily Rupang in 1993.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In 2003, he took over as an Editor of U Nongsaiñ Hima. He had also worked with The Shillong Times for a brief period. As an editor, Thabah was hard working and honest. He is a recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award instituted by the Indian Express Group in 2014.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Thabah was awarded for his series of stories on denial of PDS items including rice and sugar to more than 20 families for years at Mawsynram village in East Khasi Hills. The families who were ostracized for demanding their rights, however, finally got justice after Thabah had written a series of reports on the issue.</span></p>
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</script>Voice of Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640937315599396505noreply@blogger.com0Shillong, Meghalaya, India25.5787726 91.8932535-2.7314612361788448 56.7370035 53.889006436178846 127.0495035tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051522271991865763.post-30209580805769048932020-09-21T11:26:00.002-07:002020-09-22T10:15:21.718-07:00Three years after Tripura journalist Santanu Bhowmik murder, family is still waiting for justice<script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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</span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Agartala, Tripura</b>:<span style="color: #747474;"> </span>Three</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> years after journalist Santanu Bhowmik was hacked to death while covering a political protest at Mandwi village in Tripura, his family is still waiting for justice.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UHgtJ3B2P2U/X2juqNnwC2I/AAAAAAAAEjQ/LKTDoFmjoVc-qmkLTOlI0d7uzn1432wvgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/journalist%2BSantanu%2BBhowmik.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UHgtJ3B2P2U/X2juqNnwC2I/AAAAAAAAEjQ/LKTDoFmjoVc-qmkLTOlI0d7uzn1432wvgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/journalist%2BSantanu%2BBhowmik.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Santanu Bhowmik, a journalist with Channel DinRaat, a local cable television channel, was killed on September 20, 2017. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speaking to indianexpress.com, Santanu’s mother Papri Nag Bhowmik, 55, Sunday said she wants to see her son get justice before she dies. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bhowmik, who serves in a clerical position with the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), said: “My son is gone. I just want to see his criminals brought to justice before I die. What else can I ask for?”</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
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</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Santanu’s sister Pinki Bhowmik, who was pursuing BSc in Horticulture outside Tripura at the time of his death, has now finished her studies and is staying with her mother. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">His estranged father Sadhan Bhowmik, who had expressed distrust in the then-Left government’s probe and sought CBI inquiry, could not be reached for comment.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Barely two months after Santanu’s killing, Sudip Dutta Bhowmik, of Syandan Patrika, a local Bengali newspaper, was shot inside Tripura State Rifles (TSR) 2nd battalion headquarters at RK Nagar in West Tripura on November 21. Their murders had been among the key issues on which Tripura’s 2018 Assembly polls were fought.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then-ruling CPI(M) had accused Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT) cadres of being involved in Santanu’s killing. However, IPFT, now a partner in the state government with the BJP, had rubbished the allegations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Left Front government had formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the issue, a move opposed by journalists, who demanded a CBI probe.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This demand found place in the BJP’s Vision Document for the Assembly polls, and shortly after taking charge, Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb handed over the case to the CBI. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, two years later, journalists are angry with the slow progress of the investigation. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">On Sunday, several memorial programmes were held for Santanu, where the demand to bring his killers to book was repeated.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Santanu’s news channel remembered him in a programme Sunday morning. Samir Dhar, Executive Editor of Channel DinRaat, offered floral tributes in memory of the late journalist and said, “We haven’t got justice for Santanu’s death yet. He was working to expose people conspiring to destabilise peace in the state. He was brutally killed”.</span><br />
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</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">A group of journalists under the banner of Tripura Assembly of Journalists (TAJ) held a condolence meeting in Santanu’s memory in front of Rabindra Shatabarshiki Bhawan in Agartala.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">TAJ Chairerson Subal Kumar Dey said, “Justice for Santanu is yet to come. The entire family is helpless today, though the previous government paid Rs 10 lakh compensation to them. The incumbent government has handed over investigation to the CBI, but is not interested in actual progress.” </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">A separate condolence meeting was held at the Agartala Press Club, where club secretary Pranab Sarkar offered tributes to Santanu.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In New York, it was the Washington Square News that first reported a covid-19 outbreak in a college dorm. In Gainesville, Fla., the Alligator is the newspaper that has been painstakingly updating a map of local cases. And the Daily Gamecock alerted the public to the ways that University of South Carolina officials were withholding information about covid-19 clusters.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PhMBHMX1R2c/X2jqbdlAZlI/AAAAAAAAEjE/mjl-ZapUA30swrUXA39KmzFr4KGAJt5wQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1100/College%2Bnewspaper%2Breporters%2Bare%2Bthe%2Bjournalism%2Bheroes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="1100" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PhMBHMX1R2c/X2jqbdlAZlI/AAAAAAAAEjE/mjl-ZapUA30swrUXA39KmzFr4KGAJt5wQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/College%2Bnewspaper%2Breporters%2Bare%2Bthe%2Bjournalism%2Bheroes.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">While the pandemic economy has devastated the local news business, there remains a cadre of small newspapers that are more energized than ever, producing essential work from the center of the nation’s newest coronavirus hot spots. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Those would be college newspapers, whose student journalists have been kept busy breaking news of campus outbreaks, pushing for transparency from administrators and publishing scathing editorials about controversial reopening plans.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“I do feel and I know the staff feels a sense of responsibility,” said Jacob deCastro, editor in chief of the Indiana Daily Student at Indiana University. “We want to make sure people know what’s going on both on-campus and off-campus so they can make informed choices. We also want to hold the university accountable in keeping students safe and making sure they’re using our tuition dollars to keep us safe, to keep the community safe.”</span><br />
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</p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Working for a college newspaper is a rite of passage for many budding journalists, who get hands-on experience in the kind of reporting and editing they learn about in classrooms. But the pandemic has also demonstrated how valuable this brand of journalism is for the broader public. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Student-run newspapers have been reporting about the prevalence of covid-19 at fraternity and sorority houses, in campus residences halls and among student athletes. Professional media outlets have been crediting them for scoops, like the one at NYU. And student newspaper editorials taking school administrators to task for reopening plans — like Notre Dame’s the Observer’s front-page editorial titled “Don’t make us write obituaries" and the University of North Carolina’s Daily Tar Heel’s f-bomb headline — have made national news.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“If we weren’t covering these efforts and if we weren’t diving deeper into these issues — I shudder to think about it,” said Elizabeth Lawrence, editor in chief of the Michigan Daily, which has extensively covered covid-19 strikes by graduate students and resident advisers at the University of Michigan, where testing is limited. “The fact that we’re able to keep the conversation on this and really bring it to so many people, is part of the reason the university just feels it needs to respond to it.”</span><br />
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</p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">UNC-Chapel Hill’s student newspaper sums up school’s coronavirus policy with an f-bomb </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">The Michigan Daily had been the only daily newspaper in Ann Arbor for the past decade, but this semester they’ve cut back to printing a physical newspaper just once a week. It’s a move other college newspapers have made because of pandemic-related declines in ad revenue.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">But that doesn’t mean they are cutting back on coverage, as they keep up with issues including anti-racism protests and campus preparations for Election Day. The Alligator at the University of Florida has even added new beats to cover the Gainesville area. While the city has a professional daily newspaper, its staff is relatively small, while the Alligator has nearly 60 people on staff, and “we can fill in a bunch of gaps,” said editor in chief Kyle Wood.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“We’re doing our best to hold the university accountable if and when that’s necessary" he added, as well as disseminating campus covid-19 information. "But one of our focuses this semester is not to sacrifice any coverage of the university and also expand out into the community. We’re trying to become the community newspaper.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The contracting media industry has left few local outlets with dedicated higher-education reporters, leaving student journalists as “really the best watchdogs” in this moment, said Frank LoMonte, director of the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information at the University of Florida."They’re the ones who are going to get the invites to parties, and they’re the ones whose friends are going to be reporting symptoms, and they’re following all the right people on social media, so they know first when there’s an outbreak or when there are unsafe conditions."</span><br />
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</p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The coronavirus crisis is devastating the news industry. Many newspapers won’t survive it. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Readers are responding. College newspaper websites are breaking online readership records with stories for students, faculty — and, increasingly, parents who are "sending their students off and they’re really not getting that many answers from the university,” said the Daily Gamecock editor in chief Erin Slowey.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Her reporters’ biggest challenge is “not being able to get people on the record” for stories about the pandemic. “People are very fearful over their jobs, whether they work in housing or had an experience in the quarantine dorm.”</span><br />
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</p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Indeed, one of the main setbacks facing student journalists is accessing public information about covid-19. Universities have often cited the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a federal law protecting student education records, “as an excuse to not release data that should be released,” said Hadar Harris, executive director of the Student Press Law Association. Her organization is also hearing from student journalists who are “seeing a slowing down, if not complete cessation, to open records requests.” </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Universities can’t use privacy laws to withhold data on coronavirus outbreaks, experts say</span><br />
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</p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">College newspapers have long been filled with journalists who sometimes think of the school newspaper as their actual major. The pandemic has pushed these students to work even harder, as they juggle reporting duties with the same concerns facing the rest of the student body, from navigating the complex maze of in-person and virtual classwork to financial troubles. And then there’s mental and emotional toll of covering a pandemic that has killed nearly 200,000 people in the United States. “I’ve been doing a lot of our updates on testing data, and seeing those numbers at times can be overwhelming,” said Matt Cohen, enterprise reporter for the Indiana Daily Student.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Still, Cohen and his peers, like their professional journalism colleagues, talk about their sense of duty and drive in covering the biggest news story of their lifetimes. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">“IU is one of the larger campuses in the United States, and having this many students back in person for classes is a big deal,” Cohen said. “Telling the stories of what’s going on so people can have a sense of this is something that impacts everyone’s lives.”</span></p>
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</script>Voice of Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640937315599396505noreply@blogger.com0United States37.09024 -95.7128918.780006163821156 -130.869141 65.400473836178847 -60.556641tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051522271991865763.post-1443247034861933752020-09-21T10:49:00.003-07:002020-09-21T10:49:30.868-07:00Former Australian reporter in Beijing said his 14-year-old daughter was threatened with detention<script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> A former ABC reporter in Beijing said Monday that he and his 14-year-old daughter were threatened with detention before they left China two years ago.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hR6-rXuo2lo/X2jlYFsRStI/AAAAAAAAEi4/QLOTropqjJ4QdMFqRh-1wX-q1NFUppkGwCLcBGAsYHQ/s917/ABC%2BAustralian%2Bjournalist.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="917" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hR6-rXuo2lo/X2jlYFsRStI/AAAAAAAAEi4/QLOTropqjJ4QdMFqRh-1wX-q1NFUppkGwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/ABC%2BAustralian%2Bjournalist.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Matthew Carney said he had not revealed the 2018 incident until now because he had wanted to avoid “negative consequences” for Australian Broadcasting Corp.’s operations in China. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Two weeks ago reporters for the state-funded ABC and The Australian Financial Review newspaper became the last two Australian journalists working for Australian media to leave China due to threats of detention.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Carney was the ABC’s China bureau chief in 2018 when Australia passed laws outlawing covert foreign interference in domestic politics, which he said “outraged” China. Carney said the laws started “three months of intimidation and all types of threats” for him and his family.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carney told his story in an interview aired on ABC radio and in an account posted on the news organization’s website Monday. There was no immediate response from China. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carney said he was told to bring this 14-year-old daughter, Yasmine, to a Beijing Public Security facility where interrogations and detentions were the norm.</span><br />
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</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A woman official told him that he and his daughter were being investigated for a “visa crime.” </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Your daughter is 14 years old. She is an adult under Chinese law and as the People’s Republic of China is a law-abiding country she will be charged with the visa crime,” Carney said he was told.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He said the woman said his daughter could be detained “with other adults” in an undisclosed location. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">“She was obviously very skilled in interrogation and in ramping up the fear and the panic,” Carney said. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carney said he offered to leave China with his wife and three children the next day, but was told he could not leave the country while he was under investigation.</span><br />
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</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With his visa due to expire within days, the official said he could be placed in detention. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">After consultation with the Australian Embassy and the ABC, Carney said he decided to confess his guilt and apologize for the “bizarre visa violation,” on condition that his daughter was allowed to stay with the family.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Their confessions were video recorded and the woman told him she would write a report to “the higher authority” for judgment. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">With the family’s visas about to expire, the official said the judgment could be weeks away. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">But he got a phone call the next day and was told two-month extensions had been granted to their visas.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He said he thought it was “some bizarre theater” to send a message to himself and Australia’s government that “A, if you do bad reporting, B, if your government is going to introduce harsh laws we don’t agree with, well then there is a price to be paid?”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“In retrospect, that’s what I think it was, thank God. They didn’t follow through on their threats,” Carney said. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carney said he made the sudden decision to leave China after a Chinese woman threatened to sue him for defamation over a story he reported about Chinese attempts to engineer better citizen behavior.</span><br />
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</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He had legal advice that that he would be banned from leaving once legal proceedings were initiated against him. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Australia updated its travel advice in July to warn its citizens of potential arbitrary detention on security grounds in China.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Chinese-Australian spy novelist and blogger Yang Hengjun has been detained in China since he arrived on a flight from New York in January last year in what some suspects is a Chinese reaction to deteriorating bilateral relations. The 55-year-old has since been charged with endangering state security.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Chinese foreign ministry said the day the last two Australian journalists working for Australian media in China left the country that Australian citizen Cheng Lei, a business news anchor for CGTN, China’s English-language state media channel, had been detained on suspicion of national security crimes.</span></p>
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</script>Voice of Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640937315599396505noreply@blogger.com0Beijing, China39.904199899999988 116.407396311.593966063821142 81.2511463 68.214433736178833 151.56364630000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051522271991865763.post-30985165241757716392020-09-19T11:20:00.003-07:002020-09-19T11:26:44.761-07:00India: Delhi Journalist Rajeev Sharma arrested on charges of spying, sold sensitive information to Chinese intelligence agencies<script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>New Delhi</b>: A freelance journalist who was arrested on charges of spying two days ago, was allegedly passing on sensitive information to Chinese intelligence agencies, said Delhi police on saturday</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">, claiming to have a busted a major spying operation amid soaring tensions between the two countries.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qOaMidAXKcc/X2ZIqmozNOI/AAAAAAAAEis/oVIqDHNRl-Y_LuPPtuck1UzBfTVLt5QmACLcBGAsYHQ/s650/journalit%2Brajiv%2Bsharma%2Barrested.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="650" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qOaMidAXKcc/X2ZIqmozNOI/AAAAAAAAEis/oVIqDHNRl-Y_LuPPtuck1UzBfTVLt5QmACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/journalit%2Brajiv%2Bsharma%2Barrested.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Delhi Police said it has also arrested a Chinese woman and her Nepalese associate, and claimed that they were paying huge amounts of money to the freelance journalist Rajeev Sharma for allegedly providing sensitive information.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Special Cell has arrested a freelance journalist, Rajeev Sharma, for passing sensitive information to Chinese intelligence. One Chinese lady and her Nepalese associate have also been arrested for paying him large amounts of money routed through shell companies. Chinese intelligence tasked the journalist for conveying sensitive information in lieu of large amounts of money," the police said.</span><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-5002202119382930" data-ad-slot="1373060413" style="display: inline-block; height: 60px; width: 468px;"></ins>
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</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Huge number of mobile phones, laptops and other incriminating and sensitive material have been recovered," the police said. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mr Sharma, a journalist accredited with the Press Information Bureau (PIB) who lived in Delhi's Pitampura, was arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police on Monday.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">"He was found to be in possession of some classified defence-related documents. The investigation is in progress and further details will be shared in due course," senior police officer Sanjeev Kumar Yadav had said on Friday.</span><br />
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</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to the police, Mr Sharma was getting $1,000 for each piece of information and was paid Rs. 30 lakh in one-and-a-half years. He wrote on defence-related issues for China's Global Times and was contacted by Chinese agents in 2016, the police said.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sharply criticising the arrest the "well-known independent journalist of long standing", the Press Club of India (PCI) called the move "high-handed" and alleged that it "may be inspired by obscure or questionable considerations".</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">"This is on account of the dubious track record of the Special Cell. More generally also, the record of Delhi Police is hardly a shining one," it said.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Of late, Delhi Police, including its Special Cell, have made preposterous arrests under the lawless law called UAPA (Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act) in which the word of the government is enough to keep an innocent person behind bars for long periods. These have happened in matters relating to anti-CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) protests and the carefully designed communal killings in the so-called February 2020 riots in northeast Delhi," the PCI said. </span><br />
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</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The arrests come amid a months-long border standoff between India and China in Ladakh that peaked on June 15, when 20 Indian soldiers were killed in the line of duty - a first in more than four decades. Even after that, there have been repeated attempts by the Chinese troops to recapture the heights occupied by the Indian soldiers.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni, who was sentenced to three years in prison by an Algiers court last month, was re-sentenced to a reduced prison term of two years on September 15, Tuesday, following an appeal. This was announced in a statement released by the National Committee for the Release of Detainees. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NXVc74pQNto/X2Oh3qgISxI/AAAAAAAAEig/7R5pOlobEa4Hr0GJUf24JRX1IEDt_gf3wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/Algerian%2BJournalist%2BKhaled%2BDrareni.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="1024" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NXVc74pQNto/X2Oh3qgISxI/AAAAAAAAEig/7R5pOlobEa4Hr0GJUf24JRX1IEDt_gf3wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Algerian%2BJournalist%2BKhaled%2BDrareni.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The Sidi M’hamed court in Algiers had on August 10 sentenced Drareni to a three-year prison term, along with a fine of 50,000 Algerian Dinars (around USD 400). Two other co-defendants, Hirak movement activists Samir Benlarbi and Slimane Hamitouche, were also sentenced to two years in prison along with Drareni. The two have now received reduced sentences of four months in prison each, and a one year-suspended prison term. They were released on the time served.</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-5002202119382930" data-ad-slot="1373060413" style="display: inline-block; height: 60px; width: 468px;"></ins>
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</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Drareni was arrested on March 29 while he was covering the anti-establishment Hirak (movement) protests that have swept Algeria for over a year. He was charged with “inciting an unarmed gathering” and “endangering national unity”, as well as for criticising Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune and the government on social media. He had called out the government for widespread corruption and political mismanagement of the country, which were the primary causes for the rise of the Hirak protests. Drareni had also expressed solidarity with the Hirak protesters and encouraged them to continue the protest until they achieve their goals of political, social and economic reform in Algeria.
</span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Last week, <a href="https://twitter.com/TLHumanRights?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TLHumanRights</a> Co-Chairs <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMcGovern?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMcGovern</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/RepChrisSmith?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepChrisSmith</a> wrote to the Algerian Ambassador expressing their concerns for press freedom in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Algeria?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Algeria</a> and calling for the unconditional release of journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KhaledDrareni?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#KhaledDrareni</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Journalismisnotacrime?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Journalismisnotacrime</a> <a href="https://t.co/ULDN5YajUG">https://t.co/ULDN5YajUG</a></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">— Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (@TLHumanRights) <a href="https://twitter.com/TLHumanRights/status/1306610603528781824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2020</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Chekib Drareni, Khaled’s brother, denounced the court’s judgement, saying in a tweet that he is “disgusted, shocked and disappointed by the court’s decision, which once again reinforces injustice in Algeria.” Drareni’s lawyer, Mustapha Bouchachi, told reporters that the defense team now intends to appeal to the Algerian supreme court. Several international press freedom and human rights organisations, including Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Amnesty International, also condemned the court’s judgement.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">RSF secretary general, in a statement responding to the verdict, said, “We are outraged by the blind stubbornness of the Algerian judges who have just condemned (Drareni) to 2 years in prison. Khaled’s detention proves the regime locks itself into a logic of absurd, unfair and violent repression.” Amnesty International demanded the unconditional release of Drareni and other activists, lawyers, journalists and political prisoners who are being unjustly detained by government authorities.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-5002202119382930" data-ad-slot="1373060413" style="display: inline-block; height: 60px; width: 468px;"></ins>
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</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">An international campaign launched to secure Drareni’s release has organised rallies in cities in multiple countries in the last few weeks. Journalists affiliated to the National Khaled Drareni Support Committee organised a rally on September 14, Monday, at the Tahar-Djaout press house in Algiers. Journalists have been gathering at the press house for the last three weeks in support of Drareni and to demand his release. Similarly, French journalists staged a rally last week outside the Algerian embassy in Paris to apply international pressure on the Algerian government. Tunisian journalists also demonstrated in front of their union’s headquarters on the same day to show their solidarity and support for Drareni and demand his release.</span></p></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>New Delhi</b>: Senior journalist Rajdeep Sardesai should not be prosecuted for contempt, the attorney general has said, rejecting requests to file a case against the television news anchor for tweets that were accused of criticising the Supreme Court. </span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-srEHMjgA0L0/X2OdDDsUY9I/AAAAAAAAEiU/gdd3Q7RnX9oH4xpjJFiNbOHNOUgEjdpfACLcBGAsYHQ/s780/rajdeep-sardesai-and-sc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="780" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-srEHMjgA0L0/X2OdDDsUY9I/AAAAAAAAEiU/gdd3Q7RnX9oH4xpjJFiNbOHNOUgEjdpfACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/rajdeep-sardesai-and-sc.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Attorney General KK Venugopal's office had received a request to begin contempt proceedings against Mr Sardesai for his comments on the Supreme Court ruling that found senior advocate Prashant Bhushan guilty of contempt last month. The petitioner had reportedly mentioned a number of tweets by the journalist on</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> the day the court fined M</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">r Bhushan Rs. 1 for his social media posts on the judiciary and the Chief Justice. </span></span><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Rejecting the request to prosecute Mr Sardesai, the attorney general said, "Trifling remarks and mere passing criticism though perhaps distasteful are unlikely to tarnish the image of the institution."<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
Last month, Mr Venugopal declined permission to an advocate to file a contempt plea against actor Swara Bhasker for comments on the Supreme Court's verdict in the Babri Masjid and Ayodhya land dispute case. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Cases for contempt have drawn increased public interest after lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan was held guilty of the same charge last month that have stoked discussions on free speech and dissent. Mr Bhushan, the court ruled, had crossed a line in making comments about the judiciary.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: AG KK Venugopal declines consent for initiation of criminal contempt proceedings against <a href="https://twitter.com/sardesairajdeep?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sardesairajdeep</a> for a series of statements made on Twitter. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CriminalContempt?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CriminalContempt</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ContemptofCourt?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ContemptofCourt</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SupremeCourtOfIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SupremeCourtOfIndia</a> <a href="https://t.co/EnHiAUhPV7">pic.twitter.com/EnHiAUhPV7</a></p>— Live Law (@LiveLawIndia) <a href="https://twitter.com/LiveLawIndia/status/1306525443210620930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Mr Bhushan, in his defence, said he considered his tweets "as an attempt for working for the betterment of the institution", and that open criticism was necessary to safeguard democracy in India. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The attorney general, who had himself filed a contempt petition in the Supreme Court against Mr Bhushan last year for comments on the appointment of former interim chief of CBI M Nageswara Rao, this time, urged the court to ignore the veteran lawyer's tweets.</span></div></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>New Delhi</b>: <span style="background-color: white;">Indian-American filmmaker</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>Mira Nair, two episodes of whose six-part television series "A Suitable Boy" will close the 45th Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, received the Jeff Skoll Award for Impact Media on Monday evening at a remotely conducted TIFF Tribute Awards ceremony.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The presentation of the award to Nair was initiated by Tabu, star of "A Suitable Boy" as well as the director's critically acclaimed 2006 drama "The Namesake". </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The actor said: When Mira Nair was a kid, she asked herself, can art change the world? She has proven it can. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">And in doing so, the filmmaker has, Tabu added, set the very highest standards of cinema .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Nair was one of six recipients of the TIFF Tribute Awards alongside octogenarian actor Sir Anthony Hopkins, Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet, Chinese-American filmmaker Chloe Zhao (whose Venice Golden Lion-winning Nomadland is one of the highlights of TIFF 2020), indigenous Canadian director Tracey Deer and musician Terence Blanchard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In her acceptance speech, Mira Nair said: When I work, it feels like fun, so I really want to thank the Toronto International Film Festival for giving me an award to have my fun and to be part of the extraordinary privilege of being able to make cinema.</span><br />
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After years of loving & matchmaking, I offer you <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/asuitableboy?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#asuitableboy</a>. <br />
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May you enjoy the ride. <br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Nair, who divides her time between homes in New York City, Kampala and New Delhi, added: I have often said if we don't tell our own stories no one else will. But it doesn't stop there. In telling these stories, I have also discovered the power of listening, of the possibility of making bridges, the possibility of translation, of being porous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The award tells me, Nair said, that my art and my films have actually made change. That is such a beautiful feeling. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The filmmaker signed off by saying, I accept the award in honour of all the stories that held the idiosyncratic, the unseen, the unspoken, the unsaid, and the baffling. Here's to them and they happen everywhere in the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The TIFF Tribute Awards is an annual fundraiser held as part of the festival that is regarded as one of the most important launching pads for cinema and a bellwether for the Oscars. The awards honour the film industry's outstanding contributors and their achievements.</span><br />
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I've read Vikram Seth's gorgeous novel seven times at least— and I never thought possible the beautiful & evocative version made by <a href="https://twitter.com/MiraPagliNair?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MiraPagliNair</a> for the screen. Breathtaking. <a href="https://t.co/CYMOGWTTQt">pic.twitter.com/CYMOGWTTQt</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Sir Anthony Hopkins's TIFF Tribute Actor Award was presented by Olivia Colman, his on-screen daughter in the film "The Father", which is part of the festival programme. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Accepting his award, the 82-year-old actor said: I am astonished that I am still in work at my age.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In its new report, Safety of Journalists Covering Protests – Preserving Freedom of the Press During Times of Civil Unrest, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural agency (UNESCO) said that between January and June this year, journalists have been increasingly attacked, arrested and even killed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Launching the report, UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay underscored that the freedom to inform citizens on the causes of unrest and the response from State authorities, are of vital importance for democracies to thrive. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“Journalists have a critical role in reporting and informing audiences on protest movements”, she said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">UNESCO’s findings reveal a “wider upward trend” in the use of unlawful force by police and security forces over the last five years, with more than 30 protests impeded by police and security forces last year alone – double the 2015 number.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The report finds that during this period, global protests have been rooted in concerns over economic injustice, government corruption, declining political freedoms and growing authoritarianism. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It details a wide range of abuses journalists face when covering protests, from harassment, intimidation and beatings, to being shot at with lethal or non-lethal ammunition, detention and abduction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Citing the Committee for the Protection of Journalists, UNESCO said that in some protests, up to 500 separate violations occurred. And during demonstrations linked to the Black Lives Matter movement for greater racial justice, these included the use of rubber bullets and pepper balls, which led to the blinding of several journalists. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ms. Azoulay pointed out that “for many years, UNESCO has been raising global awareness” to ensure that journalists can do their jobs, “without fear of persecution” and has continued to train “security forces and the judiciary on international norms in freedom of expression”. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">However, the UNESCO chief warned the figures in the report “show that much greater efforts are needed”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><u>Ensuring better protection</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The report also contains concrete recommendations for all actors – from media outlets and national authorities to international organizations – to ensure better protections for journalists. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Strengthening training for police and law enforcement on freedom of expression and appropriate behaviour in dealing with the media, is just one of the proposals outlined in the Safety of Journalists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Others include providing appropriate training and equipment to journalists, including freelancers, sent to cover demonstrations as well as appointing national ombudsmen to hold police accountable for the use of force against journalists during demonstrations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><u>Standing shoulder-to-shoulder</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">UNESCO provides technical assistance to Member States, including training for police and security forces on upholding press freedom and freedom of expression. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“We call on the international community and all relevant authorities to ensure that these fundamental rights are upheld”, the UNESCO chief stated.</span></div>
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Voice of Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640937315599396505noreply@blogger.com0United States37.09024 -95.712891-36.4162205 99.052733999999987 90 69.521484tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051522271991865763.post-58384538364313621322020-09-15T11:02:00.000-07:002020-09-15T11:03:29.072-07:00Supreme court of India said, need to regulate electronic media; most of the channels are running for TRPs, leading to more sensationalism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>New Delhi</b>: There is a need to regulate the electronic media as most of the channels are running for TRPs, leading to more sensationalism, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday even as the Centre batted for journalistic freedom saying it would be disastrous for any democracy to control the press.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The apex court, making clear it is not suggesting censorship on media, said there should be some kind of self-regulation in the media. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Regulating internet is very difficult but we need to regulate the electronic media now, a bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud said. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The top court said this while hearing a plea which has raised grievance over Sudarshan TV's Bindas Bol' programme whose promo had claimed that the channel would show the 'big expose on conspiracy to infiltrate Muslims in government service'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">While the apex court said that some kind of self-regulation in media was needed, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta argued that freedom of journalist is supreme. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It would be disastrous for any democracy to control press, Mehta told the bench, also comprising Justices Indu Malhotra and K M Joseph.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The bench restrained Sudarshan TV from telecasting two episodes of 'Bindas Bol' programme, scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, saying it prime facie appears to vilify the Muslim community. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">During the hearing conducted through video-conferencing, the apex court said that most of the channels are running for TRPs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mehta said sometimes certain channels are being used for providing the medium to accused to point his or her views. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mehta also said that it needs to be seen if a potential accused could be given a platform to air his or her defense. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The problem with electronic media is all about TRPs, thus leading to more and more sensationalism. So many things masquerade as a form of right, the bench observed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We are not saying states will impose any such guidelines as it would be an anathema to Article 19 of freedom of speech and expression, the bench said. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The apex court said the electronic media has become more powerful than print media and we have not been supportive of pre-broadcast ban.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I am not necessarily saying that electronic media should be regulated by the state but there must be some kind of self-regulation, Justice Chandrachud said, adding, We are talking about the electronic media and not about the social media at the moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mehta said that there should be some kind of self-regulation but the freedom of journalist has to be maintained. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">No freedom is absolute let me make myself clear on this, Justice Joseph told the solicitor general. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mehta told the bench that few years ago, some channels were saying Hindu terror, Hindu terror.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We are talking about the electronic media as today people may not read newspapers but may watch electric media, the bench said. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Reading newspapers may not have entertainment value but the electronic media has got some entertainment value, it added.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The bench then referred to the criminal investigation being carried out by some media houses. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">When journalists operate, they need to work around right to fair comment. See criminal investigation, media often focuses only one part of the investigation, it said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">What are you doing?, the bench asked the counsel appearing for the News Broadcasters Association. We need to ask you if you exist apart from the letter head. What do you do when a parallel criminal investigation goes on in media and reputation is tarnished? </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The bench observed that the law does not have to regulate everything to regulate something.</span></div>
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Voice of Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640937315599396505noreply@blogger.com0New Delhi, Delhi, India28.6139391 77.209021228.3907261 76.8862977 28.8371521 77.53174469999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051522271991865763.post-72849453911725108682020-09-13T11:16:00.000-07:002020-09-13T11:19:32.280-07:00Reporter shares funny video of his piece to camera, A twitter user wrote It’s like a glitch in the Matrix, that’s inspired<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Joe Tidy, cyber reporter for the BBC News, himself took to Twitter to share the hilarious video and now it has made many laugh out loud.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“Congratulations to the two lads who sneakily ruined my best piece to camera from a recent filming assignment in Germany,” Tidy wrote. “Honestly I’m not even mad, this is inspired. Didn’t even spot it until in the edit,” he added along with two clapping hands and one tears of joy emojis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Since being shared on September 11, the video has gathered over 3.6 lakh views – and the numbers are only increasing. Additionally, it has also amassed close to 18,600 likes and nearly 2,600 retweets. People couldn’t stop sharing all sorts of responses to the video.</span></div>
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Voice of Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640937315599396505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051522271991865763.post-13129284659520240982020-09-13T10:53:00.000-07:002020-09-13T10:54:18.780-07:00LAist Journalist Josie Huang Released After Arrest For Obstructing Justice In Confrontation Outside Hospital<script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>California, US</b><span style="color: #70757a;">: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">LA</span>ist reporter Josie Huang has been released from county jail after being arrested Saturday night while covering a protest outside St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">After the Saturday night shooting of two L.A. County Sheriffs, a crowd gathered outside St. Francis Medical Center, where the shooting victims were taken. The crowd blocked the emergency entrance and exit and chanted, “We hope they die,” the sheriff’s department said in a tweet. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Huang, an award-winning journalist, was arrested for allegedly obstructing justice. Video shows at least five deputies pinning Huang to the pavement, handcuffing her, and placing her in a patrol car.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The department initially refused to provide details of what happened, but later, Deputy Juanita Navarro of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau confirmed that deputies took Huang into custody on suspicion of obstruction of justice by “interfering with a lawful arrest.” Huang says she was trying to document the rest of a protester.</span><br />
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ABC7 showing video of radio reporter being taken down to the pavement by officers, handcuffed and led to a patrol car outside of hospital where two <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LA?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LA</a> County deputies shot in ambush are being treated <a href="https://twitter.com/LASDHQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LASDHQ</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/crime?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#crime</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SoCal?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SoCal</a> <a href="https://t.co/rTg1UdeDKA">pic.twitter.com/rTg1UdeDKA</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Navarro also said Huang “didn’t have proper credentials,” but video shows she was wearing press credentials around her neck. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">KPCC, the Southern California Public Radio station which runs LAist, issued this official statement: “We offer condolences to the two sheriff deputies who were shot Saturday evening. These are challenging and stressful times for everyone, but Josie Huang was arrested while doing her job. The charges should be dropped.</span><br />
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This is disturbing news! I’ve worked with <a href="https://twitter.com/josie_huang?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@josie_huang</a> at KPCC. Her journalistic integrity, judgement, and compassion is stellar. I can’t believe what <a href="https://twitter.com/LASDHQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LASDHQ</a> claims, especially after covering them while reporting on LEO’s in SoCal. And four deputies to arrest her ... ridiculous. <a href="https://t.co/NwSSzRfIqi">https://t.co/NwSSzRfIqi</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“Her arrest is the latest in a series of troubling interactions between our reporters and some local law enforcement officers. Journalists provide an essential service, providing fair, accurate and timely journalism and without them, our democracy is at risk.” </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Huang’s arrest was condemned by NPR and other media members in a series of tweets on the incident.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Karachi, Pakistan</b>: Bilal Farooqi, a senior journalist associated with English-language daily The Express Tribune, was allegedly taken into custody from his home in Karachi's DHA neighbourhood by Defence police on Friday evening, according to his family, friends and official sources.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Karachi police chief, Additional Inspector General Ghulam Nabi Memon, confirmed to Dawn that "Bilal Farooqui of Express Tribune" had been "arrested by the station investigation officer (SIO) of Defence police". </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Memon said Farooqi was "wanted in FIR. dated 9.9.2020”. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Earlier, a senior police officer, who requested anonymity, told Dawn that the FIR against Farooqi was under Sections 500 and 505 of the Pakistan Penal Code and Sections 11 and 20 of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca), 2016, on September 9 on the complaint of a private citizen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Farooqi works as a news editor at the newspaper, according to a report published in ET. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In a tweet, journalist Ebad Ahmed said Farooqi was taken into custody from his home by "two men in plainclothes accompanied by two policemen".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">He said police later visited his home again and officials informed Farooqi's wife that he had been detained at a police station in DHA. "Police have taken possession of Bilal’s phone," the journalist added.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">According to the contents of the FIR reviewed by Dawn, the complainant, Javed Khan, a resident of Majeed Colony in Landhi, said that he is a machine operator at a factory in the Landhi area. He said he visited a restaurant in DHA Phase-II Extension on Sept 9 where he checked his Facebook and Twitter accounts and found "highly objectionable material" shared by Farooqi on the two platforms.</span><br />
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The complainant in Express Tribune news editor Bilal Farooqi’s arrest is said to have told police that when he “opened his Facebook and Twitter accounts” he was outraged to see his posts - the complaint is a machine operator by profession and a resident of Landhi in Karachi <a href="https://t.co/1RszBW2xZR">pic.twitter.com/1RszBW2xZR</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The complainant claimed that "highly provocative posts" had been shared by Farooqi against the Pakistan Army and that the same also contained material pertaining to religious hatred.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Khan alleged that Farooqi had "defamed" the Pakistan Army and such social media posts may be used by hostile elements for their "nefarious designs". Therefore, legal action should be taken against him, he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The specific posts which led to the filing of the complaint could not be immediately ascertained. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Meanwhile, the Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ), in a statement released later in the evening, said "that the arrest of Bilal was part of the nefarious and concerted campaign to gag the free and independent voices".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The statement observed that "Bilal Farooqi, an active journalist who also remained executive committee of the KUJ, has been an educated and responsible youth, who never indulged in any kind of violation of Pakistani laws".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">"His only crime is that he dissents with ruling elites and raises his voice for the betterment and a progressive society," remarked Ashraf Khan, the KUJ president. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ahmed Khan Malik, the KUJ's secretary-general demanded his immediate release. He said "We demand withdrawal of false charges against Bilal and he must be released immediately".</span></div>
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Voice of Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640937315599396505noreply@blogger.com0Karachi, Karachi City, Sindh, Pakistan24.8607343 67.001136423.9411963 65.7102429 25.7802723 68.292029899999989tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051522271991865763.post-79346323309947731402020-09-11T10:58:00.001-07:002020-09-11T10:58:08.522-07:00Australia says security agencies acted on evidence in Chinese journalist raid<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Sydney, Australia</b>: Australia’s security agencies acted on evidence related to a foreign interference investigation when a raid was conducted on Chinese journalists in Australia in June, the country’s trade minister said on Friday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The incident, involving four Chinese state media journalists, was revealed by China’s foreign ministry this week, in the wake of two Australian journalists departing China after questioning by Chinese police. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Relations between Australia and top trading partner China are at a low ebb after Beijing was angered by Canberra’s call for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus, responding with trade reprisals, and Australia toughened national security tests for foreign investment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Trade Minister Simon Birmingham said the Australian security agencies had acted according to the law. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“We appropriately respond in relation to any foreign interference concerns that are raised in Australia,” he told the ABC News Breakfast television programme, when asked about the incident. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“We do it purely in relation to the evidence,” he added.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Birmingham denied suggestions the June raid had provoked a retaliation from Beijing which saw exit bans placed on journalists from the Australian Broadcasting Corp and the Australian Financial Review newspaper in China last week, and the pair seeking consular protection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">China has accused the Australian embassy of obstructing law enforcement when it sheltered the two journalists who were wanted for questioning in the country and returned to Australia this week. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Birmingham denied this and said Australian embassy officials had respected China’s processes to negotiate an outcome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“The embassy engaged diligently to ensure the safety of the two individuals concerned, but they also engaged cooperatively with Chinese officials to ensure the resolution of the matter, which included the opportunity for Chinese authorities to interview the individuals concerned,” he told ABC radio. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Another Australian citizen, Chinese television anchor Cheng Lei, was detained by Chinese authorities in August.</span></div>
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Voice of Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09640937315599396505noreply@blogger.com0Sydney NSW, Australia-33.8688197 151.2092955-34.712802200000006 149.918402 -33.0248372 152.500189tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3051522271991865763.post-39317969610270944932020-09-11T10:35:00.001-07:002020-09-11T10:37:25.672-07:00New York Times reporter Kathy Gray said Trump campaign removed her from Michigan rally<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Michigan, US</b>: A New York Times reporter claimed Thursday night that she was removed from President Donald Trump's rally in Michigan after she posted photos from the event on her Twitter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The photos that Gray had posted showed Trump supporters awaiting the president's arrival. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In the caption of one of the images, she wrote: 'Crammed in crowd in the rain for trump rally in michigan. Not many masks.' </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">'Trump rally in freeland attracts thousands. Maybe 10% have masks,' Gray wrote. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The president held the rally at the MBS International Airport where he was met by a cheering crowd of several thousand, packed shoulder-to-shoulder, mostly without masks. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">'This is not the crowd of a person who comes in second place,' Trump declared to cheers before criticizing Biden's performance during the Democratic debates. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">'The first lady actually came in... and she watched the debate and she watched Joe and she said, "Darling, it's so sad,"' Trump claimed, before taking aim at Biden's running mate, Kamala Harris, who he called the 'most liberal person in the USA'. The mention of Harris brought on boos and jeers from the crowd. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">'On November 3 Michigan you better vote for me! I got you so many damn car plants,' Trump said as the crowd cheered while waving 'Make America Great Again' signs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">'If Joe Biden is elected far-left lunatics won't just be running frail Democrat cities, they'll be running the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and the US Supreme Court, and we can't let that happen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">'No city, town or suburb will be safe. On November 3 your vote will save America. Remember it's the most important elect we've ever had,' Trump added. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Trump arrived in Michigan for the rally despite pushback from officials worried that his rallies are growing in size and flouting public health guidelines intended to halt the COVID-19 spread. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Michigan's Democratic Gov Gretchen Whitmer raised alarms earlier on Thursday about the rally. Whitmer did not try to scuttle the rally, but warned that such events 'threaten all that sacrifice that we've made'.</span></div>
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