Various journalist organisations have rejected as an attack on the press freedom the recently passed law by the Punjab Assembly. — AFP/File
LAHORE: Various journalist organisations have rejected as an attack on the press freedom the recently passed law by the Punjab Assembly wherein the so-called judicial committee of the house may penalise in a summary trial any journalist or bureaucrat for breach of a privilege of the house, any of its committee or a member.
The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (Rana Azeem), Punjab Union of Journalists, Lahore Press Club and Punjab Assembly Press Gallery Committee, Electronic Media Reporters Association and South Punjab Journalists Association have condemned the ‘clandestine’ passage of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab Privileges (Amendment) Bill, 2021.