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Media in chains: The cost of speaking truth to power in South Asia - World

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MONTHS and months of unpaid salaries, unending unpaid leaves, unpaid termination benefits and penalised unions this is what the pandemic has left the news industry with. An introspection into the fourth estate reveals that those tasked with speaking up against violations have been the victims of gross labour rights violations themselves. When a legacy newspaper with ruling party alignment terminated 36 people on March 15, 2021, it led to a messy series of events. First, the ones terminated claimed that they were all members of a trade union inside the newspaper, and they had been penalised for unionising. “We formed a union because two years ago we wanted to pressurise the establishment to pay the arrears of the previous years. At the time of termination we were demanding that we receive increments there had been no increments in the newspaper for eight years,” claimed Bivash Barai, a terminated journalist who was the head of the union unit.

Killings, attacks and intimidation: Journalism under fire across borders

Killings, attacks and intimidation: Journalism under fire across borders Illustration: Noor Us Safa Anik For the first time, media organisations in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal are coming together to report about the killings, attacks, harassment, and intimidation of journalists in these South Asian countries. It is the first such collaboration by media outlets in the region.   By Nirmal Jovial On the evening of August 8, 2020, ten women from Subhash Mohalla in North East Delhi proceeded to the Bhajanpura police station to make the police register a first information report on a complaint they had made two days before. The complaint was that some men had tried to foment communal tension in their locality. The complainants said the men had abused Muslims, tied saffron flags near a mosque and burst crackers in celebration of a ceremony for the construction of a temple at faraway Ayodhya on August 5.

Attackers swoop on protesting journos in Dhaka, injuring 10

Attackers swoop on protesting journos in Dhaka, injuring 10 Star Digital Report Star Digital Report At least 10 journalists, who were sacked from the daily Janakantha recently, were injured in an attack during a protest in front of the newspaper office in Dhaka s Eskaton area this afternoon. Three of the injured were said to be in critical condition, and were taken to Dhaka Community Hospital in Moghbazar, one of the 26 sacked journalists Bivash Barai told this newspaper. The incident took place around 5:00pm when the journalists, along with some leaders of the journalist community, were protesting the wholesale termination from the Bangla daily, demanding to be reinstated.

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