, spoke to Jajo about the events of 22 February and press freedom in Manipur.
Kimi Colney: Can you describe the events of 22 February?
Grace Jajo: I had been covering the budget assembly session every day and I went to cover it on the last day, 22 February. After coming inside the gate, at the frisking point, I was asked if I had brought my ID cards. I thought it was only for verification so I showed them my ID cards and my assembly entry pass. Then suddenly, the head of the security, E Thomba, came and took my entry pass away and kept it inside his pocket. I was stunned for a moment but I managed to dig it out from his pocket and asked him how dare he do that. He told me that he has an order to bar me from entering the assembly, and asked me to leave the premises.
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BJP President JP Nadda (c) greets former Congress MLAs from Manipur after they join the BJP, in New Delhi, India, 19 August 2020, Mohd Zakir/Hindustan Times via Getty Images Reporters Without Borders (RSF) looks closer into the rising cases of press freedom violations in Manipur state, located in northeast India.
This statement was originally published on rsf.org on 3 March 2021.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is zooming in today on Manipur, a small state in northeastern India where press freedom violations are on the rise and where journalists are increasingly being persecuted by the local government, parliament and judiciary. RSF calls on the local authorities to stop trying to intimidate reporters.
2 Manipur scribes get notices under new digital media rules
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Served over a discussion on “Media Under Siege”, they were withdrawn hours later
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Representative Image: For digital publishers of news and current affairs as well as video streaming services, an identical three-tier structure for grievance redressal has been mandated. File Photo.
Served over a discussion on “Media Under Siege”, they were withdrawn hours later
Two Manipur-based journalists have arguably become the first ones to be slapped with notices under the newly notified Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 over an online discussion titled “Media Under Siege: Are Journalists Walking A Tight Rope”.
Manipur Police Withdraws Notice â Issued Under New Digital Media Rules â to News Show
Barely a week after the Modi government brought in a set of draconian rules to restrict the freedom of digital news outlets, the northeastern state had become the first to use it to threaten the media.
I&B minister Prakash Javadekar, the notice issued by the Manipur government and Kishorechandra Wangkhem. Illustration: The Wire
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New Delhi: Hours after a legal notice â issued to a news and current affairs platform in Imphal by making use of the Narendra Modi government’s new rules to ‘regulate’ digital media â resulted in nationwide outrage, the Manipur government decided to withdraw it.
Citing the code of ethics, the district magistrate of Imphal West, Naorem Praveen Singh, issued a notice on March 1 to the “publisher/intermediary” of ‘Khanasi Neinasi’