Manipur

Reporting conflict has become the greatest challenge for journalists in the northeastern part of India which has been reeling under the impact of insurgency for almost half a century. They are performing their duty in a condition of great stress and strain. There have been glaring instances of journalists being targeted by separatist outfits, and threatened, assaulted and harassed by security...

Global pree freedom advocates have expressed alarm at the deteriorating conditions for journalists in Manipur. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed alarm over the fact that an adverse situation for media workers in Manipur has turned markedly worse in the space of a mere week. By all credible accounts, this has happened on account both of militant groups operating in...

The Manipur government has banned publication of any propaganda of unlawful organisations or terrorist groups. Newspapers, books or printed documents would be forfeited if they contain news items which were considered to be subversive and a threat to the integrity of the country, the government decreed in an official order issued by Principal Secretary (Home) PBO Warjri. The state home department...

Newspapers in Manipur went off the press Wednesday after a gift-wrapped rocket-propelled grenade was delivered to a newspaper office in Imphal Tuesday night. Journalists and editors decided overnight to suspend publication of all dailies indefinitely and pull news bulletins off local cable channels. The grenade received by the Sangai Express came from a faction of the underground People’s...

Assam Rifles jawans assaulted journalists and detained them at a security post for two hours on Wednesday for covering protest rallies over the alleged rape of an 18-year-old girl by a personnel of the post. The journalists were asked to erase all the photographs which captured the “excesses” of the AR personnel, the Imphal Free Press reported. Representatives of the All-Manipur Working...

Imphal, jan 13: Nameirakpam Biswajit, reporter of the Imphal Free Press, was severely beaten up by police commandos of the Imphal West district police while covering the chaos in front of Congress Bhavan today. Our reporter was kicked and beaten with lathis despite identifying himself as a journalist. The incident took place at around 2 pm in front of the Congress Bhavan at BT Road amidst police...

Imphal, dec 22: In protest against the attempt on the life of the editor and publisher of the Kangla Pao, Paonam Labango on Wednesday night, Imphal-based newspapers suspended publication for a day and state journalists staged a day-long sit-in protest at Keisampat yesterday. The dharna commenced from around 10 am and went on till 4 pm. Over a hundred working journalists participated in the dharna...

Imphal, December 22: Media fraternity of Manipur demonstrated at the State capital here yesterday in protest against the life attempt on the editor of Kangla Pao. Editor of local vernacular eveninger Kangla Pao Paonam Labango (47) was fired upon by three unknown youths while the former was moving out from his Sega Road office along Tiddim Road after completing the day's work at 9.10 pm on December...

Unidentified gunmen made an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the editor and publisher of the Kangla Pao evening newspaper, Paonam Labango at around 9:10 pm tonight in front of the Kangla Pao office at Keisampat. The gunmen, who were waiting for the editor to come out from his office fired a shot but fortunately the bullet missed him After opening fire, the unidentified gunmen escaped under...

Reporting on incidents relating to militants and militancy in Manipur is increasingly making life difficult for journalists here. The latest episode has been the death threat against the Imphal Free Press over a report about the killing of two suspected militants in an encounter that the newspaper carried last week. The threat has since been withdrawn but working conditions for journalists remain...