Journalists’ fraternity in Manipur faces militant threat, goes on pen down strike

IMPHAL, Dec 15, 2015: Strongly denouncing the placing of a Chinese
grenade at the residence of Chief Editor of a local TV channel “Impact
TV”, journalists’ fraternity in the state on Tuesday resolved to go on
pen down strike on December 16. The decision to go on pen down strike
was resolved in a joint meeting of the Editors’ Guild Manipur and All
Manipur Working Journalists’ Union, an apex scribes’ body in Manipur
held at Manipur Press Club with Editors’Guild Manipur President
Ahongsangbam Mobi and AMWJU President Wangkhemcha Shyamjai presiding the
meeting. The meeting while taking serious note of bomb threat to the
IMPACT TV Editor Yumnam Rupachandra by unknown miscreants claiming to be
a members of an armed group regarding not publication of a Press
Release of the outfit unanimously resolved to stage pen down strike
tomorrow as the state government machineries too cannot assures the life
of the journalists. The journalists’ fraternity of the state will also
stage a sit in protest at Keishampat tomorrow.

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