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Drop NSA charges against Manipur scribe: National journalists’ bodies

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NEW DELHI , December 21, 2018 10:22 am
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Jailed Manipur journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem. Image Credit - News18

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Members of the media fraternity across the country have rallied their support behind jailed Manipur scribe Kishorechand Wangkhem condemning his arrest and 12 months detention.

Also read: Manipur journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem jailed under NSA for criticising BJP govt

Several journalists’ bodies on Thursday demanded that the charges levelled against him under the National Security Act (NSA) be dropped.

Notably, he was booked for allegedly criticizing Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media.

In a statement jointly issued by Indian Women’s Press Corps, Press Club of India, Press Association and Federation of Press Clubs in India stated that We, the undersigned journalist organisations express deep concern at the twelve month detention of Kishorechand Wangkhem, under the National Security Act’.

“We demand that the harsh provisions under which Wangkhem has been booked be dropped in the interests of justice and the right to freedom of speech and expression,” the statement added.

Wangkhem, 39, who is employed as an anchor-reporter with a news channel ISTV, was arrested on November 21 by Manipur Police for uploading a video where he reportedly criticized the Prime Minister and called N Biren Singh as a ‘puppet of the Centre’.

He was booked for sedition and later released following a magisterial order that did not find anything seditious in his remarks, only to be booked again under the NSA, alleged the journalist body statement.

The magistrate in his release order had said, ‘his statements do not seem as an attempt to disturb peace… it was a mere expression of opinion against the Prime Minister and the Chief Minister of Manipur which cannot be equated with an attack to invite people to violence against the Government of India or Manipur to topple it…’, the statement read.

The statement added that the preventive detention under the NSA for twelve months even after the court did not find anything seditious in Wangkhem’s remarks is totally uncalled for and deserves condemnation.

“There are judicial pronouncements on what may constitute seditious language and action. To book individuals under non-bailable and harsh laws for using allegedly intemperate language to criticize government’s decisions or individuals in government, is a measure of governmental overreach apart from being a violation of the fundamental right to free speech,” added the statement.

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