Journalists are also citizens. If they are arrested for crimes unrelated to their journalism, then it is difficult to assert that it is linked to freedom of the press. Do we support journalists charged with sexual harassment, or sexual assault, or murder?.. At the same time, journalists who become a thorn in the side of the establishment, irrespective of its political colour, can be harassed by way of cooked-up cases that are not linked to their journalism. Such actions are not unknown. - Arnab Goswami’s arrest isn’t about freedom of press, it’s about the state’s misuse of power: Kalpana Sharma ..What is common ... is the way the police, and some provisions of the law, are being routinely misused against citizens — activists, academics, students, journalists and many others.
Perhaps people do not read the fine print in newspaper reports. But it is worth doing it for the record rather than leaving it to specialised fact-check sites like AltNews to point them out. If those in power go unchallenged when they publicly state half-truths, or untruths, they will continue to do so with impunity. And the result will be the acceptance by many millions of people that these untruths are indeed proven facts, as we are currently witnessing in the US. https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/11/19/why-the-media-has-a-duty-to-separate-truth-from-untruth
Finance Minister Sitharaman compared the arrest of the news anchor with the Emergency. ..If the arrest of one TV anchor has anguished the minister enough to draw comparisons with the Emergency, I can’t wait till she finds out what has been happening in Jammu & Kashmir since August 5, last year. ..One among them I suspect must be a journalist, Auqib Javeed, who was reportedly slapped around by the J&K Police for a story that exposed the police bullying people for using social media.
In Uttar Pradesh, the officer responsible for arresting another journalist, Siddique Kappan, must be shaking in his boots after reading Chief Minister Adityanath’s tweets supporting freedom of expression. The journalist was arrested under the draconian UAPA when he was reportedly on his way to Hathras to report on a story. A news report says that “objectionable literature” such as that asking for justice for the Hathras gang rape victim was found in his possession.
Yet another journalist, Prashant Kanojia was arrested in 2019 for tweets, some of which were posted in 2016. In 2019, he got bail from the Supreme Court but was rearrested this year for some other tweets. He was finally released on bail after spending over a month in prison.
According to a report by the ‘Rights & Risks Analysis Group’: Fifty-five journalists faced arrest, registration of FIRs, summons or show causes notices, physical assaults, alleged destruction of properties, and threats for reportage on Covid-19 or exercising freedom of opinion and expression during the national lockdown from March 25 to May 31, 2020. The highest number of attacks on the media persons was reported from Uttar Pradesh http://www.rightsrisks.org/in-media/55-journalists-targeted-during-lockdown-in-india-the-news-mill/…
If the arrest of one TV anchor has anguished the minister en
https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/opinion/columnists/dushyant/freedom-of-speech-here-comes-hope/articleshow/79072301.cms
https://thewire.in/media/covid-19-journalists-arrested-booked-report
taken from Ranjona Banerji: What about journalists punished for doing their job?
https://m.thewire.in/article/media/arnab-goswami-arrest-defence-television-journalism
https://m.thewire.in/article/media/journalist-arrest-arnab-goswami-bjp-defence
https://m.thewire.in/article/media/journalist-arrest-arnab-goswami-bjp-defence
Kumar Ketkar Interview: अर्णब गोस्वामीला झालेल्या अटकेनंतर भाजपच्या केंद्रीय नेत्यांपासून राज्यातील नेत्यांनी या अटकेचा निषेध करत माध्यम स्वातंत्र्याशी त्याचा संबंध जोडला, पण ते चुकीचे असल्याची टीका काँग्रेसचे राज्यसभेतील खासदार कुमार केतकर यांनी केली आहे. अर्णब गोस्वामीला अन्वय नाईक यांची आर्थिक फसवणूक केल्याच्या आरोपाखाली अटक करण्यात आली आहे, याचा संबंध माध्यम स्वातंत्र्याशी नाही, पण अर्णब हा भाजपचा मीडियामधील सेनापती असल्याने भाजपने त्याला वाचवण्यासाठी आंदोलन केल्याचा आरोपही केतकर यांनी केला आहे. सुशांत सिंहने कोणतीही चिठ्ठी न लिहिती आत्महत्या केली तरी तो खून असल्याचा दावा करत अर्णबने रियाला अटक करण्याची मागणी केली होती. पण अन्वय नाईक यांनी तर आत्महत्येपूर्वी लिहिलेल्या चिठ्ठीमध्ये अर्णबचे नाव घेतले आहे. त्यामुळे अर्णब झालेली कारवाई ही कायदेशीर कारवाई आहे, असेही त्यांनी म्हटले आहे. (googletranslate After the arrest of Arnab Goswami, state leaders from BJP central leaders protested against the arrest and linked it to media freedom, but Congress Rajya Sabha MP Kumar Ketkar criticized it as wrong. Arnab Goswami has been arrested on charges of financial fraud against Anvay Naik. Although Sushant Singh committed suicide without writing any letter, Arnab had demanded Riya's arrest, claiming it was a murder. But Anvay Naik has mentioned Arnab's name in the letter he wrote before committing suicide. Therefore, the action taken is a legal action, he added.)