Press Club of India strongly condemn the highhandedness against women journalists while sealing UNI premises
The Press Club of India (PCI) expresses deep shock at the manhandling of journalists while at work at the United News of India (UNI) premises on 9, Rafi Marg, New Delhi, by police last evening following a court order regarding a land dispute.
PCI condemned in the strongest possible terms such highhandedness unleashed on the journalists including women workers. Several journalists have stated that they were physically removed by Delhi Police and “CRPF personnel” from their workplace by use of force and not even allowed to pick up their personal belongings. The right to work is a
constitutional right.
PCI stands with the affected journalists and maintains that authorities should have shown restraint particularly when the journalists at work had informed them that the management was yet to convey to them to vacate the premises after the court order, which came just hours before the police action was launched on the working journalists.
PCI urges the authorities to take prompt action against whoever was responsible for such misconduct as it would help instill confidence within the journalist fraternity that right to work of the press is an important part of a democracy.
