Hyderabad: The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) and Working News Cameramen’s Association (WNCA) today condemned attacks on journalists in the last two days in the national capital while they were covering the riots and violence between the pro and anti-Citizenship Amendments Act (CAA) groups.
In a press note here, IJU secretary Y Narender Reddy said the IJU and WNCA leaders called on the Union government under whose jurisdiction the Delhi police work, to take steps to provide protection to journalists and facilitate their work unhindered. Three journalists, including a JK 24×7 journalist, were shot at, others were seriously injured in the mob violence. Several journalists, including some women journalists and photographers from NDTV, Hindustan Times and several other publications and TV organizations were threatened and chased away from the scene of violence. It was reported that several journalists were asked to prove their religious identity by the miscreants and let go only after they were satisfied with their identity.
