Shillong: Journalists in Meghalaya on Saturday staged a rally against attack on a woman journalist in Arunachal Pradesh and demanded a speedy probe to nab the culprits.
Jointly organised by the Shillong Press Club and the Arunachal Students Union, the demonstration started from the ITBP headquarters at Rhino point and ended with a sit-in demonstration in front of Arunachal Bhavan. The members condemned the “repeated atrocities” being committed on the press fraternity even as they demand immediate arrest of those involved in the attack on Tonggam Rina, 34, associate editor of Arunachal Times, in Itanagar last Sunday. Three months ago, the office of Arunachal Times was also vandalised. “An attack against the press is an attack against the Constitution,” prominent journalist Prasad Gupta said. The South Asia Women in Media (SAWM) had expressed that it is “disturbed” by the increasingly dangerous climate in which media professionals function in South Asia and is especially concerned about the “poor security” given to women journalists. (PTI)