SPWJG Condemns the attack on Journalists
Shopian: The Shopian/Pulwama journalists guild has strongly condemned the
assault and thrashing of two journalist by Police in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district.
Umer Rashid, a Senior journalist working with The Global News Service(GNS) and Junaid Gulzar Bureau chief south Kashmir Working with Kashmir Essence Monthly Magazine, said that they were assaulted by police at Newa ( Pulwama) while coming from Srinagar, on duty cops dragged the journalists and told them come we will teach you journalism, even the journalists showed valid passes issued by the admin and the passes not even returned back to these two journalists.
“We were having valid movement passes and humbly showed our I Cads also but the cops start abusing and thrashing both of us without letting us know the reason behind beating us”Umer said.
Spokesman SPWJG has strongly condemned the thrashing incident and said It is an assault on freedom of press.
Journalists report the truth but in conflict always truth is the first casualty”
The young journalists demanded a fair probe into the thrashing of their colleagues and action from the police against its men who Assaulted them.
Comments are closed.