{"id":120921,"date":"2021-12-05T18:42:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T01:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120921"},"modified":"2021-12-05T18:42:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T01:42:02","slug":"iju-expresses-concern-over-sedition-charge-against-silchar-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/05\/iju-expresses-concern-over-sedition-charge-against-silchar-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"IJU expresses concern over sedition charge against Silchar journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Nava Thakuria<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Hyderabad, 5 December 2021: Indian Journalists Union\n(IJU) expresses concern over the slapping of sedition charges against a\njournalist from Assam\u2019s Barak valley and urges the authority to withdraw the\ncase against Anirban Roy Choudhury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Silchar-based editor of digital outlet BarakBulletin\nfaces sedition charges over an editorial and the young scribe has been summoned\nby the police to be present at Silchar Sadar police station on Monday morning,\nfollowing an FIR,&nbsp; lodged by Santanu\nSutradhar of All Assam Bengali Hindu Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is shocking that the news portal editor has been\nbooked under sedition charges targeting his freedom of expression guaranteed by\nour Constitution. There are other laws to deal with such issues, but no way it\nshould go with sedition,\u201d said IJU president K. Sreenivas Reddy and secretary\ngeneral Balwinder Singh Jammu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The complaint was filed on 1 December claiming that the\neditorial comprised elements to hamper the cordial relationship between the\nBengali speaking residents of Barak valley and the Assamese community in\nBrahmaputra valley of Assam. Considering the sensitivity of it, he protested\nagainst the scribe\u2019s public support to Pradip Dutta Roy, who is presently under\njudicial custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dutta Roy, the convenor of Barak Democratic Front, was\narrested on&nbsp; 27 November last following\nhis ultimatum to erase Assamese language from the hoardings put in Barak\nvalley. Mentionable is that even though Assamese is recognised as the official\nlanguage of Assam, there are provisions for using Bengali in Barak valley that\ncomprises three districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nava Thakuria Hyderabad, 5 December 2021: Indian Journalists Union (IJU) expresses concern over the slapping of sedition charges against a journalist from Assam\u2019s Barak valley and urges the authority to withdraw the case against Anirban Roy Choudhury. The Silchar-based editor of digital outlet BarakBulletin faces sedition charges over an editorial and the young scribe has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nava-thakuria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}