Summary:
The Mumbai Press Club condemns the filing of multiple FIRs against journalists and publishers that include Rajdeep Sardesai Mrinal Pande Vinod Jose Zafar Agha Paresh Nath and Anant Nath. The Mumbai Press Club demands the immediate withdrawal of these FIRs against the 6 journalists and calls upon the Union government to stop using coercive and threatening practices like filing of cases under the UAPA Act pressing charges of sedition etc against newspapers and journalists. In these circumstances to pin blame on the journalists for being responsible for the violence and disruption is reprehensible. Worse still is the attempt of the Police to stick sedition charges on the journalists using archaic laws? Besides the harassment and attacks these journalists face they are further demonized by being portrayed as 'anti-nationals' 'terrorists' etc..