IWPC: internal dissent

IN Media Watch Briefs | 23/01/2017

One hundred and thirty four members of the Indian Womens Press Corps, housed in a government bungalow in Delhi, have written to its management committee recording their "strong objection" to a clause which was recently added to the IWPC form for booking space for meetings/conferences, and demanding its removal. The clause says "Nothing will be said which will be anti-national, question the integrity of the country, amount to sedition or cause harm to the reputation of the club”. The letter adds, "It is a journalists’ club where freedom of speech and expression have been and must continue to be encouraged and protected."

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