
The conference hall of the Press Club of India was packed on Monday afternoon. It contained more than 70 journalists who had gathered to discuss, as PCI put it, the “creeping infringement of media freedom and assault on personal liberty of journalists”.
The event was organised by six media bodies: the Indian Women’s Press Corps, Editors Guild of India, Press Association, Digipub News India Foundation, Delhi Union of Journalists, and the Working News Cameramen’s Association.