The Editors Guild of India has said that it is “disturbed” by the FIR over its fact-finding report and shocked by Manipur Chief Minister Biren Singh’s “intimidatory” remarks.
Urging the Manipur government to close the FIRs, the guild said that the underlying idea of the report was to “enable introspection and reflection on the media’s conduct in such a sensitive situation”. It further said the CM’s “labelling” of the journalist body as “anti-state” and “anti-national” is deeply disturbing. “The guild is extremely disturbed that rather than respond to the concerns raised in the report in a meaningful way, the state government has registered FIRs invoking multiple provisions of the IPC.”
