‘release jailed scribes’: media rights groups to pm amid covid-19
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‘FREEDOM NOW MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH’ Quoting the World Health Organisation, the letter said that imprisoned journalists are more vulnerable to COVID-19 as they would be living in
enclosed environments. “For journalists jailed in countries affected by the virus, freedom is now a matter of life and death. Imprisoned journalists have no control over their surroundings,
cannot choose to isolate, and are often denied necessary medical care,” the media groups said in the letter. Prominent co-signatories of the letter from India include Indian Journalists
Union, Indian Federation of Working Journalists, Network of Women in Media India, Kashmir Working Journalists Association, PEN Delhi, Press Association and Mumbai Press Club, among others.
“Many of these journalists have been held in detention without trial for lengthy periods and are suffering from ill health exacerbated by underlying health conditions and overcrowded
prisons, where they have contracted malaria, tuberculosis, and other diseases,” the letter said, urging governments to release the imprisoned journalists. _You can read the full letter
__here__._