Newspapers in Manipur failed to hit the stands on Friday as publishing houses and journalists decided against bringing out the issues in protest against threat to a scribe by hill-based militants.
The All Manipur Working Journalists’ Union (AMWJU) had launched a sit-in protest against the threat and decided to cease work on Thursday.
Threats to media persons and media houses by militants has resulted in frequent non-publication of newspapers in the recent past, a spokesperson of the journalists’ body said while appealing to the militants not to disturb freedom of the press in the State.
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Militants of Hmar People’s Convention-Democratic (HPC—D) had threatened a senior correspondent of popular ’Sangai Express’ on Wednesday for publishing a news item related to the outfit.
Publication of dailies would resume on Friday.