प्रभात खबर अखबार के प्रधान संपादक को जेल से मिली धमकी

रांची से खबर है कि प्रभात खबर अखबार के एडिटर इन चीफ आशुतोष चतुर्वेदी को जेल से धमकी मिली है. इस बात की शिकायत खुद आशुतोष ने पुलिस में की है. पुलिस ने जांच के जरिए पता किया है कि धमकी देने वाला शख्स रांची के बिरसा मुंडा जेल के भीतर है.

इस मुद्दे पर पत्रकार संगठन डीयूजे (द देलही यूनियन आफ जर्नलिस्ट्स) ने प्रेस रिलीज जारी कर गहरी चिंता जताई है.

The Delhi Union of Journalists expresses its deep apprehensions regarding the threats to the Editor of the leading Hindi newspaper Prabhat Khabar. The Ranchi based Editor in Chief Ashutosh Chaturvedi has sent a formal complaint to the Jharkhand police and other authorities. Investigation suggests that the threats are being made from Ranchi’s Birsa Munda jail.

We call for an urgent inquiry into the matter, checking of the easy availability of mobile phones in the hands of mafia within the jail, as well as adequate protection for the Prabhat Khabar Editor and his staff. These threats come at the end of a year during which too many journalists have faced attacks from different quarters, be it physical attacks, open threats, vicious trolling or raids and cases.

We call for a law for the protection of journalists, given the sensitive nature of the work that many of us undertake in challenging circumstances.