Kohima, March 21 (MExN): A journalist was allegedly assaulted by miscreants at New Market area in Kohima while returning home from work on the night of March 5 last. Following the incident, the journalist has been identified as Menuseo Khieya, a correspondent of Eastern Mirror.
The Kohima Press Club (KPC), President, Alice Yhoshü and General Secretary, Atono Tsükrü Kense condemning the incident stated that Khieya was attacked by unidentified person(s) from behind and rendered in a state of unconsciousness. Besides sustaining multiple injuries on the head and face and losing a substantial amount of blood, several personal belongings including his cell phone, a copy of his Aadhaar Card and two ATM cards were also lost during the incident, the club stated.
Taking serious note of the assault, KPC vehemently condemned the incident and said, “Journalists have no fixed timing of work as we are required to work anytime of the day or night, whenever and wherever news can be gathered, so that we can present the correct picture of the happenings around us to the public. But it is such unruly actions as the one meted out on our member on March 5 that brings the safety and security of journalists to question.”
The KPC said that such inhuman act perpetrated without any reason or provocation cannot simply be brushed aside. “We firmly believe that there is law that will take its own course of time to expose the assailant(s) sooner or later,” it stated and also appealed to all responsible persons to uphold and encourage the functioning, and the growth of the Fourth Estate.
