After six days of the ban on publication in Manipur, newspapers will
resume from Thursday. Editors of newspapers and publications said though
they had not heard from the militant outfit that enforced the ban, they
would go ahead with publication.
However they declined to comment on the issue of the press release from
the outfit not being published which had sparked the threats and the
ban. They said the issue would be discussed later in an emergency
meeting of the Editors' Committee.
The newspapers had ceased publication following death threats to
journalists and hawkers by an underground organisation whose press
releases were ignored.
While representatives of women vigilantes, civil society organisations
on Wednesday staged a sit-in protest in Imphal demanding non-inference
to the newspapers, some activists said that distribution of newspapers
should not be banned and the people should not be denied their copies of
newspapers.They demanded that the newspapers should be allowed to
publish without threats.
Journalists took out a silent procession and staged a sit in protest
