The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) participate in an International Conference on "Freedom of Expression: Facing Up to the Threat", took place on July 24-25, 2017 in Doha, Qatar. The four member IJU team of President S N Sinha vice President Sabina Indirjit, Secretary B S Jammu and NC member M A Majid represented the IJU as part of 200 participants from around the world. The participants then converged on Al Jazeera where a solidarity rally was held in the newsroom. Al Jazeera Arabic interrupted its programme to report on the rally which included messages by leaders, holding placards confirming that journalists are not criminals and reaffirming their support for Al Jazeera journalists.
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About Us Until Independence in 1947, an overwhelming majority of the country's journalist community was an active participant in the freedom struggle and suffered the same fate as the other freedom-fighters. After Independence, however, the anti-Establishment traditions of the community compelled it to tread a path different from that of the ruling politicians. The contradictions that had developed between the two since the formation of elected provincial governments in 1937 began to sharpen further and journalists found that the time had come to form a trade union organisation of their own.
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