(ANSA) - NEW DELHI, MARCH 7 - The Indian Ministry of Information and Telecommunications suspended for 48 hours the broadcasting of two news broadcasters Media One TV and AsianetNews accusing them of having had a partial attitude in reporting the violence of two weeks ago in Delhi east due to the controversial citizenship law.
According to the government, the two channels "recounted the attack on a mosque with excessive emphasis and proved to be partial towards a particular religious community", that is to say the Muslim one. "The services of the television network appear to be the result of a prejudice and deliberately focused on vandalism by supporters of the citizenship law" and "relieved of doubt" on the work of the police, accused in the services of having remained "passive".
In response, the director of Media One, CL Thomas, finalized the decision as "the heaviest intrusion of a government on media freedom in the history of India.
Something similar happened only during the Emergency (1975-77), but today there is no declared Emergency ".
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The Indian Ministry of Information and Telecommunications suspended the broadcasts of two news broadcasters Media One TV and Asianet News for 48 hours, accusing them of having had a partial attitude in reporting the violence of two weeks ago ... (ANSA)
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