Journos at Press Club of India protest attacks 

 
NEW DELHI, OCT 13: Journalists turned up in good numbers to join a march called by the Press Club of India on Tuesday afternoon, to express solidarity with members of their fraternity who have been detained, harassed and intimidated during opposition protests, demanding resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner and a halt to the controversial Special Intensive Revision. 

The march took place amid multi layered security and yellow metal barricades.

At least 45 journalists including women journalists have been detained in the course of their work, in recent days. 

Several journalists including 71-year old independent journalist ParanjoyGuhaThakurta who was detained, said that he has never seen journalists being targeted on such a huge scale. He said that the youth of the country will continue to be fearless.

Several young journalists including includingEshwarGole and SaarthakJaiswal from The Quint and Dilnawaz Pasha, from the BBC shared accounts of the hurdles they faced while covering the protests in the national Capital.