November 22, 2007	Thursday	Ziqa’ad 11, 1428

HYDERABAD, Nov 21: Journalists, under the banner of Hyderabad Union of Journalists and press club, staged a demonstration outside the press club on Wednesday, despite police highhandedness during their protest a day ago.

They were protesting against the imposition of emergency in the country, ban on ARY and GEO TV channels, Pemra Ordinance and violence against journalists.

They staged a vociferous demonstration carrying placards and banners and raising slogans against curbs on media but no personnel of police and paramilitary rangers deployed outside the club tried to stop the protesters this day as they did on Tuesday.

Reports from Tando Muhammad Khan said that media persons led by senior journalist Ghulam Nabi Keerio and president of Tando Muhammad Khan chapter of Pakistan people’s Party Haji Mohammad Amin Lakho observed a token hunger strike against the arrest of journalists in Hyderabad and Karachi and police violence against journalists in Karachi.

Our Naushahro Feroze correspondent adds: Journalists led by Younus Rajpar and Zahid Rajpar observed a token hunger strike in the courtyard of local press club on Wednesday.

They condemned police assault on their colleagues in different parts of the country and demanded release of all the arrested journalists, lawyers, judges and political activists and leaders and removal of curbs on media.