Date:24/12/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/12/24/stories/2008122460330300.htm

Tamil Nadu - Coimbatore

Journalists stage demonstration

Staff Reporter

Coimbatore: Nearly hundred journalists from various media organisations representing both print and electronic media staged a demonstration in front of Red Cross Society Buildings on Huzur Road in the city in protest against the recent assault on media persons at Vettaikaranpudur, near Pollachi, during a clash between two groups.

Journalists had already preferred a complaint and the journalists in Pollachi staged a demonstration on Monday.

In Coimbatore, members of Coimbatore Press Club, Coimbatore Journalists Association and Tamil Nadu Press Club staged a demonstration and raised slogans demanding the arrest of the accused, protection for journalists while on duty.