{"id":8775,"date":"2020-04-04T11:33:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T06:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pakistanpressfoundation.org\/?p=98576"},"modified":"2020-04-04T11:33:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T06:33:48","slug":"media-workers-complain-of-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanfoemonitor.org\/media-workers-complain-of-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Media workers complain of restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"
LAHORE: Media workers have complained while returning home from their duties, they are denied access to their residential areas by police, who beefed up security measures on several roads.<\/p>\n
The journalists were said to have introduced themselves by displaying their press identity cards, but the armed police personnel refused to let them pass.<\/p>\n
A journalist said: \u201cPolice blatantly ignored the exemption granted to journalists from lockdown. While returning home from the office around 12:30am on Thursday, I was stopped at a picket at Mozang Adda, which was manned by a Mozang police senior official. He flatly refused to let me cross despite the fact that I showed him my press card. I had to take a long alternate route to reach home.\u201d<\/p>\n
Responding to the complaints, the capital city police officer claimed that instructions regarding media workers\u2019 movement had been issued to policemen at all pickets.<\/p>\n
Journalists would be able to move around the city during the lockdown after displaying their press identity cards, he added.<\/p>\n