7.2. 1. Securing Journalistic Career and Their Safety The safety and security of journalists need fully protected as rights and provisions in chapter 2 and 3 of the Media Law designates. The safety and security of journalists must prevail. 2. Every journalist and news media must be protected from surveillance, investigations, intimidation, threatening, and prosecutions. 3. All the rights and legal entitlements need to be fully realized. 4. All the prosecutions on journalists and news media implying criminal laws instead of the existing news media law need to be dropped. 5. Every journalist deserves to be free from targeted surveillance, arrest, and investigations by the SAC. 6. Local and international organizations should prioritize the safety and security of journalists, implementing a mechanism accessible to every journalist. 7. Short-term and long-term plans need to be put in place, ensuring journalists’ safety and livelihood and news media’s sustainability while in displacements domestically into safe zones or abroad. Those plans should consider accessibility and inclusiveness for every journalist. 8. International governments, armed organizations, and non-governmental organizations need to provide access to protection and opportunities to assist the safety and well-being of migrants with internally and cross-border displacements. 7.3. 1. Enabling environment for Journalistic Professionals and Industry Sustaining news media decently and exercising the Chapter (2) provisions of News Media Law require democratic governance. 2. An enabling environment for journalists and news media to continue decently their professionals needs to discontinue revoking media licenses and end surveillance, intimidation, arrests, prosecuting and criminalizing journalists. 3. Prosecuting news media and journalists need to be dropped, and arrested journalists released immediately and unconditionally. 4. Short-term and long-term support from local and international organizations need to be put in place and implemented immediately and effectively for the sustainability of the news media. Repeated Dark Age of News Media 32

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