I was doing my job as a journalist in India. Modi's government didn’t like it
6 months, 1 week ago

I was doing my job as a journalist in India. Modi's government didn’t like it

ABC  

It was supposed to be an innocuous catch-up with representatives from Narendra Modi's party, the BJP, to touch base about the ABC's coverage plans for the Indian election. French journalist Vanessa Dougnac — believed to be India's longest-serving foreign correspondent — had to leave this year because her permanent residency was revoked Al Jazeera said its correspondent was not given a pass to cover the election The BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai were raided by Indian authorities last year after it aired a documentary critical of Modi's treatment of the country's Muslim minority If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that Modi – and his government – can be openly resistant to accountability. I'd just put out a story for the ABC's Foreign Correspondent program investigating accusations that Modi's Hindu nationalist government had killed a Canadian Sikh separatist in Vancouver — allegations the government continues to deny. Perhaps my favourite of the headlines read that a "marriage lured Avani Dias back to Australia, not intimidation by Indian government". Read Avani Dias's Four Corners report on Monday, June 17, on ABC News and watch the documentary "Infiltrating Australia – India's secret war" from 8:30pm Monday on ABC TV and ABC iview.

India Media Delhi Australia Indian Visa Punjab Youtube Foreign Modi Sydney Narendra Modi Abc Journalist Four Corners Nijjar Dias Indian Authorities My Story My Visa  abc  media  foreign  id  visa  india  journalist  doing  job  australia  indian  modis  didnt  dias  modi

History of this topic

US Denies BJP’s ‘Deep State’ Accusation Of Creating Narratives To Destabilise India, Calls It ‘Disappointing’
Trending News
2 weeks, 2 days ago

US Denies BJP’s ‘Deep State’ Accusation Of Creating Narratives To Destabilise India, Calls It ‘Disappointing’

ABP News  

The United States on Saturday dismissed allegations by the Bharatiya Janata Party suggesting that organisations funded by the US State Department and elements of the American deep state were involved in destabilising India through targeted attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and business tycoon Gautam Adani. According to news agency PTI, a spokesperson from the US embassy in India described …

The Atlantic publishes hit job against PM Modi: Here’s how the propaganda piece cherry-picks facts to attack the Indian leader
2 weeks, 6 days ago

The Atlantic publishes hit job against PM Modi: Here’s how the propaganda piece cherry-picks facts to attack the Indian leader

Op India  

“For India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, strength is everything.” A hit job on Indian PM Modi was published by American magazine The Atlantic on the 29th of November. The hit job titled “How a Strongman Made Himself Look Weak” claims that PM Modi responds to criticism within India by ‘co-opting’ the media and ‘repressing’ the religious minorities. Daniel Block, who …

Journalist bodies terms clause 7(2) of U.P. government’s Digital Media Policy draconian, seek its withdrawal
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Journalist bodies terms clause 7(2) of U.P. government’s Digital Media Policy draconian, seek its withdrawal

The Hindu  

Journalist bodies on Friday sought from the Uttar Pradesh government an immediate withdrawal of clause 7 from its Digital Media Policy-2024, stating that the provision gave sweeping powers to the State government to declare any content, including legitimate journalistic works posted on social media, as “anti-social” or “anti-national”. However, Section 7 of the said policy states that legal action by …

Modi’s media marathon
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Modi’s media marathon

Al Jazeera  

As Narendra Modi fights for a third term in office, his media blitz is like nothing he has done before. With voter turnout in India’s elections unexpectedly low, traditionally interview-shy Prime Minister Narendra Modi is spending more time with journalists than ever before. Contributors: Abhik Deb – Reporter, Scroll.in Maya Mirchandani – Associate Professor, Ashoka University Pragya Tiwari – Writer …

What’s Ailing Foreign Media in India?
7 months, 3 weeks ago

What’s Ailing Foreign Media in India?

News 18  

Why is it that global media operating in Bharat is acerbic? Most foreign media companies’ editorial policies may have been driven or influenced by their Indian partners. In this backdrop, a couple of foreign media professionals leaving Bharat due to circumstances ‘beyond normal’ have kicked up a debate in the community. Beginning with the BBC tax surveys, foreign journalists’ exit …

ABC journalist Avani Dias told routine visa extension would be denied, days after India targeted her work on YouTube
8 months ago

ABC journalist Avani Dias told routine visa extension would be denied, days after India targeted her work on YouTube

ABC  

In short: An ABC journalist has been told a routine visa extension will be denied due to her reports on Sikh separatists. ABC News South Asia bureau chief Avani Dias was told a routine visa extension would be denied by the Indian government, days after it blocked her reporting on YouTube in the country. The episode covered the killing of …

In Modi’s India, opponents and journalists feel the squeeze ahead of election
8 months ago

In Modi’s India, opponents and journalists feel the squeeze ahead of election

LA Times  

Mihir Desai, a lawyer at his office in Mumbai, India, is defending a dozen political activists, journalists and lawyers jailed in 2018 on accusations of plotting to overthrow the Modi government. The 65-year-old lawyer from India’s financial capital Mumbai is now working on one of his — and the country’s — most high-profile cases: defending a dozen political activists, journalists …

Western media – colonial mindset of thwarting India’s rise
9 months ago

Western media – colonial mindset of thwarting India’s rise

Deccan Chronicle  

The Western media’s approach towards India shows how the English press continues to disseminate the West’s long-held prejudices against India. Drawing heavily from history, the book ‘Western media narratives on India: From Gandhi to Modi’ authored by Umesh Upadhyay critically unravels the origins and causes of this bias. The Western media crafted a narrative, projecting India’s response to the disaster …

'Modi Govt Most Vilified': Top Minister On 'Freedom To Abuse' | Hardeep Puri Interview
1 year ago

'Modi Govt Most Vilified': Top Minister On 'Freedom To Abuse' | Hardeep Puri Interview

Hindustan Times  

'Modi Govt Most Vilified': Top Minister On 'Freedom To Abuse' | Hardeep Puri Interview Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has trashed the charge that Narendra Modi's Government at centre is intolerant towards criticism and dissent and that it is cracking down on opposition, journalists and activists for taking on the government. He spoke to Hindustan Times' Kumkum Chadha and said …

Undeclared Emergency: The Hindu Editorial on the arrests in the Newsclick case
1 year, 2 months ago

Undeclared Emergency: The Hindu Editorial on the arrests in the Newsclick case

The Hindu  

Even for a government that has shown itself to be intolerant of critical journalism, the actions by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led regime on the news website NewsClick smack of extreme vendetta and brazen harassment. The government has, thus far, disclosed no specific allegation on what exactly merited the arrest of the site’s Editor-in-Chief Prabir Purkayastha and another person under the …

India police search journalists’ homes and offices in the country’s latest raids on media
1 year, 2 months ago

India police search journalists’ homes and offices in the country’s latest raids on media

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Indian police raided the offices of a news website that’s under investigation for allegedly receiving funds from China, as well as the homes of several of its journalists, in what critics described as an attack on one of India’s few remaining independent news outlets. Indian authorities registered a case against the site and its journalists on Aug. …

Media Boycott by INDIA Bloc Exposes Unsettled Priorities and Insecurity - News18
1 year, 3 months ago

Media Boycott by INDIA Bloc Exposes Unsettled Priorities and Insecurity - News18

News 18  

In a surprising move, the Opposition alliance, aptly named INDIA, has declared one of its initial decisions: a boycott of approximately 14 prominent TV anchors. There are tactful ways to address concerns, and it’s essential to acknowledge that various political parties, both past and present, have, at times, chosen to boycott media organisations, anchors, or newspapers. The Opposition alliance’s unequivocal …

Press freedom concerns as India editors’ body charged over Manipur report
1 year, 3 months ago

Press freedom concerns as India editors’ body charged over Manipur report

Al Jazeera  

Manipur police file cases against members of the Editors Guild of India, accusing them of promoting enmity between different groups. The cases, also known as first information reports, filed in two separate police stations on Sunday came a day after the country’s top editors body issued a report condemning the local media’s “one-sided” reporting of the months-long violence in the …

Indian police condemn BBC for article on press freedom in Kashmir
1 year, 3 months ago

Indian police condemn BBC for article on press freedom in Kashmir

Al Jazeera  

Police in Indian-administered Kashmir threaten to initiate legal action against the British broadcaster for reporting on media crackdown in disputed region. Police in Indian-administered Kashmir have “strongly objected” to an article published by the BBC on press freedom in the Muslim-majority region and threatened to take legal action for “unfairly castigating” its work. “The article unfairly castigates efforts of J&K …

News Analysis: The inconvenient truth that haunted Indian Prime Minister Modi’s White House visit
1 year, 5 months ago

News Analysis: The inconvenient truth that haunted Indian Prime Minister Modi’s White House visit

LA Times  

President Biden welcomed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the White House on Thursday despite the Hindu nationalist’s troubling record on religious and free speech rights. Last year, 10 human rights and democracy organizations called out Modi’s government for targeting journalists, saying it had “emboldened Hindu nationalists to threaten, harass, and abuse journalists critical of the Indian government, both online …

India’s Modi meets the press at the White House — and takes rare questions
1 year, 6 months ago

India’s Modi meets the press at the White House — and takes rare questions

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Narendra Modi did something very unusual on Thursday at the White House — he took questions from journalists. Administration officials told Modi’s advisers that taking questions from the media was a standard part of how White House state visits are conducted, the person said. Modi defended India by saying “democracy runs in our veins” and insisting that there …

Historic moment for India-US relations: It’s time Western media stopped behaving like Chinese Trojan horses
1 year, 6 months ago

Historic moment for India-US relations: It’s time Western media stopped behaving like Chinese Trojan horses

Firstpost  

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarks on a state visit to the United States, the Western media seems to be on an anti-India overdrive. The article, titled ‘India’s Worsening Democracy Makes It an Unreliable Ally’, treads the similar anti-India path as it writes, quite predictably: “The treatment of Muslims, who form 14 per cent of India’s population, has worsened. Female …

CPJ urges US to press India’s Modi on media freedom during visit
1 year, 6 months ago

CPJ urges US to press India’s Modi on media freedom during visit

Al Jazeera  

The Committee to Protect Journalists says it expects the US to make India’s media crackdown ‘a core element of discussions’. A prominent press watchdog says the United States government should urge Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to end what it called a crackdown on media as it demanded the release of six journalists “arbitrarily detained in retaliation for their work”. …

Journalists and human rights defenders in Kashmir face increasing assaults
1 year, 7 months ago

Journalists and human rights defenders in Kashmir face increasing assaults

The Hindu  

Published : May 18, 2023 11:00 IST - 10 MINS READ In Kashmir, detention of journalists no longer comes as a shock, with the State apparatus increasingly brazen in assaulting press freedom and cracking down on any form of civil society dissent. Fahad Shah, founding editor of The Kashmir Walla, an online magazine that captured police brutalities on several instances, …

South Asia Press Freedom Report exposes alarming media restrictions and corporate influence
1 year, 7 months ago

South Asia Press Freedom Report exposes alarming media restrictions and corporate influence

The Hindu  

Published : May 09, 2023 17:54 IST - 5 MINS READ The recently published South Asia Press Freedom Report 2022-2023, released by the International Federation of Journalists, sheds light on the extensive array of obstacles faced by media outlets in South Asian countries, with India at the forefront. The report, titled “Pressure & Polarisation: Powering Media Resistance in South Asia”, …

India slips another 11 places down below Afghanistan to 161st on Press Freedom Index
1 year, 7 months ago

India slips another 11 places down below Afghanistan to 161st on Press Freedom Index

The Independent  

India has slipped 11 places on the annual World Press Freedom Index published by global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, which said the last 12 months had seen the “end of pluralism” in the country. “In India, media takeovers by oligarchs close to Prime Minister Modi have jeopardised pluralism.” The RSF said in its section on India that the world’s …

India slips 11 positions on World Press Freedom Index
1 year, 7 months ago

India slips 11 positions on World Press Freedom Index

Live Mint  

The ranking of India in the 2023 World Press Freedom Index has slipped 11 places to 161, according to the latest report released by global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders. Media associations in the country have raised concerns over the 2023 World Press Freedom Index report published today. Congress leader Shashi Tharoor twitted after Reporters Without Borders realised the 2023 …

Modi Government’s Muzzling of Media Evokes Little Response Abroad
1 year, 8 months ago

Modi Government’s Muzzling of Media Evokes Little Response Abroad

The Diplomat  

On February 14, officials of India’s Income Tax Department carried out a “survey action” on the offices of the British Broadcasting Corporation in New Delhi and Mumbai. After three days of “surveying” the BBC offices – this was essentially a tax raid – the income tax department issued a press statement alleging that the BBC had evaded taxes on remittances …

Indian officials search BBC offices after Modi documentary
1 year, 10 months ago

Indian officials search BBC offices after Modi documentary

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — India’s tax officials searched BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai on Tuesday, weeks after it aired a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the U.K., the broadcaster said. The Editors Guild of India denounced the move, saying it continues “a trend of using government agencies to intimidate and harass press organizations that are critical …

Modi’s biggest asset is his legion of city-bred, party-circuit opponents
1 year, 10 months ago

Modi’s biggest asset is his legion of city-bred, party-circuit opponents

Firstpost  

The attack on Modi ahead of 2024 so far has been just like 2014 and 2019: poorly thought-out, in a language that the masses don’t relate to, and reeking of disdain for Hindus and India They speak clipped English, sneer at vernacular India, and articulate their anger like Jager Bomb revolutionaries at a pub. Their ultimate expression of defiance is …

GUEST COLUMN: MEDIA | A new phase of censorship creep in India
1 year, 10 months ago

GUEST COLUMN: MEDIA | A new phase of censorship creep in India

The Hindu  

Published : Feb 03, 2023 15:34 IST The Information Technology Rules, 2021, are back in active play, causing deep concern among those who value free speech and media freedom in India. The proposal has been sharply criticised by organisations like the Internet Freedom Foundation, which believes that “this will heavily impact the freedom of speech, expression and information online, and …

BBC and Bias: The Modi documentary, the ‘prejudiced’ lens on India, and other controversies
1 year, 10 months ago

BBC and Bias: The Modi documentary, the ‘prejudiced’ lens on India, and other controversies

Firstpost  

India: The Modi Question, the controversial BBC documentary, which revisits Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role in the 2002 Gujarat riots, continues to fan tension in India. The documentary on the 2012 Delhi gang rape It’s not the first time that the BBC has made a documentary that has angered India. Also read: Here’s why I wish I hadn’t watched Leslee …

‘We support importance of free press around the world’: U.S. on India banning BBC documentary on PM Modi
1 year, 10 months ago

‘We support importance of free press around the world’: U.S. on India banning BBC documentary on PM Modi

The Hindu  

Describing India banning the BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a matter of press freedom, the U.S. State Department said that it is high time to highlight the importance of democratic principles like freedom of expression and make it a point around the world as well as in India. Ned Price, the U.S. State Department spokesperson, in a …

'We support importance of free press...': US reacts on India's move to ban BBC documentary critical of PM Modi
1 year, 10 months ago

'We support importance of free press...': US reacts on India's move to ban BBC documentary critical of PM Modi

India TV News  

BBC documentary row: Amid the ongoing row over the BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the United States stated that it is essential to emphasise the significance of democratic concepts like freedom of expression and make it a point around the world as well as in India. It also termed India's decision to ban the BBC documentary as a …

India ban on BBC Modi documentary ‘imperils press freedom’
1 year, 10 months ago

India ban on BBC Modi documentary ‘imperils press freedom’

Al Jazeera  

Media groups say India’s government is abusing its emergency powers under the 2021 IT Rules by blocking a BBC documentary. An adviser in India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Saturday said that Twitter and YouTube have been asked to block links sharing the BBC documentary, India: The Modi Question, which the government earlier labelled as a “propaganda piece“. The …

India says BBC film on Modi’s role in Gujarat riots ‘propaganda’
1 year, 11 months ago

India says BBC film on Modi’s role in Gujarat riots ‘propaganda’

Al Jazeera  

The BBC documentary features the findings of a UK inquiry into the 2002 deadly riots, which reveals PM Modi failed to stop the violence. India’s foreign ministry has dismissed as “propaganda” a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi that questions his leadership during the deadly 2002 Gujarat riots. The report of a United Kingdom inquiry showcased in the documentary …

India’s top editors’ body slams proposed ‘fake news’ rules
1 year, 11 months ago

India’s top editors’ body slams proposed ‘fake news’ rules

Al Jazeera  

The Editors Guild of India urged the government to scrap the proposed amendment, saying it ‘will result in the censorship of the press’. The Editors Guild of India, India’s premier body for protecting press freedom, has urged the government to reject a proposal to combat fake news on social media, saying it would be akin to censorship. “Determination of fake …

Concerns over free press in India after NDTV’s Ravish Kumar quits
2 years ago

Concerns over free press in India after NDTV’s Ravish Kumar quits

Al Jazeera  

One of India’s most popular TV journalists quits the network recently acquired by a billionaire tycoon considered close to the BJP. The resignation of one of India’s most popular TV journalists from a network recently acquired by a billionaire tycoon close to the ruling party has sparked concerns over press freedom in the country. Radhika Roy Prannoy Roy Private Ltd …

Journalist associations express concern over police searches against The Wire editors
2 years, 1 month ago

Journalist associations express concern over police searches against The Wire editors

The Hindu  

Several journalist associations on Tuesday expressed concern over the Delhi Police searches against the editors of The Wire news portal, conducted on the basis of a first information report lodged by Bharatiya Janata Party national head of IT Amit Malviya alleging cheating, forgery, defamation and criminal conspiracy. In a joint statement, the Press Club of India, Delhi Union of Journalists, …

Media in Kerala not highlighting national issues, says Rajesh
2 years, 2 months ago

Media in Kerala not highlighting national issues, says Rajesh

The Hindu  

The media in Kerala, including major newspapers and news channels, is not highlighting important national issues but is going overboard on regional developments, Minister for Local Self-Governments and Excise M.B. When fact-checking website Alt News’ co-founder Mohammed Zubair was arrested and taken from one place to another in connection with various cases, the media in Kerala was gung-ho about a …

Film on anchor Ravish Kumar ‘angry letter to journalism’ in India
2 years, 3 months ago

Film on anchor Ravish Kumar ‘angry letter to journalism’ in India

Al Jazeera  

While We Watched, a documentary on popular TV journalist, is a ‘wake-up call to how perilous and fragile relationship between free press and democracy is’. In his acceptance speech, Shukla said: “All of us believe at some point in our life that we can be something that is bigger than ourselves and then we spend a lot of time being …

INTERVIEW | “I am shaken, but not crushed”: Rajmohan Gandhi
2 years, 4 months ago

INTERVIEW | “I am shaken, but not crushed”: Rajmohan Gandhi

The Hindu  

Published : Aug 14, 2022 06:00 IST - 10 MINS READ Rajmohan Gandhi’s India After 1947 appears just as the government launches its celebrations around 75 years of Independence. What will raise India’s standing and restrain India’s enemies, wherever they might exist, is not a muscular, aggressive or divisive Ram, but a united nation where Indians trust one another and …

The Press Freedom Index is Prepared With Bias and a Flawed Methodology
2 years, 7 months ago

The Press Freedom Index is Prepared With Bias and a Flawed Methodology

News 18  

Last week, news came into the limelight that press freedom in India has decreased dramatically as India slid in the index of press freedom. This report was released by an organisation called Reporters Without Borders, a non-profit and non-governmental organisation without any accountability, with the World Press Freedom Index. Although it would not be unfair to assume that the sample …

Modi hails role played by media in promoting programmes like Swachh Bharat Mission
2 years, 9 months ago

Modi hails role played by media in promoting programmes like Swachh Bharat Mission

Deccan Chronicle  

Kozhikode: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said media can play a positive role in changing the lives of people and hailed the contribution of the fourth estate in promoting government's ambitious initiatives like Swachch Bharat Mission, popularising Yoga, fitness and 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' scheme, saying these are the subjects beyond the domain of politics. Every media house took …

Research paper by IIMC shows how Western media uses half-truths and racist colonial biases against India
2 years, 10 months ago

Research paper by IIMC shows how Western media uses half-truths and racist colonial biases against India

Op India  

Journalism, which Thomas Carlyle referred to as the “fourth pillar of democracy” in his book Heroes and Hero-Worship, is more relevant than ever in the current situation when the entire world is more democratic than ever before. In the final case, The New York Times published an editorial On December 19, 2013, praising the detention of Devyani Khobragade, then-deputy India’s …

Media watchdog asks India to release Kashmiri journalist
2 years, 11 months ago

Media watchdog asks India to release Kashmiri journalist

Associated Press  

SRINAGAR, India — The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists asked Indian authorities to immediately release a journalist in disputed Kashmir, days after police arrested him for uploading a video clip of a protest against Indian rule. It wrote on Twitter it was asking Indian authorities to “drop their investigation related to his journalistic work.” Indian soldiers picked up Gul …

Media has key role to play in vibrant democracy of India: I&B Minister on National Press Day
3 years, 1 month ago

Media has key role to play in vibrant democracy of India: I&B Minister on National Press Day

The Hindu  

Media is a watchdog and has a key role to play in the vibrant democracy of India, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said on November 16. In his audio-visual message on the occasion of National Press Day, Mr. Thakur called on the media to curb the menace of fake news. “National Press Day is a day to reflect …

Is India at war with journalism?
3 years, 4 months ago

Is India at war with journalism?

Al Jazeera  

On Tuesday, July 27 at 19:30 GMT: Amid accusations of India’s government using spyware on journalists, Indian tax authorities raided several offices of prominent media organisations known for critical coverage of the government’s COVID-19 response. In this year’s Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index, India ranks 142 out of 180 countries. Due to the deaths of four journalists who …

Anti-Modi, anti-India articles published by New York Time in last yew years
3 years, 5 months ago

Anti-Modi, anti-India articles published by New York Time in last yew years

Op India  

For years now, the New York Times has been accused of being brazenly Hinduphobic and anti-Modi in the content that is published on its website. Source: New York Times However, the New York Times published an article to allege that it was the result of the policies pursued by the Modi government. NYT’s treachery on Farmers’ Protest The ongoing farmers …

How Reuters published fake news against PM Modi facing 'internal dissent' due to COVID scourge
3 years, 5 months ago

How Reuters published fake news against PM Modi facing 'internal dissent' due to COVID scourge

Op India  

On Tuesday, international news agency Reuters had published a report titled “After COVID surge, some signs of internal dissent against India’s Modi” suggesting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing dissent and dissatisfaction within his own party BJP due to Covid-19 cases. His statements were padded up with the statement of an ‘anonymous’ leader of the BJP to suggest that …

Modi: Local media have gone easy on India’s Prime Minister. That’s changing because of the pandemic
3 years, 7 months ago

Modi: Local media have gone easy on India’s Prime Minister. That’s changing because of the pandemic

CNN  

New Delhi CNN Business — Om Gaur is in the middle of the most heart-wrenching story of his career as a journalist. Dainik Bhaskar, one of India’s biggest Hindi-language newspapers, published its story last week with the headline, “Ganga is ashamed.” “I have never seen anything like this in my 35-year-long career,” Gaur told CNN Business. “Mainstream media, particularly broadcast …

The government tries to erect a facade of media freedom in response to India's low ranking in Press Freedom Index
3 years, 7 months ago

The government tries to erect a facade of media freedom in response to India's low ranking in Press Freedom Index

The Hindu  

The last week of April 2021 witnessed manifold frantic attempts by the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre to refute public comments and reports that criticised its abject failures in handling the second wave of COVID-19 in India. Indeed, says the IMC report on page 16, “a meeting between the Ambassador of India to France and RSF …

Opinion: Modi has offered little more than hollow words amid India’s horrifying covid crisis
3 years, 7 months ago

Opinion: Modi has offered little more than hollow words amid India’s horrifying covid crisis

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Akanksha Singh is a journalist based in Mumbai, India. Desperate cries for medication and oxygen tanks abound on Twitter and Instagram, where posts read, “In need of ICU bed” or “Plasma urgently required for treatment of Covid patient in Max Hospital, Delhi.” One journalist live-tweeted his Covid-19 symptoms and died while waiting for help. But India’s government – …

‘Alarmed’ by FIRs Against Journalists, WAN-IFRA Writes To PM Modi
3 years, 10 months ago

‘Alarmed’ by FIRs Against Journalists, WAN-IFRA Writes To PM Modi

The Quint  

Further, the international organisations express concern over estimates of at least 50 journalists at local, regional and national level having been subjected to ‘legal jeopardy’ since 2020. “We are deeply concerned that such persistent recourse to legal action suggests a systematic and barely disguised attempt to criminalise professional journalism, a claim evidenced by the growing pattern of legal cases, personal …

Discover Related