Daily facing “sedition” and “conspiracy” charges
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has condemned a case brought by police in Ahmedabad, capital of Gujarat state, western India, against the “Times of India” for “sedition” and “criminal conspiracy” – charges which amount to serious threats to state security. City Police chief, OP Mathur, recently posted to Ahmedabad, laid a complaint against the editor […]
Newspaper office raided by protestors following publication of article about castes
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders condemns the physical attacks that members of the Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS), an organisation that defends a lower caste, staged on the headquarters of the Telugu-language daily “Andhra Jyothi” and its employees on the evening of 26 May 2008 in Hyderabad, the capital of the southern state of Andhra […]
Photojournalist shot and killed while covering armed encounter between security forces and militants
(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: IFJ Mourns Death of Photojournalist in India The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is saddened and shocked to learn of the death of photojournalist Ashok Sodhi of bullet injuries sustained while covering an armed encounter in India’s Jammu region on May 11. Sodhi, a 25-year veteran […]
Annual Report 2008: India
Annual Report 2008: India
Journalist murdered in Assam; motive to be determined
(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: Journalist Dies of Attack Wounds in India’s Assam The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is saddened and angered at news of the brutal death of Asamiya Pratidin correspondent and Morajhar Press Club president Md Muslimuddin on April 1. According to the Indian Journalists’ Union (IJU), an […]
World Report 2008: India
World Report 2008: India
Sri Lankan film director assaulted by filmmakers’ group in Madurai
(FMM/IFEX) – On 25 March 2008, a Sri Lankan film director, Thushara Peiris, was assaulted and injured in Kalaignar Karunanidhi Nagar, a suburb of the city of Madurai, by a group of individuals who identified themselves as members of the Tamil Nadu Film Directors’ Association. Peiris was in Madurai to work on a Tamil-language copy […]
Attacks on the Press in 2007: India
Attacks on the Press in 2007: India
Freedom of the Press 2007: India
Freedom of the Press 2007: India
Threatened Bangladeshi feminist writer leaves India for Europe
(WiPC/IFEX) – WiPC has been informed that Taslima Nasrin left India for Europe on 19 March 2008. WiPC continues to urge the Indian authorities to publicly condemn the violence and death threats against Nasrin. Controversial Bangladeshi feminist writer Nasrin was placed under protection in a safe house in Delhi on 21 November 2007 following violent […]
Growing concerns for the health and safety of controversial feminist Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin in Delhi
(WiPC/IFEX) – International PEN’s Writers in Prison Committee is increasingly concerned for the safety and well-being of Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin, who has been under government protection in a safe house in Delhi since 21 November 2007. Her health is said to be rapidly deteriorating and there are concerns about her treatment in confinement and […]
Armed vigilantes attack newspaper van, destroy entire cargo of the day’s edition, set van ablaze
Armed vigilantes attack newspaper van, destroy entire (IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: IFJ Condemns Ban On Newspaper, Attack On Delivery Van The International Federation of Journalists condemns the “ban” imposed on a daily newspaper, Asamiya Pratidin, by a political party in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam. According to information received […]
Two journalists ordered out of their car at gunpoint, subjected to full-body searches
(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: IFJ Worried Over the Harassment of Journalists In India’s North-East The International Federation of Journalists has learnt from affiliate organisations in the north-eastern Indian state of Tripura of the harassment of two senior journalists by elements of the armed police force assigned to special security duties […]
Television station director fired upon; IFJ urges investigation
(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: IFJ Calls For Investigation Into Attack on TV Channel Chief in India’s Guwahati The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) urges the authorities in the Indian state of Assam to urgently investigate the likelihood that there may have been an attempt on the life of Ms. Manoranjana […]
Journalist killed, police protect state minister from allegations of involvement
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has called for a thorough investigation into the murder of journalist Pramod Kumar Munna in the northeastern state of Jharkhand, in which the police are ignoring evidence pointing to the possible involvement of a minister in the state government. Munna was shot dead in the city of Deoghar on 16 […]
Hindu fundamentalists ransack TV station in Gujarat
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders condemns an armed attack by about 20 Hindu fundamentalists on the studios of NDTV in Ahmedabad, in the western state of Gujarat, on 19 January 2008. Armed with hockey sticks and iron bars, the members of the little-known group Hindu Samarajya Sena smashed doors, windows, air-conditioning units, phones and studio […]