(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to the governor of Assam State, S. K. Sinha, RSF protested the assault on a journalist by a magistrate. RSF asked the governor to sanction the magistrate. “Your duty as a governor is to protect journalists who are merely trying to do their work,” Robert Ménard, the organisation’s secretary-general, reminded […]
(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to the governor of Assam State, S. K. Sinha, RSF protested the assault on a journalist by a magistrate. RSF asked the governor to sanction the magistrate. “Your duty as a governor is to protect journalists who are merely trying to do their work,” Robert Ménard, the organisation’s secretary-general, reminded him.
According to the information collected by RSF, Parag Saikia, a journalist at the daily “Aji”, was beaten on 6 July 2000 by L. N. Tamuly, a magistrate in the town of Sibsagar (Assam province, east of the country). The journalist had been summoned by the magistrate and reproached for publishing an article on 1 July about the local authorities’ alleged involvement in corruption. The magistrate struck Saikia inside the official building. The journalist was taken to hospital with various injuries.
