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Journalists covering India protests face safety risks, arrest

Journalists covering demonstrations across India following the introduction of the Citizenship Amendment Act face threats of violence and arrest. Demonstrators and police attack journalists covering the protests. Mohammed Mubashiruddin Khurram, a reporter with local Urdu-language newspaper The Siasat Daily, in Hyderabad, is arrested while covering a protest in early February. (Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui)

• CPJ Safety Advisory: Covering protests in India | Also available in हिंदी में and اردو میں
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CPJ calls on US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to support press freedom

January 29, 2020 The Honorable Mike PompeoSecretary of StateU.S. Department of State2201 C St NWWashington, D.C., 20520 Sent via email...

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