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CPJ Safety Advisory: Covering protests in India
February 25, 2020 3:25 PM ET
Demonstrations are continuing across India following the introduction of the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in December 2019, as reported by The Guardian. Violence has escalated with at least four people killed yesterday, and at least 10 people killed and over 150 injured today, according to news reports. In...
Indian journalist Arfa Khanum Sherwani receives death threats after BJP officials share edited video
February 24, 2020 3:25 PM ET
New York, February 24, 2020 -- Bharatiya Janata Party officials must cease inciting online harassment against journalist Arfa Khanum Sherwani, and Indian authorities should ensure that threats against journalists are taken seriously, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
After WhatsApp spyware allegations, Indian journalists demand government transparency
February 24, 2020 9:06 AM ET
In the summer of 2019, Saroj Giri was preparing a lecture on the panopticon—an 18th century system to surveil an entire prison from a single viewpoint—when a message lit up his phone. It was from WhatsApp, warning Giri that someone had tried to hack the popular messaging app to...
Journalist Valley Rose Hungyo on running the only daily newspaper for Nagas in Manipur
February 20, 2020 5:11 PM ET
Editor Valley Rose Hungyo founded the bilingual Tangkhul and English Aja Daily, the only daily newspaper among the Naga people in India’s northeastern Manipur state, in the early 1990s with her late husband. They saw a need for a Naga-language paper, amid a media scene in the state dominated...
Manipur's ex-journalist chief minister pursues Imphal Free Press for defamation
February 20, 2020 7:05 AM ET
On the morning of February 1, instead of working on her usual assignments for the Imphal Free Press, journalist Babie Shirin drove with the newspaper’s publisher Mayengbam Satyajit Singh to a court on the other side of town. On arrival, they were arrested, then granted bail on a bond...
Jammu and Kashmir police question three journalists amid social media ban
February 19, 2020 12:48 PM ET
New Delhi, February 19, 2020—Jammu and Kashmir police have summoned three journalists this month, including photojournalist Kamran Yousuf, who was questioned about social media activity, according to news reports and CPJ interviews. In January, after a lengthy communications shutdown in the region, the Indian government restored access to under...
China expels 3 Wall Street Journal journalists over opinion headline
February 19, 2020 10:55 AM ET
Taipei, February 19, 2020 -- Chinese authorities should immediately restore the press credentials of three Wall Street Journal journalists and allow the media to report freely in the country, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Pakistani journalist murdered after warning of threats against him
February 17, 2020 12:45 PM ET
Washington, D.C., February 17, 2020 -- Pakistan authorities should take swift action to launch a thorough and credible investigation into the murder of journalist Aziz Memon, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Memon, who worked for the privately-owned Sindhi TV channel KTN News and the Sindhi-language Daily Kawish...
Pakistan government secretly passes strict social media regulations
February 13, 2020 4:30 PM ET
Washington, D.C., February 13, 2020 -- The Pakistan government should immediately roll back a set of social media regulatory measures that were passed in secret, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....