Journalists attacked in India since 1992
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Indian government threatens to cancel journalist Aatish Taseer’s overseas citizenship
November 7, 2019 1:50 PM ET
New Delhi, November 7, 2019 -- The Indian government must cease making threats to revoke the overseas citizenship of journalist Aatish Taseer, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Indian journalists reported among targets of alleged NSO Group WhatsApp hack
October 31, 2019 2:29 PM ET
New York, October 31, 2019—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by news reports that several journalists in India have been notified that they were among the targets of suspicious WhatsApp contact that may have been used to install advanced surveillance technology on their phones. Facebook-owned WhatsApp this week...
Getting Away with Murder
October 29, 2019 8:00 AM ET
CPJ's 2019 Global Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and their killers go free Published October 29, 2019 Somalia is the world’s worst country for the fifth year in a row when it comes to prosecuting murderers of journalists, CPJ’s 2019 Global Impunity Index found. War and...
India uses opaque legal process to suppress Kashmiri journalism, commentary on Twitter
October 24, 2019 1:30 AM ET
On August 10, 2018, the Indian government informed Twitter that an account belonging to Kashmir Narrator, a magazine based in Jammu and Kashmir, was breaking Indian law. The magazine had recently published a cover story on a Kashmiri militant who fought against Indian rule. By the end of the...
Telugu journalist Ravi Prakash arrested after refusal to remove online interviews
October 8, 2019 1:53 PM ET
New Delhi, October 8, 2019 -- The government of India’s Telangana state must immediately release Ravi Prakash, founder of independent Telugu news website Tolivelugu, and ensure he is not harassed because of his work, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Kashmir’s news media faces existential crisis amid restrictions, arrests
September 24, 2019 12:54 PM ET
On August 5, the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed a strict communication blackout in Jammu and Kashmir after stripping the state of its limited autonomous status under the Indian constitution. A month later as the restrictions continued, CPJ India Correspondent Kunal Majumder traveled to Srinagar, Kashmir’s...
Uttar Pradesh police arrest, investigate multiple journalists since August 31
September 18, 2019 1:55 PM ET
Police in Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state, have arrested, investigated, and filed complaints against journalists in several separate incidents since August 31, 2019, according to news reports and the journalists, who spoke to CPJ....
At least 2 journalists detained amid tensions in Jammu and Kashmir
August 16, 2019 3:44 PM ET
New Delhi, August 16, 2019—The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Indian government to immediately stop its harassment of journalists in Jammu and Kashmir and to allow them to work freely. Authorities have detained at least two journalists in the past week amid tensions and the communications...