Indian reporter who filmed attack on women free on bail
March 25, 2013 12:20 PM ET
New York, March 25, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release on bail of Naveen Soorinje, a television reporter jailed for more than four months after documenting a large-scale assault on a group of young women in Karnataka state....
Court frees Indian journalist held on terrorism charges
February 27, 2013 3:42 PM ET
Police arrested Muthi-Ur-Rahman Siddiqui on August 29, 2012, and accused him of being involved in a terror plot to kill Hindu nationalist leaders and journalists in Bangalore, in the southern state of Karnataka. Siddiqui worked as a reporter for the...
Under Hindu right, attacks on press rise in Karnataka
February 26, 2013 4:49 PM ET
Confusion surrounds the case of imprisoned Indian journalist Naveen Soorinje, who was jailed for exposing an attack on young men and women last summer by extremists belonging to the Hindu Jagran Vedike, self-appointed moral police in coastal Karnataka. Soorinje's report...
Indian reporter who exposed assault faces new litigation
February 7, 2013 3:52 PM ET
Indian journalist Naveen Soorinje continues to languish in prison despite last week's decision by the Karnataka state cabinet to withdraw charges against him. New developments this week are challenging his release. And his continued imprisonment raises a larger question about...
Amid rape furor, journalist still in jail for exposing assault
January 8, 2013 12:27 PM ET
Even though members of the Karnataka state government have provided broad assurances that they will drop charges against Naveen Soorinje, the young journalist remains imprisoned two months after he was arrested for exposing an assault on women by Hindu...