Threats
“Threats” include threats of violence such as death or rape or acid attack, threat of blackmail and extortion, threats to family members etc, made online or offline, with the motive of subduing and intimidating opponents. Threats could be made by state or non-state actors.
“Why are you reporting so much on this rape case? You are behaving as if you have been raped,” said Waman Mhatre, the former Mayor of Badlapur, to Mohini Jadhav, a journalist with the Marathi daily Sakal. Mhatre accosted her while she was on her way to cover protests over the alleged sexual abuse of […] Read More
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat As Karnataka polls were declared last week, the police administration in Mangalore was quick to withdraw the security provided to eminent rationalist and President of, Federation of Indian Rationalist Association ( FIRA) Dr Narendra Nayak since 2016. Dr Nayak has been not merely active promoting rationalism and scientific thinking all over […] Read More
Gutsy Dalit journalist and founder of digital news channel ‘ The Mooknayak’, Meena Kotwal, was threatened after she posted a video of herself symbolically burning a copy of the Manusmriti, the regressive, anti-caste and patriarchal book of Vedic laws. After a major struggle with the Ambedkar Nagar police, she managed to get an FIR lodged […] Read More
Ropar-based journalist Amrit Pal Singh ‘Bunty’ got the shock of his life when he was sent the picture of a revolver and a holster with eight bullets on WhatsApp from an unknown number. The journalist, who has been working with Punjabi daily Ajit for the last decade, writes on several issues of corruption in the […] Read More
(Re-published from Sabrangindia with permission) Noted academic and prominent civil society member, professor Ram Puniyani has received threats and verbal abuse from unidentified goons on June 6. The former IIT Bombay professor, who is also a well-known rationalist, received the threats by phone at night. Puniyani has now registered an FIR with the Mumbai Police. Given […] Read More
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