Threats – Journalists
The escalating conflict between Junnar MLA Sharad Sonawane and local journalists has raised serious concerns over press freedom and the ability of the local media to report on issues of public interest. Over the past month, four independent journalists — Suresh Wani, Sneha Barve, Raichand Shinde and Sameer Raje — have alleged that they faced […] Read More
जुन्नरचे आमदार शरद सोनवणे आणि स्थानिक पत्रकार यांच्यातील वाढत्या संघर्षामुळे प्रसारमाध्यमांचे स्वातंत्र्य आणि जनहितार्थ मुद्दे मांडण्याची स्थानिक माध्यमांची क्षमता यांबाबत गंभीर चिंता निर्माण झाली आहे. गेल्या एका महिन्यात, सुरेश वाणी, स्नेहा बर्वे, रायचंद शिंदे आणि समीर राजे या चार स्वतंत्र पत्रकारांनी असा आरोप केला आहे की, त्यांना सोनवणे यांच्याशी संबंधित लोकांकडून धमक्या, ऑनलाइन ट्रोलिंग, कायदेशीर […] Read More
“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
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
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