Attacked

Slogan-shouting youth believed to be Shiv Sainiks went on the rampage in the India Today office on Friday, smashing computer screens and destroying furniture with iron rods and sticks. The glass door at the entrance to the magazine’s plush office on the fifth floor of Jolly Maker building at Nariman Point was smashed to smithereens. The Sainiks shouted "Mani Shankar Murdabad" and protested...

The main Opposition Congress members staged a walk out in Chhattisgarh Assembly on the issue of alleged assault on a journalist of a local Hindi daily published from Raipur. During zero hour, leader of Opposition Mahendra Karma raised the issue of assault on the Journalist of a Hindi daily by police on Monday night. Alleging that oppression of journalists had increased during Chief Minister Raman...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, today condemned the attack on a freelance journalist in India. "Attacks on journalists for their truth telling represents a curtailment of press freedom that must be resisted," said IFJ President Christopher Warren. According information received by the IFJ, Shubhranshu...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation of journalists representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, is concerned over the recent violence directed towards journalists and media workers in Kerala, India. "It is unacceptable for journalists to be attacked in attempts to intimidate or censor reports," said IFJ President Christopher Warren today. "Journalists...

The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Saturday's attack on photographers Rafiq Maqbool of The Associated Press, and Amin War of the national newspaper The Tribune, who were beaten by police while covering a violent demonstration in Srinagar, the summer capital of war-torn Kashmir. Maqbool and War were photographing as many as 100 activists from the militant separatist group, the Democratic...

Militants of the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena Party attacked three journalists of the Marathi-language daily Mahanagar in Malvan, Maharashtra State in the west of the country on 28 August. The editor Nikhil Wagle (photo) and two journalists Yuvraj Mohite and Pramod Nirgudkar were beaten and sprayed with petrol by a crowd of rioters in the street. The editor Nikhil Wagle accused Narayan Rane, local...

RSF has expressed deep shock at the attempted murder of Sajid Rashid, editor of the Hindi-language edition of the daily "Mahanagar". Rashid was stabbed twice in the back on the evening of 24 August 2004, in Mumbai (formerly Bombay). The organisation called on the Maharashtra state authorities to take all necessary measures to identify and arrest those responsible for the attack and to protect the...

RSF has condemned the 29 June 2004 attack by militant Hindu nationalists of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the offices of the daily "Mahanagar" in Mumbai (formerly Bombay). During the raid, the BJP militants assaulted three journalists and ransacked the premises. Journalists Yuvraj Mohite, Jayesh Shirsat and Vaishali Rode were all slightly injured. The organisation pointed out that it was the...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns the recent attack on the offices of Doordarshan Television and Radio Kashmir in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Five people were killed. At about 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 26, assailants detonated a car laden with explosives near the main gate of an office complex housing the media outlets, both of which are owned by...

On 20 March 2003, RSF called on police and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya to step up their investigation of a bomb attack near the premises of the Nepalese-language newspaper "Sunchari Samachar", in Siliguri (in West Bengal state's Darjeeling district). RSF said it feared local journalists would be tempted to censor themselves when reporting on sensitive subjects since no clues...