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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Five journalists killed in India in 2012

Five journalists killed in India in 2012

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published Published on Jan 2, 2013   modified Modified on Jan 2, 2013
-The Times of India

If you think that journalism is a glamorous profession, here's a reality check. Five journalists were killed and 38 assaulted, harassed or threatened across the country in 2012, says the annual report on free speech violations by Free Speech Hub of the media watch website, Hoot.org.

Journalist Chandrika Rai, his wife and their two teenage children were murdered at their residence in Madhya Pradesh's Umaria distict in February. Other scribes to be killed this year were: Rajesh Mishra in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, Chaitali Santra in Kolkata and Raihan Naiyum, in Assam. In December, television journalist, Nanao Singh was shot dead in a police firing in Manipur.

The toll could have been higher. But some journalists survived murderous attempts. Thongam Rina, associate editor of Arunachal Times, was shot at and critically injured in July. Kamal Shukla in Chhattisgarh was allegedly assaulted by a local politician because he wrote a story on illegal tree-felling in Koelibeda, the constituency of the state's forest minister Vikram Usendi, a press release of the report says. In Gujarat's Palampur district, tv journalist Devendra Khandelwal was attacked with iron pipes allegedly by relatives of MLA Mafatlal Purohit for reporting their involvement in illegal construction.

Last year ended with a Kannada TV reporter, Naveen Soorinje, spending more than 50 days in jail after the Karnataka High Court denied him bail. Mangalore-based Soorinje, was incarcerated from November 7, 2012 after police charged him under the UAPA and under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for reporting on the raid on a home stay party by a Hindu fundamentalist group in July, the release said. Soorinje's bail application was rejected on December 26.

According to the report, there were also 43 instances of curbs on the Internet, 14 instances of censorship in the film and music industry, and eight instances of censorship of content in the print medium in 2012.

The Times of India, 2 January, 2013, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Five-journalists-killed-in-India-in-2012/articleshow/17850155.cms


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