A television journalist has been detained for criticising the BJP government on social media under laws intended to ensure national security, leading to protests in Delhi. Kishorechandra Wangkhem was working for a television channel in the Manipur when he uploaded several video clips last month calling the state’s BJP chief minister, N Biren Singh, a “puppet” of the central government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It is nothing but […]

During his decade as Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico flashed all the moves of the strongman autocrats now so in vogue the world over. He snarled at journalists, answering tough questions with ­epithets such as “hyena” and “prostitute.” He scapegoated Muslim refugees and a Jewish financier for his country’s troubles. His party cozied up to Slovak oligarchs, Russian apparatchiks and Italian mafia kingpins, while he lived large in a luxurious […]

Journalism is a hazardous profession. CBS News correspondent Lara Logan suffered a brutal sexual assault in Egypt’s Tahrir Square in 2011 while covering the country’s Arab Spring upheaval. In 2014, an Islamic State video showed the beheading of Steven Sotloff, a US journalist who was held hostage by the militants. Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in 2002. Journalists all over the world […]

Buoyed by allegations of sexual harassments, the Meghalaya Governor V. Shanmuganathan resigned from his office last Thursday. Even the much-dignified position of enjoying the highest authority in the state had to bow down before the courageous journalism carried out by a local reporter named Ri Kynti Marwein. Had it not been for her, the shameful acts of authority would have remained suppressed under the pillars of Raj Bhavan in Shillong. […]

Jagendra Singh published articles on Facebook criticising local minister Said Ram Murti Verma was involved in rape and high level corruption The following day police raided his house and he was burned alive Officers claimed he committed suicide, but are now charged with murder Verma has also been charged along with police chief Sri Prakash Rai An Indian politician and five policemen have been charged with murder after a journalist […]

  One foreign photographer has been killed and a reporter wounded in a shooting by an Afghan policeman in the country’s east, a day before presidential elections. Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, a 48-year-old German national, was killed instantly according to the news agency, while AP reporter Kathy Gannon, a Canadian, was wounded in the attack on Friday. “Anja and Kathy together have spent years in Afghanistan covering the conflict […]