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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why does that smell so much like the death of the free press? I'm getting West Taiwan vibes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Because india is sliding backwards at an astonishing rate.

It's going to be a rude wake-up call when the rest of the world moves on without them.

[–] reddit_sux 4 points 1 year ago

West Taiwan

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I have a feeling the people of India should start buying window locks so they don't start falling out of them.

[–] monsieur_habibi 8 points 1 year ago

Election season is coming so the party in power is trying all possible things to divert the population's attention away from all their fallacies and lacking

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


NewsClick founder and editor Prabir Purkayastha and human resources chief Amit Chakravarty were arrested late Tuesday.

Earlier, some journalists associated with the site were detained and had their digital devices seized during extensive raids that were part of an investigation into whether the news outlet had received funds from China.

That same month, India’s junior minister for information and broadcasting, Anurag Thakur, accused NewsClick of spreading an “anti-India agenda,” citing the New York Times report, and of working with the opposition Indian National Congress party.

On Wednesday, hundreds of journalists and activists in New Delhi held protests against the raids on NewsClick and the broader crackdown on indepedent media under Modi.

We urge the Indian government to immediately cease these actions, as journalists must be allowed to work without fear of intimidation or reprisal,” Beh Lih Yi, CPJ’s Asia program coordinator, said in a statement.

In February, authorities searched the BBC’s New Delhi and Mumbai offices over accusations of tax evasion a few days after it broadcast a documentary in Britain that examined Modi’s role in anti-Muslim riots in 2002.


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