India: Journalists on Edge
India, where journalism has always been a hazardous profession, has become a killing-field, with eight murdered in the first nine months of 2017. That followed the murders of six in 2016 and five in 2015. Two were killed in 2014 and 11 in 2013.
Across the country, reporters are also regularly beaten, often by the police, for unflattering articles. On Sep…
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