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RSF sounded the alarm Wednesday about the conditions of journalists in India, targets of harbadment and killings.
Ranked by RSF 138th country out of 180 in the World Press Freedom Index in 2018 , Already down two places from 2017, India is poised to continue its downfall at the next ranking, according to the NGO.
"In 2017, at least three journalists were murdered in India because of A fourth case is still being investigated, and in 2018 the situation appears to be worsening significantly, with only four journalists killed in the first half of the year, "RSF said in a statement.
Forty-eight reporters have been killed in India since 1992, according to a report by the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Shujaat Bukhari, renowned editor, was released on June 14 of an Anglopho daily in the sensitive Kashmir region, as well as his bodyguards, were shot dead when they left office. This is the latest badbadination of a journalist in the country.
The indictment of the Indian government
Reporters Without Borders also reports a "significant rise in the phenomenon of online harbadment and self-censorship", targeting in particular the "troll armies" (pro-Internet stalkers) in favor of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist formation, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
The NGO calls on the Indian government to "carry out serious investigations into the case of murdered journalists or victims of badbadination attempts "and to condemn and shed light on" online hate and harbadment campaigns targeting journalists ".
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