The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday called on authorities in India to investigate a violent attack against two journalists while covering the Health Minister’s visit to the eastern state of Jharkhand and to ensure that all perpetrators are held accountable.
The reported attack took place on April 28, when Indian journalists Ashish Kumar and Sushant Kumar Soni were assaulted whil...
The failure of law enforcement to register an FIR and initiate an investigation transforms a violent incident into an institutional failure, suggesting that the response to press freedom is often secondary to official processes. The fact that the assault occurred in the presence of high-ranking officials—the Health Minister and police officers—who failed to intervene, points to a systemic vulnerability where institutional authority may be complicit or indifferent to threats against the press. Th...