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LONDON: India fell two places on a global index of press freedom to rank 142nd out of 180 countries in the annual Reporters Without Borders analysis released Tuesday.
The 2020 World Press Freedom Index said that without the killings of journalists in India in 2019, up from six in 2018, the security situation for the country’s media could appear, at first glance, to have improved.
“However, there have been constant violations of press freedom, including police violence against journalists, ambushes by political activists, and retaliation instigated by criminal groups or corrupt local officials,” he said.
He attributed the decline in the index to “pressure on the media to follow the line of the Hindu nationalist government.”
The “coordinated hate campaigns” being waged on social media against journalists who dare to speak or write about issues that annoy Hindutva supporters are “alarming,” he said.
“The campaigns are particularly virulent when the targets are women,” he said.
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF), based in Paris, or Reporters Without Borders, is a non-profit organization that works to document and combat attacks on journalists around the world.
South Asia overall is poorly on the index, with Pakistan down three places to 145 and Bangladesh down one place to 151.
Norway is first in the Index for the fourth consecutive year. China at position 177 is only three places above North Korea, which is at position 180.
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The 2020 World Press Freedom Index said that without the killings of journalists in India in 2019, up from six in 2018, the security situation for the country’s media could appear, at first glance, to have improved.
“However, there have been constant violations of press freedom, including police violence against journalists, ambushes by political activists, and retaliation instigated by criminal groups or corrupt local officials,” he said.
He attributed the decline in the index to “pressure on the media to follow the line of the Hindu nationalist government.”
The “coordinated hate campaigns” being waged on social media against journalists who dare to speak or write about issues that annoy Hindutva supporters are “alarming,” he said.
“The campaigns are particularly virulent when the targets are women,” he said.
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF), based in Paris, or Reporters Without Borders, is a non-profit organization that works to document and combat attacks on journalists around the world.
South Asia overall is poorly on the index, with Pakistan down three places to 145 and Bangladesh down one place to 151.
Norway is first in the Index for the fourth consecutive year. China at position 177 is only three places above North Korea, which is at position 180.
