India

  • 18 Jun 2015
    Prasanta Kumar

    Country India  State Assam  Violation Type Attack  Target Journalist

    Prasanta Kumar, the Khairabari correspondent of Assamese daily Asamiya Pratidin, was shot and attacked by a group of five people while returning home from dropping a friend on his motorbike. An attacker shot him in his shoulder and then after blindfolding him, forced him into a car. The attackers stole his money and mobile phone, before throwing him out of the car. Kumar survived the attack.

  • 17 Jun 2015
    Haider Khan

    Country India  State Uttar Pradesh  Violation Type Attack  Target Journalist

    An attempt was made on the life of stringer Haider Khan. Khan was working for a local TV station in Pilibit district and, at the time of his attack, was reporting on a land usurpation case. Khan was following up on a tip-off to an accident, but when he arrived at the scene he was attacked by a group who tied him up and dragged him behind a motorcycle till he lost consciousness. - See more at: https://samsn.ifj.org/uttar-pradesh-journalist-dragged-behind-motorcycle-for-exposing-corruption/#sthash.DxHNXYmB.dpuf

  • 9 Jun 2015
    Jagendra Singh

    Country India  State Uttar Pradesh  Violation Type Killing  Target Journalist

    Freelance journalist Jagendra Singh was set on fire in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, in India’s north. Singh died from major burn injuries sustained after he was allegedly set alight a week earlier. Singh, 42, died in Lucknow Hospital on June 9, after he was brought in with burns to 60 percent of his body following the June 1 incident.