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The sad case of Indian journalist Mukesh Chandrakar, found brutally murdered for investigating a corruption case.
He was a journalist’s journalist, reporting independently, with limited resources, from a poor region facing violence between Maoist guerrillas and mining interests.
Via @nrc_nl
https://rsf.org/en/indian-reporter-murdered-exposing-corruption-surrounding-road-contract
rsf.orgIndian reporter murdered for exposing corruption surrounding road contractReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Indian authorities to lose no time in bringing to justice those responsible for the murder of a journalist whose battered body was found in a septic tank in Bijapur, in the east-central state of Chhattisgarh, shortly after he reported on the poor state of a road built by a local contractor, who has been arrested as the main suspect.
Here the story in Dutch from @nrc_nl
Terrible. Things aren’t going well in India for Press Freedom; whether top-down Orbanization of the media, State harassment, or here, Mafia murders.
NRCDe Indiase journalist Mukesh Chandrakar deed belangrijke onthullingen - en eindigde in een septische tankPersvrijheid India: Het lichaam van de 33-jarige journalist Mukesh Chandrakar werd gevonden in een septische tank van een aannemer over wie hij kritisch had geschreven. „Freelance journalisten missen de bescherming van nationale mediabedrijven.”