India - Two journalists murdered in space of two weeks in Madhya Pradesh

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders deplores the death of newspaper reporter Rajesh Mishra, who was attacked and beaten over the head on 1 March in Rewa, in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, and died of his injuries the next day. His murder came less than two weeks after another journalist was clubbed to death with his wife and children in the Madhya Pradesh town of Umaria. “We are very worried but this new outbreak of violence, which highlights the dangers of investigative journalism India,” (...)

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