India: Journalist hounded, charged over allegedly blasphemous cartoon

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the Indian authorities to respect press freedom and to protect Swathi Vadlamudi, a journalist who is charged with blasphemy and is the target of a campaign of violent online harassment and death threats over a cartoon she drew of two Hindu gods.Swathi Vadlamudi, who works at the bureau of The Hindu newspaper in Hyderabad, the capital of the southern state of Telangana, is facing a possible three-year jail sentenc

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