Call for independent probe into tribal reporter’s murder in Jharkhand

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Indian authorities to set up an independent enquiry into the murder of Amit Topno, a tribal community reporter in the eastern state Jharkhand, because the local police investigation has stalled. Topno’s body was found at the side of a road in Ranchi, the state’s capital, exactly one month ago today.A member of India’s Adivasi (indigenous peoples), Topno was from Khunti, a district 40 km south of Ranchi, where he covered his Adivasi community’s resistance against abuses and ex

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