India: Uttar Pradesh reporter gunned down for covering sand mafia

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities in Uttar Pradesh state, in northern India, to appoint an independent team to investigate the shocking murder of Shubham Mani Tripathi, a newspaper reporter who recently said he feared being killed, and to bring the instigators to justice. A local correspondent for the Kampu Mail, a Hindi-language daily, Shubham Mani Tripathi died on the spot when he was shot six times, three of them in the head, on 19 June in Unnao, a

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