Three Indian journalists could be jailed for nine years for tweets about video

By DBastard

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the police of northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state to immediately withdraw the absurd charges, including “criminal conspiracy,” that they brought against three journalists for tweeting about a video of an elderly man being beaten up by other men. The accusation clearly borders on harassment, RSF says.Brought in form of a First Information Report (FIR) on the evening of 15 June by the police of Ghaziabad, a Delhi suburb that is part of Uttar Pradesh, the accusation names three journalists – W

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