Version imprimableThe Editors Guild of India
PRESS STATEMENT
April 8th, 2022
The Editors Guild of India is shocked and outraged by the manner in which the police of Sidhi district, Madhya Pradesh, arrested, stripped, and humiliated a local journalist as well as some members of the civil society, on April 2, 2022, in retaliation against protest and associated news coverage of arrest of another member of civil society. Kanishk Tewari, a local reporter was covering the protest against the arrest of a theatre artist who had allegedly made some indecent remarks against a Bhartiya Janata Party MLA and his son.
Further shockingly, the police shot pictures of the journalist and activists and released them on social media in order to shame and humiliate them.
Though the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, has suspended the cops and ordered an inquiry into this horrendous case, but this increasing tendency of the police and local administration to brazenly attack and intimidate journalists is extremely disturbing and needs to be checked.
In another incident in Odisha on April 7, police in the Balasore district chained a journalist
