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India has launched a sharp assault on press freedom – but independent media is determined to resist

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When a little-known YouTube channel posted a video on February 11 calling for some of India’s most prominent journalists to “be hanged”, it marked a new danger for India’s free press. The video was shared by a host of right-wing figures despite its call to execute at least five senior journalists, all from India’s clutch of independent online news media.Among those named in the video, which claimed to reveal a “money trail” between journalists and an “anti-India conspiracy” to draw attention to protests by thousands of farmers, were co-founder Mohammed Zubair, Washington Post columnist Rana...

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India has launched a sharp assault on press freedom – but independent media is determined to resist

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