New Delhi: Reporters Without Borders (RSF), who publish the Press Freedom Index in which India ranks 151st out of 180 countries, last month published a Press Freedom Predators list in which two Indian entities were named.
The ‘predators’ list comprises people, organisations, corporations and governments who “kill, censor, imprison and assault journalists, throttle news media, denigrate journalism, or use its codes to manipulate information for propaganda purposes.”
The RSF has identified the Gautam Adani-run conglomerate Adani Group and the Hindutva propaganda website OpIndia as ‘press freedom predators’.
Among global predators are veterans like the Chinese Communist Party with Xi Jinping at its head, Saudi Arabia’s prince Mohammed bin Salman, Russian president Vladimir Putin and Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko.
Also in the list are the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), responsible for the deaths of nearly 220 journalists under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Myanmar’s State Peace and Security Commission, Burkina Faso’s military junta, led by Captain Ibrahim Traoré and billionaire Elon Musk who uses his social media X to harass journalists.
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