[HN Gopher] Indian journalist arrested after he questions a mini...
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Indian journalist arrested after he questions a minister over
election promises
Author : throwaway384629
Score : 61 points
Date : 2023-03-14 22:06 UTC (55 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (www.tribuneindia.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.tribuneindia.com)
| random314 wrote:
| This is fairly standard for India, especially UP which is the
| least developed state in India (along with Bihar).
|
| If you want to see something really egregious, check this out. A
| lower caste woman was raped and murdered by upper caste men. The
| really egregious part - the woman actually ended up dying one
| week later and her dying declaration identifying her 4 rapists
| and murderers was ruled inadmissible. After a nation wide outrage
| the rapists were arrested.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Hathras_gang_rape_and_mur...
|
| Once the news cycle calmed down, the following happened
|
| 1. The lower caste family of the victim could no longer find any
| work and feared stepping out of the house.
|
| 2. 3 of the rapists were set free based on a dubious report filed
| by the police which was hand in glove with the local upper caste
| leaders. The single convict was absolved of the murder charge
| because the woman did not die soon enough.
| https://www.thequint.com/news/india/hathras-rape-murder-vict...
|
| 3. A bunch of Muslim journalists were jailed for multiple years
| on sedition charges for trying to report on the incident, as per
| their job duties.
|
| https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/malayala...
|
| https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/explained-who-is-siddiq...
|
| https://maktoobmedia.com/india/muslim-cab-driver-uapa-prison...
|
| ALternate link: https://archive.is/bXtdg
|
| Another puke worthy case where BJP leaders took out processions
| in support of the rapists and murderers of an 8 year old girl.
| The reason for the support? the 8 year old victim was Muslim
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Unnao_rape_case
| Karupan wrote:
| Over zealous members and supporters of political parties have
| always done this in India. The difference I see is that they have
| become much more brazen in the past few years and don't care
| about negative publicity. This along with draconian laws make it
| easy to accuse anyone (including journalists) of "causing a
| ruckus", "hurting religious sentiments" and other vague and made
| up charges.
|
| We are heading down a very dangerous road to totalitarian
| governments at both central and state levels.
| throwaway384629 wrote:
| Here is the original video where he is asking questions to the
| minister (He is speaking Hindi):
|
| https://twitter.com/RahulMukherji5/status/163553639352619008...
|
| Here is the video after he got arrested his hands tied with a
| chain/handcuffs:
|
| https://mobile.twitter.com/yadavakhilesh/status/163564370315...
| alephnerd wrote:
| Welcome to low level politics in India. Piss off an MLA or
| Panchayat Member, let alone an MP, and being arrested would be
| the least of your worries.
|
| At least this guy wasn't burned alive like the journalist who
| reported on an MLA in the neighboring district committing
| corruption and rape in 2015 -
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jagendra_Singh
|
| Jai Jai Uttar Pradesh I guess
| notch898a wrote:
| I mean if you're just going to lawlessly arrest people, why
| wouldn't the police just like arrest the upper class and take
| their shit? Why bother with some measly journalist.
| alephnerd wrote:
| The Upper Class have networks as well.
| slater wrote:
| A ruckus!
| 0xDEF wrote:
| Without the accent and grammar mistakes a lot of Indian English
| feels like something an arrogant 19th century British
| aristocrat would say.
|
| I wonder if that is also the case in countries that were
| occupied by other European powers.
| mc32 wrote:
| Quebec uses some quaint French here and there. Many diasporas
| ossify some of their original languages, but not always.
|
| I do prefer their numbers to actual bonafide French from
| France numbers. Numbers like Seventy and eighty, for example.
| [deleted]
| throwaway384629 wrote:
| Yup, anyone asking questions to government is "causing ruckus"
| according to them. :(
| openthc wrote:
| A little different in USA...question some authority and next
| thing you know that authority is paying extra special attention
| to you and your clients (cause we're all overseen by the same
| agency). At least with FOIA we can get some of the details. And
| no arrests; just fines and hassle.
| lotsofpulp wrote:
| https://theintercept.com/2023/02/05/ron-desantis-florida-vil...
|
| A governor popular enough to be considered for presidential run
| our a local official in jail for getting in the way of a
| developer family that had enough pull with the governor.
|
| > On January 30, 2023, a gaunt, 72-year-old Oren Miller -- by
| then a former commissioner, ousted from his seat by a DeSantis
| decree -- was brought handcuffed into the Marion County
| Courthouse. He had lost 20-plus pounds in the 75 days he spent
| jailed awaiting sentencing on a felony charge for, essentially,
| nothing. Or, perhaps more accurately, for fighting back against
| a powerful, well-heeled ally of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
| alephnerd wrote:
| I disagree. I've called Senior Legislative Aides and
| Congressmembers explicitives when I was still on the Hill and
| haven't had an impact on my professional career.
| TheSpiceIsLife wrote:
| A little different in Australia.
|
| Report on corruption and have your house fire bombed
|
| https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/23/polic...
| justinclift wrote:
| > And no arrests
|
| https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/policing/2023/01/12/p...
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