Independent: Reprint of Independent article leads to Indian newspaper editor’s arrest
February 13th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Newspapers, Press freedom and ethics
The Independent reports that an editor and publisher have been arrested in India after they reprinted an article by the Independent’s Johann Hari.
“Ravindra Kumar and Anand Sinha, the editor and publisher of the Kolkata-based English daily The Statesman, appeared in court yesterday charged under section 295A of the Indian Penal Code which forbids ‘deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings,’” the Independent reports.
Tags: Anand Sinha, editor, India, johann hari, Kolkata, newspaper editor, Ravindra Kumar, the Independent, the statesman
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