Two Rights Groups Back Irfaan Khan

The International Press Institute and the World Press Freedom Committee issued a press release earlier this week condemning the recent decision of a court in India to sentence four journalists including cartoonist Irfaan Khan for contempt charges because their work portrayed a former justice in a less than totally flattering light. Those sentences were suspended for the sake of another hearing yet to be held. The release is useful if you want to read an advocacy-type summary of the case to date, and may be that much more helpful if you follow the links provided and choose to see the case portrayed in the context of other Indian abuses of the journalistic class. It's not a reach to see the court decision -- which decided to ignore both the status of the justice as an ex-member, and, oh, the simple matter that all four journalists stand behind their takes as 100 percent true -- as part of a presumption that exists in some places in that country's culture against the kind of press freedom you might expect to see in a mature democracy.
 
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