Journalists’ Group Protests India Move Against Reporter
The International Federation of Journalists has cabled Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to protest what it called the “continued harassment” of Associated Press correspondent Brahma Chellaney.
Authorities have impounded Chellaney’s passport and have not renewed his 1985 journalist’s accreditation.
Chellaney, 27, an Indian citizen, is free on bail but faces preliminary police charges of sedition, inciting communal discord and violating press censorship with his reporting from Punjab state during the Indian army assault on the Sikh’s Golden Temple at Amritsar in June, 1984.
The federation asked in its message to Gandhi for the free exercise of journalism in India.
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