Journalists that HuffPost India spoke with said the plight of the Hindi-language journalists working at the grassroots in UP rarely reaches Delhi. ‘Dormant’ Muslim journalist C, a journalist in UP, said that he spent Tuesday reassuring another journalist that he was not going to get booked or arrested. That journalist, C said, had shared a post he found on a WhatsApp group of a person he trusted and shared it with another WhatsApp group. That journalist, C said, was contacted a by a local police official demanding an explanation “I told him it would be okay. Journalists, C said, were also polarised over religion — now more than ever before in his experience.

Source: Huffington Post August 19, 2020 05:37 UTC