It’s unacceptable,” John Kirby, the coordinator for strategic communications at the US National Security Council, told journalists at the White House on Monday. Rajnath asks Obama“And we absolutely condemn any harassment of journalists anywhere under any circumstances. “We certainly condemn any efforts of intimidation or harassment of a journalist or any journalist that is just trying to do their job,” added the US president’s press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Siddiqui was one of the two journalists who had asked questions to Biden and Modi when the two leaders had addressed media-persons after the meeting at the White House. She asked the prime minister what steps he and his government were willing to take to protect the rights of Muslims and other minorities, as well as to uphold free speech in India.

Source: Wall Street Journal June 27, 2023 08:03 UTC