Journalists' body slams ABVP for threatening Siddharth Varadarajan

January 23, 2016 19:49

The Editors Guild of India strongly condemned the blatant acts of intimidation and threats to Siddharth Varadarajan, editor of The Wire, by student members of the ABVP in Allahabad University that forced the police to intervene to escort him to safety.

Varadarajan had been invited to deliver a public lecture on Democracy, the Media and Freedom of Expression by the president of the Allahabad University Students Union at the universitys Senate Hall on January 20, 2016.

The Editors Guild said, For a senior journalist to be threatened in such a manner at a leading university is deplorable. It is a brazen attack on freedom of expression, and the Editors Guild of India finds this mob mentality to silence those with divergent views unacceptable.

Please read Rediff.com's interview with AUSU President Richa Singh: 'Modi is India's PM, and not that of the ABVP'

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