Full-page ad in WaPo highlights attacks on press in India

June 21, 2023 23:24

If you think Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first state visit to the US is all about encomiums, testimonials from officials high and low, and gushing public welcome, you have another think coming.

We know that a group of American lawmakers have written to United States President Joe Biden, asking him to raise directly with Prime Minister Narendra Modi "areas of concern", like the shrinking of political space, the rise of religious intolerance, the targeting of civil society organisations and journalists, and growing restrictions on press freedoms and internet access".

We've also been told that President Biden, mindful of India's importance in America's emerging scheme of things in the Asia-Pacific, will not "lecture' Modi on any of the topics mentioned above.

And now, the Committee to Protect Journalists and partner organisations have joined in, by taking out a full-page advertisement (image alongside) in the Washington Post highlighting the press freedom crisis in India ahead of Prime Minister Modi's official state visit to the US begins.

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