‘Journalism is not a bed of roses’: Meet the Jharkhand reporter featured in leaked Pegasus database
Rupesh Kumar Singh spent six months in jail. He said he was targeted for his reports on police violence against Adivasis. Rupesh Kumar Singh
The phone numbers of nearly 40 Indian journalists have appeared in a leaked database, which reflects potential targets of cyber surveillance through the use of the Pegasus hacking software that an Israeli company claims to sell only to governments.
While most journalists on the list are reporters and editors who work in the English-language national media in Delhi, some write for small publications faraway from the capital.