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10 RTI Activists Killed or Assaulted Since Covid Lockdown in March 2020; As Usual No One Cares 0 The fate of the whistleblowers, killed because of use of Right to Information (RTI) to expose corruption and to demand transparency, continues unabated, despite the pandemic, with 10 RTI activists having lost their lives, across the country, since March 2020. And what is unnerving is that the cases continue to languish, thanks to apathetic attitude of law enforcing authorities, local authorities, media and society in general.
Since the implementation of the RTI Act in 2005; 91 RTI activists have been killed, 175 have been assaulted, 186 have been threatened and 7 have died by suicide, across the country. ....
0 The fate of the whistle-blowers, killed because of use of Right to Information (RTI) to expose corruption and to demand transparency, continues unabated, despite the pandemic, with 10 RTI activists having lost their lives, across the country, since March 2020. And what is unnerving is that the cases continue to languish, thanks to apathetic attitude of law enforcing authorities, local authorities, media and society in general.
Since the implementation of the RTI Act in 2005, 91 RTI activists have been killed, 175 have been assaulted, 186 have been threatened and 7 have died by suicide, across the country.
“The increase in the number of attacks on RTI users and activists since March 2020 is very disturbing, to say the least,” says Venkatesh Nayak, RTI research scholar and programme coordinator of Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI). “Such instances are rampant in Odisha in particular. The increase in the number of activists killed durin ....
Journalist abducted and killed in Maharashtra Police suspect Rohidas Dastir was killed over an old dispute. 08 Apr, 2021 Rohidas Dastir, 49, a local journalist and RTI activist, was abducted and killed in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, on Tuesday, the Wire reported. The police said his body bore multiple injury marks. A 49-year-old journalist of a local weekly was allegedly kidnapped and killed in Rahuri town of MaharashtraâÂÂs Ahmednagar district, police said on Wednesday.https://t.co/2FKwHXQR0N The Wire (@thewire in) April 7, 2021 Dastir was abducted from around College Road where he was travelling on his two-wheeler on Tuesday afternoon. The police said they have identified a suspect and it appeared that the murder was motivated by some old dispute. Investigation is underway. ....