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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 08:46 AM Sep 2017

Indian journalist gunned down outside her home

Source: Associated Press


Updated 4:27 am, Wednesday, September 6, 2017





BANGALORE, India (AP) — An Indian journalist was fatally shot outside her home the southern city of Bangalore, the latest in a string of deadly attacks targeting journalists or outspoken critics of religious superstition and extreme Hindu politics.

The assailants fled on a motorcycle after spraying bullets at Gauri Lankesh on Tuesday night as she was leaving her car outside her home in the Karnataka state capital.
 
Police said they were searching for leads, but that it was too early to say who killed her. Top police officer R.K. Dutta said he had met Lankesh recently, but that she did not mention any threat to her life.

Members of Indian journalism associations expressed outrage and said they would protest Wednesday afternoon in New Delhi.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Indian-journalist-shot-killed-by-unknown-12174191.php#photo-14055698

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Indian journalist gunned down outside her home (Original Post) Judi Lynn Sep 2017 OP
... shenmue Sep 2017 #1
The alt-right is taking notes on how to do that here in the US IronLionZion Sep 2017 #2
It wont be long Soxfan58 Sep 2017 #3
Both Trump and Modi won on platforms of defining who belongs in their country IronLionZion Sep 2017 #4

IronLionZion

(45,268 posts)
2. The alt-right is taking notes on how to do that here in the US
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 08:52 AM
Sep 2017

our president has a problem with journalists and critics and the very concept of a first amendment.

IronLionZion

(45,268 posts)
4. Both Trump and Modi won on platforms of defining who belongs in their country
Wed Sep 6, 2017, 09:28 AM
Sep 2017

and anyone else can leave or suffer the consequences

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