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When the Press card offered no protection: women and queer journalists on the protest frontline
Keep filming and reporting or stay safe: the choice that women and queer journalists had to weigh under the watch of an aggressive, unfriendly, and often violent police presence. By Sameeksha Sharma in Delhi How do you report from a protest when some 38,000 paramilitary personnel and police have been deployed to crush it? For women and LGBTQ+ journalists, the question is more pointed: how do you hold your ground when doing your job means risking arrest, intimidation, abuse
10 hours ago6 min read
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