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Journalist Injured In Baton Charge
Journalist Injured In Baton
Charge
The International Federation of
Journalists is alarmed to learn of a police action in
Bolangir district of Orissa state in eastern India, which
seriously injured independent news cameraman Amitabh
Patra.
According to partners from the Media Unity
for Freedom of the Press (MUFP), a body based in the state
capital of Bhubaneswar, on April 29, Patra was covering a
protest by residents of the Dunguripali area in the district
against a dam project that is likely to submerge their
lands. The police contingent deployed at the site,
reportedly carried out a baton charge.
Patra along
with a number of demonstrators was chased down by the police
and beaten severely. He has sustained serious head injuries
and his TV camera has been smashed beyond
repair.
The IFJ joins its partners in Orissa in
demanding that Patra be given best available medical care
and that the camera and other equipment that has been
destroyed, be replaced.
The IFJ also calls for the
police personnel who may have used disproportionate force in
the incident, to be called to
account.
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