Dilip Saini
Fatehpur/Geneva: Dilip Saini (45), a correspondent for Asian News International (ANI) from Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh, was stabbed to death in the Sadar Kotwali area on the night of October 30, 2024. The police have already arrested four individuals suspecting their role in the murder.
The assassination of the ANI journalist, Saini, increases the tally to four victims this year to date, which was condemned today by the Gebeva-based global media safety and rights body, Press Emblem Campaign (PEC).
PEC’s South and Southeast Asian representative Nava Thakuria informed that India earlier recorded 3 journo-murder victims namely Ashutosh Srivastava (Sudarshan News, Uttar Pradesh, killed on 13 May), Shivshankar Jha (Hindi media outlets, Bihar, 25 June) and Salman Ali Khan (Rajgarh TV, Madhya Pradesh, 17 September).
On the other hand, Pakistan lost 10 media workers to assailants followed by Bangladesh (7 media casualties during and after the mass uprising against the government in Dhaka), Myanmar (3 journos due to military atrocities), Indonesia and the Philippines (one each) in the last ten months.
Also read: Record of impunity against scribes remains gloomy
On the eve of International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists today, the PEC deplored that the record in the fight against impunity remains gloomy particularly this year as the perpetrators of violence and murders committed against journalists over the past days have enjoyed total impunity. PEC president Blaise Lempen, while revealing that Dilip became the 118th journalist to be killed globally since January 1, 2024, demanded transparent investigations into all journalist-murder incidents to book the perpetrators under the laws.
– global bihari bureau
