A journalist with India Today has alleged she received “numerous threatening phone calls” with “mob” gathering at her hotel due to her reportage on the Manipur violence.
Afrida Hussain, deputy editor of India Today’s northeast bureau, wrote that on May 29, she had reported on a gunfight between security forces and “Arambai militants” in Sugnu. When she returned to her hotel in Imphal, she allegedly received many calls from purported Meiteis and also someone who claimed to be a senior official. This official “indirectly warned me about facing consequences”.
