RSS workers arrested for attack on photojournalist

IN Media Watch Briefs | 05/05/2018

The Week reports that two RSS workers were arrested by Kerala police on Friday for attacking a photojournalist inside the Malappuram Press Club. The police had earlier registered a case against 10 RSS activists over the attack. Fouad, a photographer with the Malayalam daily Chandrika, was attacked when he took photographs of a few RSS workers intercepting a biker who was caught in a protest rally organised by the right-wing outfit in the district on Thursday. The attack took place on World Press Freedom Day.

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