The Hindu : `Stop this harassment'

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Sunday, Mar 02, 2003

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Southern States - Tamil Nadu

`Stop this harassment'

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI MARCH 1 . The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontiers) has urged the Tamil Nadu Government and police officials to stop harassing the editorial staff of Nakkheeran, Tamil bi-weekly.

The organisation believed that the executive editor and journalists were being targeted for their coverage of the activities of the forest brigand, Veerappan's gang. "The police are incapable of arresting Veerappan, so they are attacking journalists who have met him. What they are doing is dangerous and reprehensible", the general secretary, Robert Minard, wrote in a letter to the Chief Minister.

On February 22, the CID questioned Chinna Kuththoosi, an editorial writer, for nearly three hours in an attempt to know where the editor, R.R. Gopal, was hiding. No one knew the charges against the journalist other than the Government blaming him for having been in contact with Veerappan, the organisation said.

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