India’s Increasingly Restrictive Reporting Climate

By: Jared Malsin | CJR

In 2006, Sabrina Buckwalter wrote a long investigation for the Times of India about a brutal multiple rape and murder in a village near the city of Nagpur. The story drew national media attention. Six months later, police appeared at her office to serve her with an order to leave India.

Buckwalter had dropped out of Georgia State University to pursue a career in journalism in India after falling “in love” with the country during a stint abroad there. Since her ejection in 2007, her visa applications have been denied at least four times, most recently in 2014.