Journalist attacks

Attacks on Journalists

Jammu & Kashmir, Assam and Odisha reported the highest incidents of conflicts involving journalists in the last five years.

Rajasthan, Gujarat, Mizoram and Nagaland reported  the lowest instances of attacks on journalists.

In Sikkim and Ladakh there were no incidents of attacks on journalists. 

There were 674 reported instances of conflicts involving journalists in India from January 2016 to July 2021 according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). 

These attacks were spread across 273 districts in the country. The ACLED dataset sourced these conflicts from reports from 117 different organizations.

The interactive map below provides  information about the number of incidents of attacks on journalists in each state .

3 thoughts on “Journalist attacks”

  1. Chitralekha Agrawal

    I liked the way Data has been presented through interactive map. Symbolic as it goes from lighter to darker shades.

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