International Press Freedom Award for Indian

Indian journalist Malini Subramaniam has been conferred with the International Press Freedom Award for her reporting from the Naxal-infested Bastar area. A contributor to the news website Scroll, she has reported on abuses by security forces, sexual violence against women, the jailing of minors, the shutdown of schools, extrajudicial killings, and threats to journalists in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, the citation said.