Reuters tech reporter Raphael Satter has sued the Indian government after his Indian overseas citizenship was cancelled, after he reported and wrote a story critical of a prominent Indian businessman.
Hannah Ellis-Petersen of The Guardian writes, “Satter, who works in Washington DC, denies ever conducting journalism in India and has only travelled to the country to visit family.
“The Indian government provided no specifics to Satter’s lawyers on how his journalistic work had been deemed a national security threat to India. However, Satter’s lawyers noted that the cancellation of his OCI came at exactly the same time that a defamation case had been filed against him in India for a story he had written on the Indian cybersecurity company Appin and its co-founder Rajat Khare.
“Satter’s investigation for Reuters, titled ‘How an Indian startup hacked the world,’ exposed the workings of Appin, alleging it had become ‘a hack-for-hire powerhouse that stole secrets from executives, politicians, military officials and wealthy elites around the globe.”
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