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Reuters tech reporter Satter sues Indian government

Raphael Satter

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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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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