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Izikhulu zentela zaseNdiya seziphelile ukusesha kwabo okwezinsuku zonke emahhovisi eBBC eNew Delhi naseMumbai, umsakazi waseBrithani umemezele ngoLwesine. Izikhulu bezichithe izinsuku ezintathu zigasela ezikhaleni kulandela ukuvinjelwa kwezwe kwefilimu ye-BBC eyayigxeka iqhaza likaNdunankulu uNarendra Modi okusolakala ukuthi linesandla ezibhedeni ezibulalayo eminyakeni engaphezu kwengu-20 edlule.
“I-Income Tax Authorities ishiye amahhovisi ethu eDelhi naseMumbai. Sizoqhubeka nokubambisana neziphathimandla futhi sithemba ukuthi izindaba zizoxazululwa ngokushesha okukhulu, “kusho ithimba le-BBC News Press ngoLwesine, lengeza ngokuthi abanye babasebenzi bakhona “babhekane nemibuzo isikhathi eside noma kudingeke ukuthi balale ubusuku bonke – inhlalakahle yinto eza kuqala kithi.”
“I-BBC iyinhlangano yabezindaba eyethenjwayo, ezimele futhi sizoma nozakwethu nezintatheli ezizoqhubeka nokubika ngaphandle kokwesaba noma ukuchema,” kusho i-BBC.
Abasebenzi beBBC batshelwe ukuthi bangadaluli imininingwane mayelana nosesho. Abanye abasebenzi bacelwe ukuthi bahlale emahhovisi ubusuku bonke ngoLwesibili, kusho i-BBC. Kodwa amahhovisi asevuliwe ukuthi abantu bangene baphume njengoba kudingeka.
Ukusesha kuyeza cishe ngemva kwenyanga uhulumeni waseNdiya ithe ivimbele ifilimu enezingxenye ezimbili, “India: The Modi Question,” ukuthi isakazwe ezweni futhi yasebenzisa “amandla ezimo eziphuthumayo” ukuvimba iziqeshana zefilimu ukuthi zisatshalaliswe ezinkundleni zokuxhumana kuleli. I-Twitter ne-YouTube iwuthobele lo myalelo, kusho uhulumeni.
Idokhumentari ivuselela isahluko esinempikiswano kakhulu emsebenzini wezepolitiki womholi waseNdiya, lapho esengungqongqoshe omkhulu wesifunda esisentshonalanga yeGujarat ngo-2002.
UModi usolwa ngokungenzi okwanele ukuvimba udlame olunyantisayo emlandweni wangemva kwenkululeko yaseNdiya, ngesikhathi kuqubuka izibhelu phakathi kwamaHindu amaningi ombuso kanye namaSulumane amancane.
Bangaphezu kuka-1,000 abantu, iningi labo okungamaSulumane, abashonile kulolu dlame kwathi okungenani abanye abangu-220 baduka, ngokwezibalo zikahulumeni.
UModi uzichithile izinsolo zokuthi wehlulekile ukunqanda udlame. Ithimba labaphenyi eliyisipesheli elaqokwa yiNkantolo Ephakeme yase-India ngo-2012 alitholanga bufakazi obuveza ukuthi wayenecala.
Eminyakeni emibili kamuva, uModi kanye neqembu lakhe elibusayo i-Bharatiya Janata Party baqala ukubusa e-India, begibele igagasi lobuzwe lobuHindu ezweni eliyizigidigidi eziyi-1.3, lapho cishe amaphesenti angama-80 abantu belandela inkolo.
Isinyathelo sikahulumeni sokuvimba umbono we-documentary polarized in the democracy enkulu kunazo zonke emhlabeni. Abagxeki bakuchaze njengokuhlasela inkululeko yabezindaba, kuyilapho abalandeli bakaModi bezama ukumvikela.
Iqembu elikhulu eliphikisayo e-India lichaze ukuseshwa kwentela okuqhubekayo emahhovisi e-BBC “njengokuhlasela ngokunganaki” kwezindaba zaseNdiya zamahhala.
“Uma othile ezama ukuveza obala ngomlando kandunankulu, noma ukumba imininingwane yesikhathi sakhe esedlule…isikhathi samanje nekusasa laleyo ndlu yabezindaba lizocekelwa phansi yizinhlaka zakhe. Lokho kuyiqiniso,” kusho inhloko yomnyango wezindaba weqembu, uPawan Khera, etshela abezindaba ngoLwesithathu. “I-India ingumama wentando yeningi kodwa kungani undunankulu waseNdiya engubaba wokuzenzisa?”
I-BJP izamile ukuthethelela lesi sinyathelo ngokuthi akekho ezweni ongaphezu komthetho.
Ekhuluma esithangamini sabezindaba ngoLwesibili, umkhulumeli weqembu uGaurav Bhatia uthe izinkampani, okuhlanganisa nezinhlangano zabezindaba, kumele “zilandele futhi zihloniphe umthetho waseNdiya.”
“Noma ngubani, noma iyiphi inhlangano, noma eboshelwe kwabezindaba, inkampani, uma esebenza eNdiya, kumele alandele futhi ahloniphe umthetho wamaNdiya. Uma belandela umthetho, kungani-ke kufanele besabe noma bakhathazeke? Ake uMnyango Wezemali wenze umsebenzi wawo,” usho kanje.
Lokhu kugasela kudale ukwesabela ukuthi kuzocutshungulwa eNdiya, izinhlangano eziningi zabezindaba zikhiphe izitatimende ezigxeka isenzo sikahulumeni.
Manje njengoba ibalwa phakathi kweTurkey neSudan, i-India yehlele emazweni ayi-150 kwangu-180 kwiWorld Press Freedom Index yanyakenye eshicilelwe yiqembu elizinze eParis, iReporters Without Borders.
I-Press Club yaseNdiya kusho isitatimende sangoLwesibili ukuhlasela “kuzolimaza idumela nesithunzi seNdiya njengezwe elibusa ngentando yeningi elikhulu kunawo wonke emhlabeni.”
“Kuyadabukisa kakhulu njengoba lesi sigameko sakamuva sibonakala njengecala elicacile le-vendetta, eliza kungakapheli amasonto e-documentary esakazwe yi-BBC,” lisho, linxusa uhulumeni ukuthi “avimbele izinhlangano zawo ekusebenziseni kabi amandla azo ukuze zisabise. abezindaba.”
I-Reporters Without Borders (RSF) ithe ukuseshwa “kwakunazo zonke izimpawu zokuphindisela” ngokukhishwa kwencwadi kaModi, yengeza ngokuthi kwenzeka ngesikhathi “lapho abezindaba abazimele bezingelwa ngokuqhubekayo, nalapho ubandlululo luqhubeka. ukuncipha eNdiya ngenxa yokwanda kokugxilwa kwabezindaba.”
“Kubalulekile ukuthi abezindaba bamazwe ngamazwe njenge-BBC baqhubeke nokusebenza eNdiya ngaphandle kokuhlukunyezwa, nokuthi amalungelo ezintatheli, ikakhulukazi, ukugcinwa kwemfihlo kwemithombo yazo, kuhlonishwe kulolu phenyo,” yengeza le nhlangano esitatimendeni. ngoLwesine.
I-BBC ithe kunjalo “ukubambisana ngokugcwele” neziphathimandla zentela zaseNdiya nokuthi okuphumayo kanye nobuntatheli “kuqhubeka njengokujwayelekile.”
Ihhovisi lezangaphandle laseBrithani liyiqaphe ngeso lokhozi imibiko yocwaningo lwentela, kusho imithombo kahulumeni wase-UK.
– USwati Gupta eNew Delhi, noMartin Goillandeau no-Allegra Goodwin eLondon ukubika okunikele.
