An investigative blogger from Northern Ireland has criticised the Indian government’s “censorial approach” to journalists after police made a third threat against his blog.

Dean Sterling Jones, who has run the Shooting the Messenger blog since 2016, has been made aware of a take-down order sent by Cyber Police in Mumbai against an article from 2018 on which he re-published a photoshopped image originally on Buzzfeed News (but since deleted).

Buzzfeed in 2018 deleted the image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a topless embrace with his fellow politician Rajnath Singh after receiving a defamation complaint.