Indian journalist Malini Subramaniam has been conferred with the International Press Freedom Award for her reporting from the Naxal-infested Bastar area, one of the four journalists felicitated by the annual award for their commitment to the press.<br/><br/>She was honoured by the Committee to Protect Journalists along with El Salvador's Oscar Martinez and Turkey's Can Dundar. <br/><br/>Subramaniam, had reported on abuses by police and security forces, sexual violence against women, the jailing of minors, the close of school and threats against journalists in the Bastar region in Chattisgarh.