New Delhi: Over October 10 and 11, the Delhi Police detained journalists from across mainstream and independent media as they attempted to cover protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.Journalists covering the demonstrations were stopped, dragged by the police and shoved into buses and taken to holding locations including Chhatrasal Stadium, regardless of whether they displayed press cards. This, despite the Supreme Court saying on October 11 that journalists cannot be stopped from working.Most said they spoke to police about being members of the press but were repeatedly ignored.Reporters Without Borders has noted that at least 16 journalists were detained on October 10 alone, with around a dozen more detained the following day. The Wire is maintaining a list of named journalists detained across both days, October 10 and 11, 2026. The list is compiled on the basis of social media posts and will be updated.Harsh Yadav (independent journalist)Yadav was purportedly detained on October 10 and it is not known if he has been released. AISA national president Neha Bora has posted on X noting that the Delhi Police has made “a journalist disappear, and his whereabouts have been unknown for over 48 hours.”Ayush Tiwari (Scroll.in)Tiwari was detained near the BJP office on Deen Dayal Upadhyay Road while covering the protests on October 10.Shoaib Daniyal (Scroll.in)Daniyal was picked up in a South Delhi neighbourhood while waiting for a taxi, approximately 20 kilometres from Jantar Mantar. He was not covering the protests at all.Anushka Bhardwaj (Business Standard)Bhardwaj, according to accounts, was initially released after showing her press identity card on October 10, then detained by the same officers.Ashwine Kumar Singh, Astha Savyasachi, Anmol Pritam, and AnshuAll four are journalists from Newslaundry and were detained on October 10. The phones of Anmol and Anshu were seized. Ashwine’s phone was also snatched.Watch: How Delhi Police detained Me & My Team.During the massive Delhi Police crackdown against the CJP protest on Saturday, multiple journalists were detained.Despite displaying our Press IDs, the police detained me, our producer, and two other reporters from @newslaundry , @AshwineSingh and @SavyasachiAstha— Anmol Pritam (@anmolpritamND) October 11, 2026Saurabh Sharma (Reuters):Detained near INA Market on October 10. Hritik Joshi and Rahul Charas (Navbharat Times)Detained while shooting videos of the protests on October 10. Navbharat Times editor Ashish Pandey wrote on X that cops misbehaved with Rahul too. “Our team was carrying clear and visible media i-cards,” he wrote.Jagriti Trisha (BoomLive)Detained on October 10. Released after three hours, far away from the location from where she was picked up.Shivang Shukla (India Today): Was pushed into a bus while repeatedly identifying himself as an India Today journalist.Neeraj Jha (Molitics India)Paranjoy Guha Thakurta (independent senior journalist) Sarthak (The Quint)Detained on October 10.Pragya Mishra (Bharat Samachar) Kinjal (AltNews)Detained by plain-clothes police in Ahmedabad at around 8 pm and taken to Sarkhej police station with 22 others. Held for over three hours and released around 9:30 pm.She was quoted as having said: “A police officer in plain clothes told a woman police officer to check my ID card. I complied, but I also asked them why they were in civil clothes, and why so many police officers were in civil clothes. After this, they moved ahead a little, and then they sent over two or three women officers to me and said, ‘Hold her and make her sit down.’ Those officers didn’t listen to anything I said. They just held my hand and put me in the van. I kept trying to reason with them and told them I am a media person, but they did not listen.”Divya Aslesha (Scroll): Detained at Shaniwar Wada of Pune at around 3:30 pm on October 10 and taken to Lashkar police station, four kilometres away. Police later told her the detention was a “mistake.”She was detained despite telling the police multiple times that she was a reporter and even showing her press card, Scroll noted.Shashwat, Siya, and Vijay (Indian Express Hindi)All detained at Connaught Place on October 11 and were released approximately 45 minutes later. Vedanta Agarwal and Sara Khan (Peek TV)Dragged and detained by Delhi Police while covering protester detentions at Connaught Place on October 11.Nidhi Suresh (independent journalist)Newsminute founder Dhanya Rajendran wrote that Suresh was detained at around 3 pm on November 11, in the same van as AISA national president Neha Bora.Ashish Singh (Hindustan Times)Detained at RK Ashram Marg on October 11.M. Rajshekhar (independent journalist)Detained on October 11, purportedly taken to Pandwalan Khurd, where other detainees noted brutal beatings and mistreatment by police.Shyam Meera Singh (independent journalist)Detained at Connaught Place on October 11, Singh’s X account has been withheld now. Singh has been broadcasting short form videos of the protests regularly.Journalist @ShyamMeeraSingh explains , what happened and why he was detained .Watch how delhi police treated journalists Shyam Meera Singh when he requested protection . https://t.co/CfpcFuL4A5— Gurpreet Garry Walia (@garrywalia_) October 11, 2026Singh has reported seeing members of the Hindu Raksha Dal wearing Muslim-style caps while beating a man.Shameful what @ShyamMeeraSingh and other journalists have been subjected to!Not just shameful it is CONTEMPT OF COURT!— Neha (@neha_aisa) October 12, 2026Nitin Katiyar (Nayab World)Detained near Connaught Place, he alleged that was punched in the eyes after showing press credentials.Unnamed journalist (allegedly from The Hindu)The Hindu’s journalist was detained from Connaught Place till police personnel realised she was a reporter with TH and released her before the bus moved.#CJPProtests https://t.co/NvoPDn6APG— Hemani Bhandari (@HemaniBhandari) October 11, 2026Ryan Thomas (Caravan)The Delhi Police detained and brutally beat up The Caravan’s assistant multimedia producer, Ryan Thomas, on October 11, the magazine said.Roshni Rajan and Farza TM (Reporter TV)The Malayalam news channel has said, according to a Newsminute report, that two of its women journalists were dragged away by the police while covering the agitations.Sachin (Asianet News)Sachin was detained on October 11 at Connaught Place.V.S. Rahul and Suhail Mohammad (News 24, Malayalam)The two were forcibly put into police vehicles on October 11 and released hours later.