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Human Rights Day, Dec 10, 2024: Stand In Solidarity with Nadeem Khan and Mohammed Zubair

December 9, 2024
On Human Rights Day on Dec 10, civil society...
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  • FSC Reports
  • Reports

In the Intense Battle for Power, Will Free Speech be a Casualty in Jharkhand?

November 11, 2024
Malini Subramaniam examines the challenges before journalists in speaking...
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  • Reports

Maharashtra: Impunity, Curbs on Public Protests and Repressive Lawfare

November 8, 2024
Major Instances of Free Speech Violations in Maharashtra 2023-24...
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  • Attacks - Journalists

Impunity Marks Journalist Sandip Mahajan’s Struggle for Justice

November 8, 2024
By Geeta Seshu When journalist Sandip Mahajan was mercilessly...
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  • FSC Reports

Censorship, Intimidation, Open Support to Convicted Religious Leaders: Haryana’s Free Speech Record in 2023-24

October 5, 2024
Highlights: Intimidation of journalists covering the farmers’ protests; multiple...
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  • Killings
  • Killings - Journalists

Haryana polls, Parole for Gurmeet Ram Rahim and appeal in his Conviction for Murder of Journalist Ram Chandra Chhattrapati

October 4, 2024
Barely four days before Haryana goes to the polls...
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  • Arrests - Others

PUCL condemns detention of Sonam Wangchuk and Ladhaki Padayatris

October 1, 2024
People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) condemns the detention...
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  • FSC Reports

Disappeared: Media Freedom in Jammu and Kashmir 2019-24 – A Status Report

September 16, 2024
Disappeared: Media Freedom in Jammu and Kashmir 2019-24 –...
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  • Statements

DUJ Condemns Attacks on Journalists, Layoffs, UP Media Policy

September 7, 2024
The Delhi Union of Journalists has issued a statement...
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  • Internet Control

Delhi HC Contempt Notice Against Wikimedia Foundation

September 6, 2024
The Delhi High Court’s contempt notice against Wikipedia started...
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  • Statements

Civil Society appeal to Kerala CM for action on Hema Committee report

September 4, 2024
“There is an urgent need for the Government of...
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  • Commentaries

French police have arrested the founder of Telegram. What happens next could change the course of big tech

August 28, 2024
by Timothy Koskie* (Republished from The Conversation )** When...
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  • Threats - Journalists

Journalist threatened for covering Badlapur alleged sexual abuse case

August 27, 2024
“Why are you reporting so much on this rape...
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  • Commentaries

ಲೈಂಗಿಕ ಹಲ್ಲೆ , ಕಾಡ್ಗಿಚ್ಚಿನಂತ ಹರಡುತ್ತಿರುವ  ವಿಡಿಯೋಗಳು : ನಿರಂತರ ಕಿರುಕುಳದ ನಿಲುಗಡೆಯ ದಾರಿ

August 11, 2024
Note: The article “Prajwal Revanna Case, Sexual Violence &...
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  • Commentaries

যৌন নিগ্রহ, ফাঁস হওয়া ভিডিও: ধারাবাহিক নির্যাতনের বিরোধিতা

August 10, 2024
Note: The article “Prajwal Revanna Case, Sexual Violence &...
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  • Commentaries

Samvidhan Hatya Divas: Theft of Peoples’ Memory of a Declared Emergency

August 2, 2024
(Editorial, PUCL Bulletin, Aug 01, 2024. Reprinted with permission)...
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  • Commentaries

Delhi HC order in Dhanya Rajendran case: of Redtagging and Malicious Propaganda Channels

July 24, 2024
Delhi High Court orders Take Down of ‘False and...
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  • Censorship - Social Media

The first FIRs Against Journalists Under the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita

July 12, 2024
The FIRs lodged against freelance journalists Zakir Ali Tyagi...
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  • Commentaries

Excerpt from Behind the Pixels: Social Silencing and Isolation of Indian Muslims in the Online Public

July 2, 2024
Bebaak Collective’s report, Behind the Pixels: Social Silencing and...
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  • FSC Reports

The New Criminal Laws and their Impact on Freedom of Expression

June 28, 2024
In what was billed as an exercise in revamping...
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  • Commentaries

Prajwal Revanna Case, Sexual Violence & Leaked Videos : Tackling the Continuing Arc of Abuse 

June 14, 2024
Former Member of Parliament Prajwal Revanna is in jail,...
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  • Commentaries

The Tyranny of the Consulting Editor

June 11, 2024
How people with limited journalistic understanding are ruling television...
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  • FSC Reports

फ्री स्पीच कलेक्टिव की रिपोर्ट : 18 वें लोकसभा चुनाव और अभिव्यक्ति की स्वतंत्रता  

May 3, 2024
जनवरी 2024 के बाद से, यानी देश के अब...
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  • FSC Reports

Crossing The Line: 18th Lok Sabha Elections and Free Speech In India

May 1, 2024 6
A Free Speech Collective Report, May 1, 2024 From...
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  • Censorship - Academia

TISS suspends Dalit scholar for alleged “anti national” activities

April 21, 2024
The prestigious Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) has...
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  • Censorship - Protests/Meetings

No place for Rani Chennamma in Uttar Pradesh!

March 22, 2024
“I Too Am Rani Chennamma”, a national campaign to...
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  • Censorship - Academia
  • Censorship - Publications

Entire Murty Classical Library editorial board dismissed!

March 5, 2024
In a shocking development, the entire editorial board of...
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  • Commentaries

Is there is a place for bans in a democracy?

March 3, 2024 2
By Manish Modi Do bans have a place in...
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A local woman guides our reporter through the alleyways of Banbhoolpura, entry into which police had barred for the media. Photo credit: Sabah Gurmat for Article-14.
  • Censorship - News Media

Field Notes: ‘Aap bhaag sakti hai na? You can run, right?’

March 3, 2024
“That reporting now needs prior permission, and is guided...
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  • Statements

“Leaving is not my choice” – Vanessa Dougnoc, French Journalist forced to leave India

February 16, 2024
“Please find below my statement. I am writing these...
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  • Censorship - Academia

Unique protest at IIT Bombay on cancellation of linguist scholar Ganesh Devy’s lecture.

February 1, 2024
Students and faculty from IIT Bombay held a unique...
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  • Censorship - News Media

GoI alleges “malicious” reporting, threatens to cancel French journalist’s OCI card

January 25, 2024
The Indian government’s over-sensitivity towards adverse global media coverage...
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  • Censorship - Social Media

Shyam Meera Singh allowed to upload video on Gurmeet Ram Rahim, with a disclaimer

January 12, 2024
In a partial victory for journalist Shyam Meera Singh,...
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  • Censorship - News Media
  • Censorship - Social Media

A Convict and The Journalist : Gurmeet Ram Rahim’s case against Shyam Meera Singh:

January 4, 2024
On Thursday, Jan 4, 2024, journalist Shyam Meera Singh...
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  • Commentaries

What’s left of the Right to Information?

December 24, 2023
With unabated attacks on users, activists fear the Right...
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  • Commentaries

Parliament coverage reduced to coverage of political jibes

December 23, 2023
With literally no serious debate and a deafening silence...
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  • Internet Control
  • Video

Kerala’s Review Bombing : “In Which Anna Gives It Those Ones”!

December 3, 2023
Film associations and certain filmmakers in Kerala are seeking...
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  • Statements

YouTube restores Media Star World Channel after DUJ appeal

November 29, 2023
Media Star World, a popular news channel on Youtube,...
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  • Commentaries

How The New Censors Muzzle A Million People!

November 27, 2023
Prabir Purkayastha, founder editor of the news portal, ‘Newsclick’,...
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  • Arrests - Journalists
  • National Security - Journalists

Bail for Journalist Fahad Shah; Sajjad Gul PSA quashed!

November 22, 2023
Finally, some justice for journalists Sajjad Gul and Fahad...
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  • FSC Reports

चुनावी राज्यों में प्रेस की स्वतंत्रता की पड़ताल

November 7, 2023
7 नवंबर से पाँच राज्यों में विधानसभा चुनाव शुरू...
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  • FSC Reports

Free Speech In The States: Between Electoral Rhetoric and Ground Reality

November 6, 2023
A Free Speech Collective Report on the health of...
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  • Commentaries

BAIL, AT LAST, BUT UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS?

August 21, 2023
The unjustified bail conditions imposed on human rights activist...
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  • Censorship - News Media

Kashmir Walla site blocked, days before Editor Fahad Shah’s bail hearing

August 20, 2023
Even as the bail application of Kashmir Walla editor...
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  • Killings - Others

PUCL on Murders by RPF Cop: Alarm Bells on hate killings

August 7, 2023
PUCL Maharashtra has come out strongly on the multiple...
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  • Statements

Digital Personal Data Protection Bill : Regressive Amendments to RTI Act

August 3, 2023
RTI activists have slammed the Digital Personal Data Protection...
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  • Censorship - Academia

The case against Prof Kham Khan Suan Hausing : Silencing academic inquiry

July 10, 2023
(Editor’s Note: The unrest in Manipur since early May...
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  • Statements

Foreign Correspondents deplore club President’s ‘Propaganda’ Tour

June 13, 2023
Ten members of the Foreign Correspondents Club (FCC) South...
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  • National Security - Journalists

Forget repeal, Law Commission enhances punishment for Sedition!

June 2, 2023
The 279th report of the Law Commission has recommended...
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  • Internet Control

Manipur Violence and Communication blockade: “The Internet shutdown disconnects you from the outside world”

May 31, 2023 2
In Manipur, even as the ethnic violence continues unabated,...
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  • Censorship - Social Media

Karnataka: New Government, Old Clampdowns?

May 22, 2023
Having just shaken off a regime that was notoriously...
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  • Commentaries

Welcome to Kashmir!

May 3, 2023
Welcome to Kashmir! The tourist paradise! What do we...
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  • Censorship - News Media

Media freedom in Kashmir after Art.370 abrogation

May 2, 2023
What is the state of media freedom in Kashmir...
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  • Commentaries

Complaints against Hate Speech in the media

April 29, 2023
Even as the Supreme Court examines the issues raised...
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  • Killings - Journalists

Maharashtra govt clamps down on peoples’ protests in the Konkan

April 26, 2023
A media blackout, a ban on television crew, externment...
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  • Arrests - Journalists
  • General - Journalists

Fahad Shah PSA case quashed, charges “mere surmise” says High Court

April 21, 2023
Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal has slammed the detention of...
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  • Censorship - Entertainment

Rapper Mungase gets interim protection from arrest

April 12, 2023
Rapper Rajesh Mungase, who faced charges of defamation and...
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  • Threats - Others

Why has Mangalore police withdrawn protection to rationalist Dr Narendra Nayak?

April 6, 2023
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat As Karnataka polls were declared...
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  • Censorship - Social Media

How should Meta moderate the term “shaheed”?

April 4, 2023
This may seem like a no-brainer for those who...
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  • Arrests - Journalists

Why has the NIA arrested Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj in a ‘terror funding’ case?

March 22, 2023
Journalist Irfan Mehraj’s pinned tweet says : There are...
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  • Censorship - News Media

Delhi police cancels public meeting, still afraid of the “K” word!

March 17, 2023 2
by Geeta Seshu High irony indeed, but a public...
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  • General - Others

Externment notice for Aarey activist Tabrez Sayed: Mumbai police’s new censorship tool ?

March 16, 2023
The externment proceedings initiated against Tabrez Ali Sayed, the...
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  • Arrests - Journalists
  • National Security - Journalists

Siddique Kappan in Kerala,heads home

March 14, 2023
Journalist Siddique Kappan arrived home in Kerala yesterday evening...
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  • Statements

In solidarity with film-makers Debalina Majumder and Shabnam Virmani

March 6, 2023
More than 800 film-makers and other supporters expressed their...
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  • Censorship - News Media

New Tales in Kashmir’s New Order : The Forgotten Stories

February 28, 2023 2
Part II One of the biggest casualties of the...
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  • Censorship - News Media

When Story-tellers Are Criminalised : New Tales in Kashmir’s New Order

February 27, 2023
Part I Jism par qaid hai jazbaat pe zanjeerein...
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  • Killings - Journalists

Case against Journalist’s alleged killer for another attack

February 10, 2023
Pandarinath Amberkar, accused in the killing of journalist Shashikant...
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  • Killings - Journalists

Didn’t give Warishe a byline as I was doubtful of the backlash, says Editor Sadashiv Kerkar

February 9, 2023
“I decided not to give him a byline for...
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  • Killings - Journalists

Murder charge on Amberkar, Land dealer who mowed down journalist

February 8, 2023
Rajapur police have arrested Pandarinath Amberkar, the land dealer...
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  • Killings - Journalists

Journalist who exposed irregularities in Barsu Refinery project mowed down

February 7, 2023 2
In a shocking incident, journalist Shashikant Warishe was mowed...
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  • Arrests - Journalists

Siddique Kappan walks out to freedom!

February 2, 2023
Finally! After 850days in custody in jails in Uttar...
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  • Censorship - News Media

What are the ‘Emergency’ powers used to block the BBC documentary on Gujarat riots and Modi?

January 21, 2023
What are the Emergency powers that have allegedly been...
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  • Other Reports

Internet shutdowns scar the economy, healthcare, and education

January 16, 2023
Excerpted from “Let the net work: SFLC.in report on...
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  • Arrests - Journalists

Bail to Manan Dar, court says allegations of terror do not appear to be “cogent and true.”

January 5, 2023 2
Manan Dar, photojournalist from Kashmir, has secured bail after...
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  • Commentaries

#EndImpunity

November 2, 2022
The UN-observed International Day to End Impunity for Crimes...
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  • Other Reports

Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal findings: A continued impunity

November 1, 2022
On the occasion of the International Day to End...
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  • Other Reports

Delhi Violence: Sections of Media Propagate Hateful Narratives

October 9, 2022
“Uncertain Justice: A Citizens Committee Report on the North...
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  • Other Reports

UAPA used to ‘Persecute by Prosecution’ – PUCL

October 3, 2022
UAPA: Criminalising Dissent and State Terror – Study of...
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  • Arrests - Journalists

Fahad Shah and the saga of revolving door arrests

September 20, 2022 3
An FSC focus on journalists in custody . Time...
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  • Arrests - Journalists

Kappan…still in jail!

September 19, 2022
More delay in the release of journalist Siddique Kappan!...
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  • Arrests - Journalists
  • National Security - Journalists

Kappan to stay in jail…for another day!

September 12, 2022
Journalist Siddique Kappan was produced before the National Investigation...
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  • Arrests - Journalists
  • National Security - Journalists

CJI Lalit, granting bail to Siddique Kappan :”Every person has the right to free expression.”

September 9, 2022
The Chief Justice of India UU Lalit asked a...
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  • Internet Control

SC admits SFLC petition challenging internet shutdowns to ‘prevent’ exam cheating

September 9, 2022
The Supreme Court of India issued notice to the...
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  • Arrests - Journalists
  • National Security - Journalists

Kappan bail plea posted on Sept 9 for final disposal

August 29, 2022
The Supreme Court has posted the bail application filed...
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  • National Security - Journalists

Kappan bail plea before SC

August 26, 2022
Journalist Siddique Kappan moved a special leave petition before...
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Salman Rushdie now...and in a 1983 interview with John Pilger (images courtesy: salmanrushdie.com)
  • Statements

IMSD Statement on Salman Rushdie : Break the Silence on Blasphemy

August 24, 2022
It is unfortunate that despite living in a...
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books being burnt
  • Commentaries

From Book Banning to Book Burning

August 21, 2022
This article has been republished with permission. Today’s censorship...
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  • Arrests - Journalists

Freedom, in the words of a jailed journalist’s daughter

August 15, 2022
“Greetings Dear Audience, Happy Independence Day from my heart...
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  • National Security - Journalists

“Deeply disappointed, but I still hope for justice from Supreme Court” -Raihanth Kappan

August 4, 2022
After more than 22 months in prison for merely...
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  • Arrests - Journalists

Jharkhand Police Arrest Independent Journalist Rupesh Kumar Singh

July 18, 2022
His latest report was on the impact of smoke...
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  • Censorship - News Media

Mohd. Zubair Bail Order:Free Speech Foundation of A Democracy.

July 15, 2022
Additional Sessions Judge Devendra Kumar Jangala of the Delhi...
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  • Killings - Journalists

Gauri Lankesh: Chronicle of a murder foretold

October 31, 2018 2
On Sept 5, 2022, five years after Gauri Lankesh...
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  • Censorship
  • Censorship - Protests/Meetings

RSS activists object to statement of solidarity to Palestine, force cancellation of Udapur Film Festival

November 18, 2024
In a shocking instance of blatant muscle and might,...
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  • Attacks

Judge orders FIR Against MLA for Assault on Journalist Sandip Mahajan

November 14, 2024
Justice Sharad R Pawar of the District and Sessions...
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