by freespeechcollective | Apr 25, 2019 | Commentaries
Reprinted from Mainstream Weekly By Amitava Mukherjee POLITICAL NOTEBOOK The ongoing 17th general elections in India have already proved two points conclusively. First, the quality of the political leadership in the country has abysmally gone down. Secondly, democracy...
by freespeechcollective | Apr 19, 2019 | Attacks - Journalists
From Kashmir Reader: SRINAGAR: Kashmir Reader correspondent was assaulted by a mob while covering polling in Srinagar parliamentary constituency on Thursday at a polling booth -91 Sultan Mohalla, Mir Behri, Bud Dal. Correspondent Junaid Bazaz said the booth had been...
by freespeechcollective | Apr 18, 2019 | National Security - Journalists
The Bombay High Court has quashed a case against Quint journalist Poonam Agarwal and Kargil war veteran Deepchand, charged with spying under the Official Secrets Act and abetment to suicide after her sting on the ‘sahayak’ system published in February...
by freespeechcollective | Apr 10, 2019 | Arrests - Journalists
Kishorechandra Wangkhem addressing the press after his release from jail, more than four months after being detained under the draconian National Security Act on orders of the Manipur government for making allegedly abusive posts on Facebook. Here he is seen with his...
by freespeechcollective | Apr 8, 2019 | Arrests - Journalists
Justice L S Jamir of the Manipur High Court maintained that police had failed to furnish CDs of video clips and pictures with captions, because of which journalist Kishorechandra Wagkhem was unable to make an effective representation against the detention order...