by freespeechcollective | Mar 26, 2019 | Censorship - News Media
Kailash Pandey, Nainital’s CPI (M-L) candidate for the Lok Sabha polls has complained to the Chief Electoral Officer that the nodal officer of the Model Code Monitoring Committee (MCMC) has disallowed pamphlets criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The latter...
by freespeechcollective | Mar 25, 2019 | Commentaries
A once-professionally managed journalists’ agency is slowly but surely being nailed to the ground. Read this account from Hardev Sanotra: In many ways, the agency is now being used regularly to further the narrow agenda of an industrialist and there is no one to...
by freespeechcollective | Mar 22, 2019 | Killings - Journalists
On February 19, 1990, Lassa Kaul, director of the government-owned Doordarshan television station, was shot dead by militants in Bemina area of Srinagar. The killing prompted the station’s closure for three-years. On March 1, 1990, P N. Handoo, Assistant Director of...
by freespeechcollective | Mar 21, 2019 | Censorship - Social Media
“I uploaded a video of a song which was anti Modi and anti-BJP and within half an hour, I got a message that it was taken down. So fast, I just put it up and they took it down,” says Rajesh Shah, an advertising professional. Shah got a message that the...
by freespeechcollective | Mar 21, 2019 | Arrests - Journalists
The detention of individuals under the NSA are in contravention of the right to due process and a fair trial, says Elina Steinerte Vice-Chair of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right...
