by freespeechcollective | Jun 1, 2019 | Statements
Srinagar: Kashmir Journalist Association (KJA) has strongly condemned the assault on a journalist Kaiser Andrabi in police station Fateh Kadal on Friday. According to Kaiser, policemen slapped, kicked and hit him multiple times with a baton and gun butt inside police...
by freespeechcollective | May 20, 2019 | Commentaries
Privacy is a free speech issue and the media needs to get it right,more so if they report on minor victims of sexual violence. Moazum Mohammad reports on the order by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. Ordering YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to remove content which...
by freespeechcollective | May 15, 2019 | Censorship - Social Media
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed bail to Priyanka Sharma, the BJP youth wing worker who had circulated a morphed photograph of Priyanka Chopra with Mamata Banerjee’s head on it, but asked her to apologise in writing after her release. The vacation bench of...
by freespeechcollective | May 15, 2019 | Attacks - Journalists
With the last phase of polling, tempers are at their highest. A quick snapshot of the worst of the verbal diarrhoea unleashed on voters, rival candidates and of course…the media! I will hit you: Furious Mani Shankar Aiyar threatens journalist Stirring up a fresh...
by freespeechcollective | May 14, 2019 | Statements
Joint press statement by IWPC, Press Association, SAWM on violence on media persons in West Bengal The Indian Women’s Press Corps (IWPC), Press Association and South Asian Women in the Media (SAWM), India, condemn the several incidents of violence perpetrated on...
