by freespeechcollective | Aug 3, 2023 | Statements
RTI activists have slammed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 for its regressive amendments proposed to the RTI Act and the lack of independence and autonomy of the oversight body- the Data Protection Board. The bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha today...
by freespeechcollective | Jul 10, 2023 | Censorship - Academia
Prof Kham Khan Suan Hausing, charged with promoting enmity after his interviews in the media on the conflict in Manipur (Editor’s Note: The unrest in Manipur since early May 2023 has shown no signs of abating, with violence and tension–between the majority...
by freespeechcollective | Jun 13, 2023 | Statements
Ten members of the Foreign Correspondents Club (FCC) South Asia have resigned from their membership of the club in protest of the club president S Venkat Narayan’s three-day visit to Myanmar on the invitation of a newspaper supported by the military junta. FCC...
by freespeechcollective | Jun 2, 2023 | National Security - Journalists
The 279th report of the Law Commission has recommended the retention of sedition in Art 124A of the Indian Penal Code and has proposed that the punishment for sedition be increased to life imprisonment or for a term of upto seven years or with a fine. The report of...
by freespeechcollective | May 31, 2023 | Internet Control
In Manipur, even as the ethnic violence continues unabated, information has been a major casualty. Journalist Ninglun Hanghal, told Free Speech Collective that the scale of violence was unimaginable and the Internet shutdown has contributed to peoples’ misery as it...
