by freespeechcollective | Dec 18, 2025 | Statements
Press Statement by The Wire New Delhi, December 18, 2025 On the evening of Wednesday, December 17, 2025, police officers from Budgam, Jammu and Kashmir, arrived at the Chrar I Sharief home of senior journalist Jehangir Ali, The Wire’s long-time Jammu and Kashmir...
by freespeechcollective | Dec 16, 2025 | Policies/Regulations
A month after the Central Government notified Rules to The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 (scroll to the bottom to read the FSC note for more on the DPDP Act), marking the full functionality of the law, the threat to transparency in governance and...
by freespeechcollective | Dec 10, 2025 | Defamation Cases - Journalists
The Delhi High Court has quashed the defamation case against journalist Nilanjana Bhowmick and maintained that factually correct statements cannot be termed defamatory. The journalist, then bureau chief of Time magazine, had published an article entitled...
by freespeechcollective | Nov 26, 2025 | Commentaries
The November 10 bomb blast in Delhi’s Red Fort area spawned a media blitz focusing on Kashmir, as headlines in ‘national” media screamed “terror doctors”; closely followed by the raid on the office of the Kashmir Times in Jammu. But for the media in the Valley, facing...
by freespeechcollective | Nov 20, 2025 | Statements
SIA Raids: Another Attempt to Silence Us ‘Kashmir Times’ statement following reported raids by State Investigative Agency (SIA) on its office (Reprinted from Kashmir Times.) The reported raids on our office, the baseless accusations of activities “inimical to...