by freespeechcollective | Jul 14, 2025 | Attacks - Journalists
[सूचना: हिंसक लेख, चित्रे, आणि व्हिडिओ यामध्ये समाविष्ट आहे.] ४ जुलै २०२५ रोजी, पुणे जिल्ह्यातील एका गावाजवळ नदीपात्रातील बेकायदेशीर बांधकाम कामावर वार्तांकन करत असताना, पत्रकार स्नेहा बर्वे यांना दिवसाढवळ्या झालेल्या भीषण हल्ल्यात लाकडी काठीने मारहाण करण्यात आली,...
by freespeechcollective | Jul 14, 2025 | Attacks - Journalists
[Content advisory: includes images and text about violence.] In a heinous attack in broad daylight, journalist Sneha Barve was beaten with a wooden rod till she became unconscious while she was reporting on illegal construction activity in a riverbed in a town near...
by freespeechcollective | Jul 12, 2025 | Censorship
– What does the Government of Karnataka’s proposed Mis-information and Fake News (Prohibition) Bill, 2025 really spell for creativity and satire asks Sarita Ramamoorthy, The Karnataka government’s Mis-information and Fake News (Prohibition) Bill, 2025 aims to...
by freespeechcollective | Jul 11, 2025 | Censorship, Censorship - News Media, Censorship - Social Media
Predictably, the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MEITy) came up with the excuse of national security to reject requests for information on the blocking of social media accounts and digital news platforms during Operation Sindoor. In response to...
by freespeechcollective | Jul 5, 2025 | Censorship - The Arts
The CBFC stamp of film censorship: Infantilising the public Despite a firmly established judicial convention of trusting the “wisdom of the street”, administrative processes are turning towards infantilisation, says Sukumar Murlidharan, discussing the manner in which...
