by freespeechcollective | Aug 4, 2025 | Attacks - Journalists
Pune Journalist Sneha Barve Attack: A Month on, Prime Accused Still Not Arrested It is a month since journalist Sneha Barve was brutally attacked by Pandurang Morde, a local businessman with a criminal record, in Nighotwadi village in Manchar, Pune district, but...
by freespeechcollective | Jul 28, 2025 | Attacks - Journalists
Three weeks after the heinous attack on her, journalist Sneha Barve, resumed duty in her office on July 24, 2025. She was greeted by this threat: “Next time, we’ll finish this matter off for good.” The words, uttered within her earshot by Prashant Morde, son of the...
by freespeechcollective | Jul 17, 2025 | Censorship - News Media
Framing the Media: Government Policies, Law and Freedom of the Press in India* by Pamela Philipose** Two excerpts, with permission, for the Free Speech Collective From the Preface ……as I walked into the main hall that accommodated its editorial operations, there was...
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...
