by freespeechcollective | Sep 26, 2025 | Attacks - Others
Strong protests by environmental groups but is the government listening, asks Avertino Miranda The brutal assault on tribal leader and social activist, Rama Kankonkar, on September 18 has shocked and angered environmental groups in Goa. The attack triggered massive...
by freespeechcollective | Sep 9, 2025 | Defamation Cases - Journalists, Lawfare
The Bombay High Court granted the transfer of the hearing in a defamation case hearing in a trial court located in proximity with the headquarters of the radical hindutva organisation, the Sanathan Sanstha from Ponda in Goa to Kolhapur in Maharashtra, stating that the...
by freespeechcollective | Sep 7, 2025 | Censorship, Commentaries
[Update on the 8 September 2025 protest action called by Gen Z in Nepal here.] On Thursday, 4 September 2025, Nepal government blocked 26 social media platforms for failing to register with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MoCIT). The ban...
by freespeechcollective | Sep 5, 2025 | Killings - Journalists
Eight years ago, at about 7.45 pm on September 5, 2017, senior journalist Gauri Lankesh, editor of Gauri Lankesh Patrike was shot dead at point blank range as she was entering her home in Bengaluru. An outspoken critic of right-wing extremism, she minced no words in...
by freespeechcollective | Sep 2, 2025 | Censorship, Censorship - Academia
From disappearing Instrument of Accession to book ban, Kashmiris struggle to find a language to preserve memory Republished with permission from Kashmir Times The stage is set, and the carpets rolled. On August 2, 2025, on the banks of world-famous Dal Lake, thousands...
