by freespeechcollective | Oct 13, 2019 | Censorship - Academia, Video
An FSC report Update: The expulsion of the six students of the Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya (MGAHV) in Wardha was revoked by the administration after a public protest. In a patently absurd and excessive administrative move, six students were...
by freespeechcollective | Oct 7, 2019 | Commentaries
Venkatesh Nayak’s RTI reveals it has no papers about shutdown orders. (Republished with permission from Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative It has been more than three months since several parts of the State of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) are without access to...
by freespeechcollective | Sep 29, 2019 | Commentaries
From FSC desk (with accompanying note by Prof Vinod Pavarala): “Community Radio Stations act as essential communication channels for enhancing last mile of outreach of government.” This was the astounding claim made in a PIB press release dated Sept 13,...
by freespeechcollective | Sep 23, 2019 | Statements
This is the 50th day of the unprecedented and untenable communications blockade in Kashmir. There’s no sign that this government will be lifting it, despite the near universal condemnation from journalists’ bodies and international organisations. The...
by freespeechcollective | Sep 13, 2019 | Statements
by Meena Menon This petition(started by me) now has over 95,000 signatures. I felt that few people were speaking up against the curbs on the press in Jammu and Kashmir and when Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal , executive editor of Kashmir Times filed a petition in the Supreme...
