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...
by freespeechcollective | Aug 15, 2025 | Censorship - Publications, Statements
A comprehensive statement from the civil liberties organisation on the ban of 25 books by the Jammu and Kashmir government. Republished with permission Aug 12, 2025 Withdraw the forfeiture notification on 25 books on Jammu and Kashmir Repeal Section 152 of the BNS...
by freespeechcollective | Aug 9, 2025 | Censorship - Publications
By Geeta Seshu The Jammu and Kashmir (J & K) government’s ban on 25 books on Kashmir by both Kashmiri and non-Kashmiri academics, researchers and journalists on the specious grounds that they promote terrorism and endanger national integrity, among other charges,...
