by freespeechcollective | May 14, 2019 | Statements
Joint press statement by IWPC, Press Association, SAWM on violence on media persons in West Bengal The Indian Women’s Press Corps (IWPC), Press Association and South Asian Women in the Media (SAWM), India, condemn the several incidents of violence perpetrated on...
by freespeechcollective | May 13, 2019 | Censorship - Social Media
Janta kaReporter has been following up on a shocking story: 20 lakh missing EVMs. Based on RTI replies obtained by a Mumbai-based activist, Manoranjan Roy, the website said that the Bengaluru-based BEL and Hyderabad-based ECIL had admitted supplying nearly 40 lakh...
by freespeechcollective | May 13, 2019 | Attacks - Journalists
This season has generated a fair share of poll violence in West Bengal, but in Gujarat ? And that too, for a temple trust election! On Sunday, May 12,2019 , police roughed up cameraperson Vipul Boricha of Sandesh TV when journalists went to cover elections to the...
by freespeechcollective | May 9, 2019 | National Security - Journalists
In a trenchant order, Justices Ranjit V. More and Bharati H. Dangre, quashed the charges against Quint journalist Poonam Agarwal of abetment to suicide and of violating provisions of the Official Secrets Act (OSA). The case followed the sting operation the journalist...
by freespeechcollective | May 9, 2019 | Commentaries
The hullabaloo caused by the leaked ‘Pentagon Papers’ revealing uncomfortable truths about US’s role in the Vietnam war five decades ago, resonates with the attempts to gag the media from publishing documents related to the Rafale case in India. M.Sridhar Acharyulu...
