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...
by freespeechcollective | May 5, 2019 | Censorship - News Media, Censorship - Publications
by Geeta Seshu As Pulwama and other constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir go into the final phase of polling for the parliamentary elections on May 6, 2019, one of the Valley’s major English dailies is minus its brilliant cartoonist. “It’s really, really tough. The...
by freespeechcollective | May 3, 2019 | Censorship
बस्तर की पत्रकारिता का सच : इधर कुंआ उधर खाई Watch this special report from Bhumkal Samachar on the perils of reporting in Bastar. (with permission from Bhumkal Samachar) [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-x5IzHAuCc&w=560&h=315] आज विश्व प्रेस...
by freespeechcollective | May 3, 2019 | Commentaries
Excerpted from the India chapter of ‘Truth vs Misinformation: The collective push back’ South Asia Press Freedom Report 2018-2019, released by UNESCO on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day May 3, 2019 LITIGATION OVERLOAD The thicket of litigation that...
