by freespeechcollective | Apr 10, 2019 | Arrests - Journalists
Kishorechandra Wangkhem addressing the press after his release from jail, more than four months after being detained under the draconian National Security Act on orders of the Manipur government for making allegedly abusive posts on Facebook. Here he is seen with his...
by freespeechcollective | Apr 8, 2019 | Arrests - Journalists
Justice L S Jamir of the Manipur High Court maintained that police had failed to furnish CDs of video clips and pictures with captions, because of which journalist Kishorechandra Wagkhem was unable to make an effective representation against the detention order...
by freespeechcollective | Apr 8, 2019 | Commentaries
By Lara Jesani Election fervor has gripped the country and political parties across the board are busy making election promises to lure voters. The latest to hit the news and become a campaign agenda, is the draconian colonial era sedition law under Section 124A of...
by freespeechcollective | Apr 5, 2019 | Censorship - Social Media
Facebook removed Pages, Groups and accounts for violating Facebook’s policies on coordinated inauthentic behavior or spam. In its blog, it has detailed four separate takedowns. Here’s what the post by Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Cybersecurity Policy, said: We...
by freespeechcollective | Apr 3, 2019 | Censorship - Publications
Team that tried to stop event in Chennai taken off duty A few hours after an election flying squad in Chennai served a letter banning the release of a book on the Rafale fighter aircraft scam, the publishing house managed to launch the book by obtaining the nod from...
