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...
by freespeechcollective | Apr 1, 2019 | General - Journalists
by Geeta Seshu The disposal of the case against Avadhnama editor Shirin Dalvi, accused of hurting religious sentiments after the publication of a cover of the French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, underlies, yet again, how the process itself becomes the punishment. The case...
by freespeechcollective | Mar 31, 2019 | Censorship - News Media
A video of Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah sharing candid moments with his granddaughter went viral on social media. To the amusement of social media users, Amit Shah was seen trying to make his granddaughter wear a BJP cap while she kept removing it from her...
by freespeechcollective | Mar 31, 2019 | Censorship - News Media
Tejasvi Surya named 49 media houses as defendants in his suit filed before the civil judge. The publications named include The Times of India, The Hindu and Deccan Herald, among English publications, and Kannada newspapers like Prajavani, Kannada Prabha, Vijaya...
by freespeechcollective | Mar 26, 2019 | Censorship - News Media
Kailash Pandey, Nainital’s CPI (M-L) candidate for the Lok Sabha polls has complained to the Chief Electoral Officer that the nodal officer of the Model Code Monitoring Committee (MCMC) has disallowed pamphlets criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The latter...
