Arrests – Journalists

On 11 April 2025, on the 1000th day of the incarceration of Jharkhand based freelance journalist Rupesh Kumar Singh under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, more than a hundred journalists, academics, social workers, students and other citizens sent an open letter to the Chief Justice of India seeking his release. Rupesh Kumar Singh’s […] Read More
Only two journalists freed of UAPA charges, one with an acquittal and the other, a discharge. The number of journalists charged under draconian laws is an indication of the perilous state of free speech in India. From 2010 till date, we have 15 journalists and two media managerial executives charged under The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) […] Read More
Finally, some justice for journalists Sajjad Gul and Fahad Shah, both in jail from January 16 and February 4, 2022 respectively. While bail was granted to “The Kashmirwalla” Editor Fahad Shah, charged under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA),1967, for an article published by his news portal eleven years ago, Gul’s detention order under the […] Read More
Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal has slammed the detention of Kashmir Walla editor Fahad Shah under the draconian Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA), 1978 as a deprivation of his constitutional and legal rights. Shah was arrested on February 4, 2022 and has faced terror charges in multiple cases for reports on the news portal […] Read More
Journalist Irfan Mehraj’s pinned tweet says : There are hundreds of Kashmiri Pandit families who never left #Kashmir. My story with@khalidHkhan_looks at their experiences in conflict-marred Valley, and how they have survived amid controversy sparked by #KashmirFiles.” The article had appeared in Al Jazeera on May 6, 2022. Another tweet is about an article entitled […] Read More
Journalist Siddique Kappan arrived home in Kerala yesterday evening after more than twoyears in a UP jail under a UAPA case registered by the UP police. He was accompanied by his wife Raihanath Kappan and D Dhanasumod, secretary of the KUWJ Delhi unit on his flight back home from Delhi. He was received by members […] Read More
More delay in the release of journalist Siddique Kappan! The bail application in the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) case came up today and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed its response to the bail application and sought an adjournment as Additional Solicitor General SV Raju was to appear in the matter. The case is […] Read More
The Chief Justice of India UU Lalit asked a pertinent question about journalist Siddique Kappan, currently incarcerated in Lucknow jail on terror charges, one that should apply to all cases of journalists wrongly arrested for pursuing their professional work : Kappan, who was picked up by Uttar Pradesh police on October 5, 2020, while travelling […] Read More
The Supreme Court has posted the bail application filed by journalist Siddique Kappan for final disposal on September 9, 2022. The apex court issued notice on the petition filed by Kappan, challenging the rejection of his bail application by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Aug 2. The bench comprised Chief Justice […] Read More
“Greetings Dear Audience, Happy Independence Day from my heart to all. I am daughter of Siddique Kappan, journalist put inside a dark cell violating all freedom of a citizen….” Journalist Siddique Kappan’s nine-year old daughter, Mehnaz, gave a moving speech on the meaning of freedom on the occasion of India’s 75th Independence Day celebrations in […] Read More
The judgement of the Supreme Court granting bail to the AltNews co-founder, Mohammed Zubair, delivered by Justice Dr Dhananjaya Chandrachud on July 22, 2022, reinforced the freedom of expression of journalists, besides affirming the right of citizens to bail and a curb on the the punishing process of being charged in multiple cases across different […] Read More
Four journalists covering the Agnipath protests in Patna were detained by police after one of them, Amir Hamza, was roughed up and shoved by a police officer. Hamza, a journalist working with a newschannel on Youtube ‘The Activist’, was arrested and is yet to get bail. Of the four, Hamza was kept in the Kotwali […] Read More
PRESS STATEMENT March 21st, 2022 The Editors Guild of India is shocked by the manner in which an Agra based journalist, Gaurav Bansal, was arrested and allegedly tortured for reporting about electoral malpractices in the recent assembly elections. While on one hand the journalist’s lawyer has alleged that, “he was given third degree torture and […] Read More
The Siddique Kappan Solidarity Committee launched a campaign for the release of the jailed journalist, who was arrested by Uttar Pradesh police and charged under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, when he was on his way to Hathras village to cover the gang-rape and fatal assault on a young woman. Kappan and his associates […] Read More

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