More than a hundred individuals and members of organisations, includingstudents, womens’ rights activists, academics, lawyers, researchers, film-makers,theatre makers, etc, have lodged a strong protest against the Mumbai policenotice to demand a surety of Rs 50 lakhs from student and anti-case culturalactivist Suvarna Salve. The have demanded that this […]
I have gone through the judgment of this Hon’ble Court. I am pained that I have been held guilty of committing contempt of the Court whose majesty I have tried to uphold — not as a courtier or cheerleader but as a humble guard – for over three […]
Republished from the IFJ Blog As Kashmir locks down yet again – this time to contain the coronavirus pandemic – access to the internet can be a matter of life and death, quite literally. Dr Suhail Naik makes a compelling case for restoration of communication facilities to the […]
What is the legal basis for drone surveillance and videographing of protestors, asks Geeta Seshu On January 1, 2020, Delhi police officers recorded a video of an activist participating in the anti-CAA protest rally by women of Seelampur in North-East Delhi. The police officer recorded the exchange between […]
An FSC report Update: The expulsion of the six students of the Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya (MGAHV) in Wardha was revoked by the administration after a public protest. In a patently absurd and excessive administrative move, six students were expelled by the Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya […]
The Free Speech Collective is deeply concerned at the deafening silence from the Kashmir Valley, which has been incommunicado since August 4, 2019, a day before the cataclysmic decision to revoke Article 370 and 35A of the Constitution of India was implemented and the state downsized into two […]
Privacy is a free speech issue and the media needs to get it right,more so if they report on minor victims of sexual violence. Moazum Mohammad reports on the order by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. Ordering YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to remove content which might reveal […]
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 self-censorship we impose on […]
