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How should Meta moderate the term “shaheed”?

By freespeechcollective on April 4, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

This may seem like a no-brainer for those who know and salute the life of the 23-year-old revolutionary leader Shaheed Bhagat Singh, hanged on March 23, 1931. But for Meta’s Oversight Board, which adjudicates over content moderation decisions on Facebook and Instagram, whether to retain the word ‘shaheed’ […]

Why has the NIA arrested Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj in a ‘terror funding’ case?

By freespeechcollective on March 22, 2023 • ( 1 Comment )

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. […]

Delhi police cancels public meeting, still afraid of the “K” word!

By freespeechcollective on March 17, 2023 • ( 2 Comments )

by Geeta Seshu High irony indeed, but a public meeting on a media blackout in Kashmir was literally blacked out by Delhi police. The Campaign Against State Repression, a loose coalition of over 35 organisations representing students, workers and civil society, organised a public meeting on “Media Blackout […]

Externment notice for Aarey activist Tabrez Sayed: Mumbai police’s new censorship tool ?

By freespeechcollective on March 16, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

The externment proceedings initiated against Tabrez Ali Sayed, the well known youth activist of the Save Aarey movement, has turned into a tool of censorship, fear members of the movement. Adding to the atmosphere of intimidation, Aarey police have registered First Information Reports (FIRs) and begun investigations against […]

Siddique Kappan in Kerala,heads home

By freespeechcollective on March 14, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

In solidarity with film-makers Debalina Majumder and Shabnam Virmani

By freespeechcollective on March 6, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

More than 800 film-makers and other supporters expressed their solidarity with film-makers Debalina Majumder and Shabnam Virmani, after their films Gay India Matrimony and Had-Anhad were stopped from being screened at the Ravenshaw University in Cuttack, Odisha, last week. Initially, the university authorities scrapped the film festival, scheduled […]

New Tales in Kashmir’s New Order : The Forgotten Stories

By freespeechcollective on February 28, 2023 • ( 2 Comments )

Part II One of the biggest casualties of the administration’s massive crackdown against journalists Kashmir is that many important stories remain hidden or half-told. There are hardly an investigative stories of the disempowered, issues related to environment, global warming, climate change, gender, child rights and civil liberties. What […]

When Story-tellers Are Criminalised : New Tales in Kashmir’s New Order

By freespeechcollective on February 27, 2023 • ( 1 Comment )

Part I Jism par qaid hai jazbaat pe zanjeerein hainFikr mehboos hai guftaar pe taazerein hain (With caged bodies and chained emotionsImprisoned are our thoughts and utterances censored) This verse from Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s epic poem, Chand Roz Aur Meri Jaan, encapsulates the individual tragedy of an ordinary […]

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