Rajen Deka’s news item in Dainik Asom, an Assamese daily last Thursday morning about a skirmish between BJP and Congress workers during the third phase of Lok Sabha elections left many in the saffron party angry. The news item highlighted how security forces prevented an alleged plan of […]
A Free Speech Collective focus for World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2019 The media community in the Kashmir Valley has witnessed a year of intense turmoil. Barely a month after World Press Freedom Day on May 3, 2018, senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari was gunned down in the […]
Reprinted from Mainstream Weekly By Amitava Mukherjee POLITICAL NOTEBOOK The ongoing 17th general elections in India have already proved two points conclusively. First, the quality of the political leadership in the country has abysmally gone down. Secondly, democracy in India is now under peril. For every right thinking […]
From Kashmir Reader: SRINAGAR: Kashmir Reader correspondent was assaulted by a mob while covering polling in Srinagar parliamentary constituency on Thursday at a polling booth -91 Sultan Mohalla, Mir Behri, Bud Dal. Correspondent Junaid Bazaz said the booth had been overtaken by polling agents and supporters of a […]
The Bombay High Court has quashed a case against Quint journalist Poonam Agarwal and Kargil war veteran Deepchand, charged with spying under the Official Secrets Act and abetment to suicide after her sting on the ‘sahayak’ system published in February 2017. The bench, comprising Justices Ranjit More and […]
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 lawyer, S.Chittaranjan, human rights activist Babloo […]
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 slapped on him under the draconian National […]
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 the Indian Penal […]
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