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Case against Andamans Zubair Ahmad quashed

By freespeechcollective on September 10, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

The case against Andamans journalist Zubair Ahmad was quashed by Justice Shivakant Prasad of Calcutta High Court’s Circuit Bench in Port Blair , providing some sense and justice for the most absurd of the spate of cases lodged against journalists reporting on the pandemic! On April 27, 2020, […]

Citizens condemn hounding of intellectuals

By freespeechcollective on September 7, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

September 7, 2021Over 150 Citizens from all walks of life have condemned outright the hounding of intellectuals, poets and actors, both Javed Akhtar and Naseeruddin Shah. The press statement with the Text of the Statement and Details of Signatories is below.We request that this finds place in your […]

How Surveillance Erodes Democratic Rights

By freespeechcollective on August 25, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

The Pegasus revelations have struck a body blow to privacy rights of citizens. In India, the government continues to be in denial over the purchase of spyware. The Supreme Court of India is hearings petitions filed by individuals who were targeted by surveillance and by organisations working on […]

Prominent Citizens Condemn Continued Incarceration of 16 in Bhima Koregaon Case

By freespeechcollective on August 18, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

“Democracy upholds the fundamental right to life and liberty alongside the right to freedom of speech and expression, assembly, association and movement in our country. The Supreme Court of India deemed the right to privacy as integral to the right to life and personal liberty guaranteed in Article […]

India’s Deep State: Is Any Citizen Safe?

By freespeechcollective on July 31, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

Journalists, politicians and human rights activists across the world had been spied upon by their governments using a spyware tool, ‘Pegasus’, struck at the very heart of the trust imposed by citizens on the State, especially in democracies, to safeguard their personal data and privacy.

Aaj Tak Journalist Terminated Over Tweets Critical of Modi

By freespeechcollective on July 20, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Shyam Meera Singh said that ‘there is the freedom to murder and lynch but there is no freedom to criticise Modi or the current government; if there was freedom, why would he face termination? (Republished with permission from GauriLankeshNews). In an autocratic move, Aaj Tak, a Hindi-language news […]

The draft trafficking bill : A blow to free speech and privacy

By freespeechcollective on July 20, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

The Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill 2021, by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India, slated to be introduced in the upcoming session of the Parliament, is fraught with over-broad definitions, a draconian investigation process and penal provisions that defeat the very […]

Over use and misuse of sedition law

By freespeechcollective on July 6, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

Courts have once again found no substance in flimsy accusations of sedition slapped by over-zealous police, reports Anjuman Ara Begum.

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