by freespeechcollective | May 3, 2025
Highlights The first four months of 2025 have not boded well for the freedom of speech and expression in India. Censorship was rife, through direct and indirect attacks on free speech and press freedom. The Free Speech Collective’s (FSC) Tracker reveals that in the...
by freespeechcollective | Nov 11, 2024
Malini Subramaniam examines the challenges before journalists in speaking truth to power. A special focus from Free Speech Collective (FSC) as Jharkhand goes to the polls for its sixth Assembly elections since the formation of the state in 2000. The young and...
by freespeechcollective | Nov 8, 2024
As Maharashtra goes to the polls, local leaders with close ties to the ruling Shinde Shiv Sena-BJP-Ajit Pawar NCP (the Mahayuti) alliance are involved in a series of violations of freedom of expression, in the last year alone. These include the gruesome killing of...
by freespeechcollective | Oct 5, 2024
Highlights: Intimidation of journalists covering the farmers’ protests; multiple internet shutdowns to curb news of farmers protests; FIRs lodged against journalists who posted news of farmers’ protests on social media; Intimidation of journalists covering the...
by freespeechcollective | Sep 16, 2024
Introduction On Sept 18, 2024, the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) goes to the polls in three phases, the first time in a decade, and the first following the down-grading of the state in 2019. In August 2019, in the midst of an unprecedented shut down...
