by freespeechcollective | Dec 23, 2025
A Free Speech Collective Report, December 2025 The ominous start to 2025, with the reported disappearance of journalist Mukesh Chandrakar days after he reported on the poor quality of road construction and the chilling discovery of his body in a septic tank in Bastar...
by freespeechcollective | Nov 5, 2025
As Bihar goes to the polls, the last five years have been marked with assaults on journalists, with six killings and eleven instances of attacks. The general climate for free speech has also been affected by detention and arrest of journalists and threats to editors...
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...
