Stop Curtailing Media Freedom, Says DUJ
The Delhi Union of Journalists is deeply concerned at recent developments in the media space that seek to curtail our right to free expression and our right to earn our…
Freedom of Expression
Not just an issue of freedom of speech-Jail is easy but bail is difficult
This is not just an issue of freedom of speech and expression. New criminal law-related serious offenses, can harass journalists. Jail is simple, while bail is almost impossible, especially when…
Freedom cannot even laugh in India!
At the height of the emergency in 1975-77 under Indira Gandhi,the country had to cope with dangerous political suppression. You were imprisoned for opposing the government or writing against it.…
PUCL condemns the targeting of comedian Kunal Kamra and the vandalism by Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) at The Habitat, Mumbai!
Political satire is a constitutional right! ****** Punitive and Arbitrary demolitions as a form of punishment are an unconstitutional attempt to strangulate free speech ******* India is not an eggshell…
Freedom of Speech: Not So Free – Kunal Kamra’s Joke Sparks Shiv Sena Backlash
Introduction Freedom of speech in India has always been a contested issue. The recent controversy surrounding stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra’s satirical song targeting former Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has…
Kunal Kamra Satire and Shinde Shiv Sena Reaction
The recent controversy surrounding Kunal Kamra's YouTube video and the subsequent vandalism of Mumbai Habitat’s Comedy Club by members of Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena has reignited debates…
Citizens Unite to Condemn Urban Terrorism Attack on Kunal Kamra
We, the Citizens of India, strongly condemn the terror tactics and vandalism being displayed by Party ‘Leaders’ of the ruling alliance in the Maharashtra. We accept that these people lack…
After Mr Modi’s speech,Tara Bhawalkar spoke eloquently on freedom on the same platform
Soon after Prime Minister Modi inaugurated the 98th Marathi sahitya sammelan in New Delhi last week, the sammelan president Tara Bhawalkar delivered an eloquent speech stressing the importance of freedom…
Writers and Book lovers Protest Against the Fascist Attack on Books in Tirupati
Various types of books fluttered like flags in the hands of poets, writers, and book-lovers in protest against the attack on a book exhibition in Tirupati by religious extremists. The…
Hyderabad Book Fair incident: Saffron policing on what books to sell and read
The period following 2014 has seen an increase in saffron policing with their attempts to control what to eat, clothes to wear, where to pray, decisions related to marriage among…
CPIML Strongly Condemns RSS Hooliganism at Udaipur Film Festival
The CPIML unequivocally condemns the cowardly disruption by RSS goons of the screening of Had Anhad at the Udaipur Film Festival. This brazen attack on democratic spaces and progressive art…
The Show Must Go On – The 9th Udaipur Film Festival Forcefully Halted
Shabnam Virmani’s Film Had Anhad Based on Kabir’s Songs Stopped Mid Screening On the second day of 9th Udaipur Film Festival, due to pressure and terrorizing of RSS activists, the…
Threats to Free Expression in the Trump Era
I thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the international magazine Index on Censorship. I wrote a book, Outspoken: Free Speech Stories, about…
In the Intense Battle for Power, Will Free Speech be a Casualty in Jharkhand?
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…
Freedom of Press: Restrictions on Access to Watch BBC Documentary
It's an interesting situation, freedom of the press restricts him from watching a documentary. It is difficult to read and understand a mysterious law, a majority of MPs, the power goes…
Disappeared: Media Freedom-A Status Report of Five Years of Free Speech In Jammu and Kashmir 2019-24
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…
Media gagged in AP: A fascist trend that was barely noticed, and a feature of Undeclared Emergency
A written complaint on blocking select Telugu TV news channels by ruling TDP circles was made to TRAI by YSRCP MP, but no action was taken. ThenDelhi High Court was…
The Mere Anarchy of Law
India that is more Bharat these days is a democracy,which proclaims to the whole world that unlike socialist dictatorships is ruled by law.It has become quite difficult to understand what…
Exploring the boundaries of ‘Freedom of Expression’
Approximately 6 billion people, constituting about 85% of the global population, associate themselves with a religious belief. Take a moment to ponder over the consequences if people start burning each…
Freedom of Speech in Modi’s India: Beyond Jack Dorsey’s Revelations
Former Twitter co-founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey, claimed that India had threatened to shut down the micro-blogging site unless it complied with government orders. The ex-CEO revealed this on the…
The US Censors Dissenting Voices: On the Attacks Against the Midwestern Marx Institute
by Edward Liger Smith, Carlos L. Garrido, and Noah Khrachvik The First Amendment of the United States Constitution says that “Congress shall make no law… Abridging the freedom of…
Censorship Of Stan Grant, Indigenous Australians & Palestinians, Julian Assange & Truth Tellers
Eminent Australian and Indigenous journalist, Stan Grant, was driven to resign from the ABC (the Australian equivalent of the UK BBC) as compere of the high-rating Q+A TV program by…
Dead Man Walking: One Poet’s Struggle for Freedom of Speech in Bangladesh
On the 26th of April 2023, Mohammad Mofijul Islam, the officer in charge of the Jatrabari police station of Dhaka Metropolitan Police in Bangladesh, recorded a general diary alleging that…
Freedom of Expression: Driver for All other Human Rights
Joseph Stiglitz, the 2001 Nobel Prize recipient in Economic Sciences said, “Free speech and a free press not only make abuses of governmental powers less likely; they also enhance the…
A regime of hurt sentiments
As J.M. Coetzee has written, taking ‘offence’ at something is usually a reaction of powerful and oppressive groups in the face of any challenge to their power or the possibility of…
Zionists & Pro-Zionist, US Lackey Australian Government Threaten Australian Academic Free Speech
Academic free speech is under great threat in Australia (and elsewhere) from authoritarian university managers of corporatized universities, state and federal governments, secret government, foreign governments (notably the US and…
Want to write a book, Contact the Government first
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless…
Do we have right to read books?
Seizure of books before publication is a worst restriction than pre-censorship, which is not permitted under fundamental rights of our Constitution. But it happened recently in Telangana. Right to think,…
The Artist in Contemporary India: Reflections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A-F9qu6c_4 I watched Vir Das’ performance with a sense of awe. His words were pure poetry, poignant and powerful. He had chosen each word carefully, with precision and perfection in…
BUJ and DUJ Condemn Arrest of Journalists in Tripura
BUJ and DUJ Condemn Arrest of Journalists in Tripura; Welcome Bail; Demand Withdrawal of all Cases and End to Intimidation of Journalists covering Tripura violence The Brihanmumbai Union of Journalists…
IT Rules 2021: UN Rapporteurs see chilling effect on freedom of expression
The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, published on 25 February 2021 under the Information Technology Act, 2000 will have a chilling effect on the…
Threatening Writers In Gujarat
Statement by writers and readers of Gujarati literature about threats issued against them in the journal Shabdsrushti Gujarat Sahitya Akademi whose autonomy was wrested by the Gujarat government, which then…
Targeting freedom of expression?
Whether Government of India is extending its censorship power to news and current affairs'? The notification by President Ramnath Kovind extends…
FTII Deny Permission To Screen Student Film In Its Own Campus!
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) admininstrators have stopped the screening of the students' documentary film Hora directed by Harishankar Nachimuthu raising security concerns after receiving threats from ABVP.…
Young Kerala Writer Attacked For Writing About “Padachon” (Creator)
Four men assaulted a young Muslim writer in Kerala on Sunday night for allegedly insulting God in the title of his new collection of short stories. P Jimshar, 26, whose…
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