Defending Our Rights Is Becoming Deadlier
NEW YORK – The harassment, detention, torture, and eventual murder in 2006 of Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian investigative journalist who exposed government corruption, the horrors of the Second Chechen War,…
Media Freedom
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…
DUJ & NAJ Welcome Supreme Court Order on Mobile Privacy
The Delhi Union of Journalists and the National Alliance of Journalists welcome the Supreme Court Order upholding individual privacy and restraining the Enforcement Directorate from accessing and copying content from…
Journalists continue to face slaughtering globally
As the year 2024 approaches the penultimate month, reports over the killing of journalists and other media employees from different parts of the globe continue to be pouring. Shockingly, most…
Journalist bodies condemn hounding of journalist Mahesh Langa
We, the undersigned journalist organizations condemn the registration of a second FIR by the Gujarat police against senior journalist Mahesh Langa in a span of less than a month. Langa…
DUJ Condemns Life-Threatening Attack on Uttarakhand Journalist
The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) condemns the life threatening attack on Uttarakhand based journalist Yogesh Dimri, whose small digital channel Aanwala News has been in the forefront of exposes…
Stop Press! Some Editors Discover Rahul And Rest Of Opposition
The following is sourced from social media and attributed to R Rajagopal, editor-at-large, The Telegraph. THE REPORT ON RAHUL GANDHI THAT MANY GILDED EDITORS DID NOT WRITE LAST NIGHT The…
Police Case Filed Against Woman Editor Of Magazine In Kerala
by Mrudula Bhavani and P.Ambika A case has been filed against the woman editor of a magazine in Kerala in Kozhikode’s (Calicut) KASBA police station. This time it is against…
Provocations by the U.S. State Department Can Chill Press Freedom in Latin America
The headline is provocative: “The Kremlin’s Efforts to Covertly Spread Disinformation in Latin America.” This was a statement on the U.S. State Department website, posted on November 7, 2023. The…
Behind Bars: Arrests and Detentions of Journalists in India 2010-2020
An Analysis of a decade of arrests, detentions, summons, interrogations and show-cause notices against journalists in India 2010-20 The year 2020 has been a bad one for journalists in India.…
Watching God vs No God Media ‘Dangal’ in Tamil Nadu
There is a media ‘dangal’ going on in Tamil Nadu between those who believe in god’s party and those who do not. A fictitious pro god party is created with…
Indian media no longer democracy’s fourth pillar
The web portal, countercurrents.org, has been awarded this year’s Solidarity Media Award initiated by Solidarity Youth Movement. Countercurrents.org received this special award for its courageous interventions in upholding Human Rights…
Proposal To Bring Online Content Under Media Regulations Is An Attack On Freedom Of Expression
A group of over 100 journalists and other professionals related to online media today wrote to the Information & Broadcasting minister Smriti Irani to express their concerns over the ministry’s…
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