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Md. Tasnimul Hassan
Latest Salvo in the Crisis of Free Speech in India
28 Apr 2021
After the Union Government’s recent direction to a social media company to remove posts critical of its COVID-19 handling, MD. TASNIMUL HASSAN traces the evolution of the right to freedom of speech…
Anees Zargar
Journalist Bodies Fear Increased Curbs on Reporting in J&K after IGP Kashmir’s Remarks
08 Apr 2021
The IGP Kashmir was quoted as saying that “media persons should not come closer to encounter sites and law and order situations and they should not carry live coverage of these situations.”
Newsclick Report
‘End Increased Interference, Ensure Dignity for Journalists’: DUJ’s Scathing Letter to MPs
19 Mar 2021
‘In sum, we appeal to Parliamentarians to save journalism and journalists for tomorrow. We support new and digital forms of journalism, existing with the older forms.’
S.K. Pande
A Life of Purpose: Remembering Former Justice PB Sawant
12 Mar 2021
‘Sawant made a distinct mark not only in the judiciary but injected new life into a sinking Press Council of India as its Chairman, a role in which he fought hard to give teeth to the organisation…
D Raghunandan
Online News Media and Other Content: Big Leap Towards Censorship
05 Mar 2021
The new rules arm the executive with untrammelled powers over online news media with few, if any, checks and balances, opening the door wide for government intrusion, pressure and censorship.
Newsclick Report
‘In Some Places IT Rules Against Principle of News’: DIGIPUB
27 Feb 2021
‘For the executive to have the absolute power to regulate the content of news portals or publications would be to strike not only at the constitutional scheme but at democracy itself.’
Newsclick Report
Farm Laws: Over 350 Academics, Researchers Condemn Arrests of Young Activists
22 Feb 2021
Twenty-two year old environmental activist Disha Ravi was arrested by the Delhi Police from Bengaluru last week while Nodeep Kaur, a Dalit labour rights activist was arrested on January 12 from the…
Newsclick Production
Arrests, Raids, Attacks: Is Govt. Scared of Independent Media?
18 Feb 2021
On February 18, 2020, Delhi witnessed a protest by journalists outside the Press Club of India who condemned the continuing arrests, attacks and harassment that media persons are being subjected to,…
Newsclick Report
Delhi: Journalists Stage Symbolic Silent Sit-In against Media Gagging
18 Feb 2021
Amid the recent raids on Newsclick and a climate of media suppression, journalists union in Delhi gathered in protest to send out a message to the government.
Newsclick Report
Journalists’ Unions from Kolkata, Mumbai, Condemn ED Raids on Newsclick
12 Feb 2021
‘Newsclick has been intensely reporting the ongoing farmers’ agitation and the raids are clearly meant to intimidate it and a sort of warning signal to other online portals who dare to speak truth to…