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55 Journalists Faced FIRs, Show Cause Notices, Physical Assault For Covering Pandemic In India: Report, The Logical Indian

The Logical Indian 17 June 2020 The Rights and Risks Analysis Group report said that journalists faced arrest, registration of FIRs, summons or show-cause notices, physical assaults, alleged destruction of properties and threats for doing their job. As many as 55 journalists have been targeted for covering the pandemic in India between March and May […]

55 Journalists Face Persecution for Highlighting People’s Suffering During Lockdown, Clarion India

Shaheen Nazar | Clarion India 19 June 2020 NEW DELHI – Supriya Sharma of Scroll.in is not the only journalist to suffer government’s wrath for reporting on people’s sufferings during lockdown. At least 55 journalists are at the receiving end because of their professional work. Rights & Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) said that the journalists are […]

A case for truth: Media oppression is a shifting landscape | Sevanti Ninan, Mainstream Weekly

Mainstream Weekly 17 July 2020 by Sevanti Ninan For some years now, the growing challenge to journalism has come from the increasing use of predictable laws. These are the Sections relating to sedition and criminal defamation in the Indian Penal Code and, until it was struck down in 2015, Section 66A of the Information and […]