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55 Indian Journalists Arrested, Booked, Threatened For Reporting on COVID-19: Report, The Wire

The Wire 16 June 2020 The report said that as many as 22 FIRs were filed against various journalists while the lockdown was in progress. New Delhi: Ashwini Saini is a contributor to a Facebook page that publishes news on the Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh.  Saini, who also works as a freelancer for the Hindi […]

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 […]

Congress’ Saikia to write to Supreme Court to check if placing NRC data in assembly violates court’s order, The Economic Times

The Economic Times BY BIKASH SINGH , ET BUREAU | AUG 03, 2019 Guwahati: Leader of opposition in Assam legislative assembly and congress leader, Debabrata Saikia said that Assam government has done contempt of Supreme Court by placing district wise data of draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) published last year in the floor of the house. Saikia […]