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Free Speech in India 2025: What the Free Speech Collective report reveals about a year of silencing
Based on data documenting 14,875 violations, the Free Speech Collective’s latest report traces how killings, arrests, mass censorship, corporate pressure and regulatory overreach combined to shrink India’s public sphere in 2025
Finally, Editors Guild of India speaks up for Patricia Mukhim!
Mukhim had resigned from the EGI, citing its silence on her case, accusing it of defending 'celebrity editors/anchors'
Will the new amendment to Kerala Police Act curb free speech?
The Government has come up with a provision in the act to curb instances of defamatory and insulting content on social media
CJP moves Ministry of I&B against Pushpendra Kulshreshtha’s hate speech
His blatant anti-Islamic speeches generate hateful and discriminatory content against Muslims in India
Will the Army’s “pinpoint strike” rebuttal finally fact check overenthusiastic TV anchors?
It took a statement from the Indian Army to force TV anchors to take back fake news on air strike
Editors Guild writes to Assam CM on safety and protection of working journalists in the state
Letter comes in the wake of growing targeting of the media in the north east, EGI had written a similar letter to UP CM Adityanath recently
Tablighi Jamaat news reportage: SC slams Centre’s shoddy counter-affidavit
The I&B Ministry had filed an affidavit in response to PILs moved against the communalisation of the Tablighi Jamaat event in news media
CJP moves MEITY against Kapil Mishra’s communal social media posts
Known for being a serial offender, this controversial BJP leader is now recruiting his own Hindutva gang seeking his followers’ special interests- Fight love Jihad, Gauraksha, terms created by the right wing
Freedom of Press in UP: Journalists killed, attacked, arrested, not allowed to talk to lawyer
Attacks on journalists under the Adityanath-led government are a regular feature now
Patricia Mukhim quits Editors Guild of India citing “complete silence” on case against her
Mukhim says the journalists' body responded with "alacrity", and issued a statement condemning Arnab Goswami's arrest but is silent in her case
Kerala HC: It is duty of press to comment on news to enlighten public
The court quashed defamation case against newspaper as it was done in good faith and in interest of public good even if it was contemptuous in nature
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