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Caged Voices, Silenced Truths: FSC’s expansive indictment of India’s press freedom crisis
On World Press Freedom Day 2026, the Free Speech Collective (FSC) assembles a powerful, deeply layered account of repression, incarceration, and systemic silencing—centring the stories of jailed journalists Rupesh Kumar Singh and Irfan Mehraj to expose the widening fault lines in India’s democratic promise
Plea in Delhi HC seeks regulating news channels from broadcasting content on communal disharmony
Plea moved in the Delhi High court after right wing news channel Sudarshan TV's show Bindas Bol called Tanishq ad ‘advertisement jihad’
Right to free speech does not mean a licence to promote hate speech: Editors Guild of India
Guild tells Republic TV to behave responsibly, asks police to ensure investigation does not become a tool to suppress media rights
Centre to publish order against Sudarshan news complaints, informs SG
During a brief hearing on October 26, in the hate speech related case. the Solicitor General told the Supreme Court that the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting was ready to publish its order against the broadcast of Bindas Bol show of Sudarshan News TV that was held to be prima facie communal in nature.
NBSA finally cracking down on TV news channels airing insensitive, derogatory content
Times Now held guilty of violating principles of self-regulation, Aaj Tak, Zee News, News 24 and India TV told air public apologies for insensitive and sensationalised reporting
Take urgent action, prevent using Sedition to threaten journalists: IFJ, IPI tell PM Modi
Harassment of journalists in India is making Global news, International Federation of Journalists and International Press Institute write to the Prime Minister
Will Uttar Pradesh police leave Prashant Kanojia alone now?
After months in jail for sharing a tweet, journalist Prashant Kanojia will hopefully be a free man today, he was granted Bail on October 21
Stop harassment of Anuradha Bhasin and other independent voices in Kashmir: NWMI
Network of Women in Media, India, and Delhi Union of Journalists condemn the continued targeting of journalists
Paris beheading: The genesis of such hate crimes
Like fascists and nazis, Islamists believe their superiority grants them the right and the duty to physically eliminate the untermensch (the sub-humans)
Why are govt authorities targeting Kashmir Times editor Anuradha Bhasin?
Second ‘raid’ on Jammu and Kashmir’s senior woman journalist this month, authorities seal Kashmir Times office in Srinagar, give no reason
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