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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

Bengaluru riots coverage: Kannada news media under the scanner

Anti hate-speech group writes to state minorities commission demanding action against errant channels, publications

Students observe hunger strike, demand national-level exams be postponed

Over 4,000 students undertook a nation-wide hunger strike to draw the Centre’s attention and compel them to delay entrance exams while considering public health safety.

Blaming algorithms is denial of corporate responsibility: Former civil servants to Facebook

Open letter to Mark Zuckerberg demands a look into the working of Facebook’s hate-speech policy in India

Hate content on social media: Corporate and individual responsibility

Does the WSJ expose on FB’s alleged tacit support of the regime’s hate machinery also open doors to a deeper understanding of what led to the Bengaluru riots?

Denounce anti-Muslim bigotry: Facebook employees

Open letter on internal network raises question hate speech in India content controversy, India’s Parliament Committee summons Facebook execs on Sept 2

Delhi-based Journalist Prashant Kanojia arrested by UP police for “some tweets”

Cops say they have orders “from above” to arrest the journalist, he was booked by UP police in April 2020 as well

Canadian Punjabi Press Club condemns attack on journalists in Delhi  

Three journalists of The Caravan had been physically attacked and verbally abused, a female reporter was also sexually harassed

INVESTIGATION: The Missing Cows of Gujarat

How Cow Protection Laws have failed to protect the animal in the state

Education of over 70 percent of youth disrupted by Covid-19: ILO

Most of the affected youth have been unable to transition to online learning successfully

No FIR yet, but Delhi Police sends rejoinder to journalists who were attacked

Media organisations including CPJ, PCI, BJU, NWMI demand FIR, action against culprits

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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

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