NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and the organisation's human resources (HR) head Amit Chakraborty were arrested on October 3 last year under UAPA.
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A Closer Look at India's Ranking on the World Press Freedom Index.
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🐼 Reporters Without Borders states that charges of defamation, sedition, contempt of court and endangering national security are frequently being slapped against journalists who are critical of the Indian government and who are then branded as “anti-national”.
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👍 The Emergency of 1975 was the first time that this constitutional guarantee came under attack by means of legal but questionable measures. But decades later, today, freedom of press still remains a question that looms large over newsrooms.
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"When we have concerns about actions that are taken in India, we've voiced those we've had an occasion to do that," US State Department spokesperson Ned Price.
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🍸 According to a recent UNESCO-ICFJ survey, 73 per cent of the women journalists surveyed reported having faced online violence while doing their job
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♔ As India’s ranking went from 142 to 150 on the World Press Freedom Index 2022 after increasing reports of attacks, surveillance ‘snoop gate’ following the Narendra Modi government coming to power, these bodies have increasingly become embroiled in battles for the protection and security of their members and the fraternity at large.
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💎 Since Independence, vernacular journalists in India have been bearing the wrath of the state, sometimes for telling the truth and in other times just for not toeing the government line
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'I urge Indians to be vigilant and to increase your investments in inclusive, pluralistic, diverse communities and societies,' said Gueterres.
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💟 The opposition Congress received a jolt in Indore after its candidate Akshay Kumar Bam withdrew his nomination on April 29, the last date for the withdrawal of nominations for the Lok Sabha elections.
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🍨 During the interaction with the media, CM Omar Abdullah promised to restore the Kashmir Press Club, which was shut down by the Estates Department three years ago, and committed to reviewing the cases of journalists currently in detention.
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🍷 The enforced silence in Kashmir echoes themes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984
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🧸 As people from all over the globe celebrate World Press Freedom Day, Shriya Pilgaonkar talks about how to maintain the proper balance between truth and sensationalism in today’s media.
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𝕴 According to a recent report of RSF, media directors, investigative reporters, and correspondents, over half of the 28 journalists who have died in last 10 years, were covering environmental-related subjects.
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෴ Anxious Musings: Editors Guild Discusses Press Freedom Amid Tightening Laws, Struggle For Survival
ꦑ The day-long conclave discussed challenges in the digital era, legal hurdles and funding for independent media among other pressing issues.
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On the World Press Freedom Index 2023, India ranked 161st out of 180 countries, a low for the world's biggest democracy.
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🍌 The arrest of AltNews co-founder Mohammad Zubair comes days after he highlighted the controversial comments made by former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma on Prophet Mohammad, leading to an international condemnation.
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𝕴 This sharp decline in Press freedom reveals a dangerous state of affairs in the functioning of media and democracy in India. The condition of the press in India is more often attributed to the vulnerabilities of Indian democracy and the attitude of the political leadership.
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♍ Press freedom has long come under question in the current national politics of India. Several of them are behind the bars while others have been slapped with various charges including the draconian UAPA.
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🌸 The letter pointed at journalists arrested under draconian laws like UAPA and kept in jail for years. It cited the instance of raids conducted on October 3 on the homes of 46 staffers of news portal NewsClick including journalists, editors, writers, and professionals.
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🃏 The raid by Delhi Police Special Cell, once again, has raised eyebrows over the threat to press freedom in India. Several assemblies of journalists expressed deep concern about the raids on scribes and expressed their solidarity with those detained.
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𝓀 Without taking the name of Trump, Biden in his final State of the Union Address to the joint session of the US Congress, identified him as his predecessor, which he mentioned as many as 13 times in his speech that lasted for over an hour.
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🎐 The Jammu and Kashmir Police criticised the report for unfairly portraying their law and order initiatives as biased against journalists.
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൩ Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with US President Joe Biden, answered two burning questions on human rights and climate change at the press conference at White House where the two leaders issued a joint statement.
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Outlook's Shahina K.K. is among the four winners of the 2023 CPJ International Press Freedom Award. Currently a senior editor for Outlook magazine, she was one of the country’s first journalists to be charged under the draconian UAPA.
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🦄 Chamar had brought good news for sure, there had not been any bad news in recent times in any case, but what good news was it? Or how big? Curious journalists herded in front of the editor’s room. The people of the nation were already free. What new freedom had he, or all, got?
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🦋 The police arrested Kishore, her colleague Mrityunjay Kumar and another man Parminder Singh in Ludhiana for allegedly knocking down a woman with their speeding car and verbally abusing her
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🎐 On World Press Freedom Day, Outlook looks back to its archives and celebrates the courage of all those journalists who despite hindrances did their work and upheld the value of information as a public good.
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On Press Freedom Day, the United Nations announced that its premier prize for press freedom has been awarded to three imprisoned Iranian female journalists 'for their commitment to truth and accountability'.
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🍌 On the eve of World Press Freedom Day , the United Nations chief Antonio Gueterres warned that the media is under attack in every corner of the world and urged all nations to stop the targeting of truth and those who report it.
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𓄧 Through a notification, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Ministry (MEITy) published amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed the Centre's telecast ban on MediaOne, and pulled up the Ministry of Home Affairs for raising national security claims from "thin air" without facts.
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Suspension Of Punjab Journalists' Social Media Accounts Undermines Press Freedom, Says Editors Guild
Several accounts of pro-Khalistani leaders were also blocked in India following protests over the police's action against Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh
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🍷 Defending Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is being targeted by the Bharatiya Janata Party for speaking about issues in India on foreign soil, he said this is not the first time an Indian has spoken about issues in the country while abroad.
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🎀 A video, which has now gone viral, shows a local reporter Sanjay Rana, seeking responses from state minister Gulab Devi on several promises of development she had made ahead of the assembly elections
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🐈 The strong rebuttal by Union Minister Anurag Thakur came after the US-based newspaper published an opinion piece on alleged curbs on information flow in Kashmir.
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Updating the Commons on the issue, the minister said India's I-T department conducted what has been described as a survey on the BBC's offices in New Delhi and Mumbai, beginning on February 14 and finishing after three days, on February 16.
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🌸 A top American Congressman asserts that India and the US share a commitment to democracy and economic freedom, which contributes to the development of peace and stability in the strategic Indo-Pacific region, indicating the growing importance of their relationship.
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♓ The minister asserted that the government is committed to ensure the right to freedom of speech and expression enshrined under Article 19 of the Constitution of India.
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𒉰 Like politicians who are hopeful that Assembly polls will be held next year, some of the journalists are hopeful that Kashmir Press Club will be restored and detained journalists released, the government is hopeful Kashmiri Pandit employees will return to the Valley. There is optimism all around.
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♔ Journalists in India do not have any specific free speech provision. Their free speech is same as any other citizen and remains subject to reasonable restrictions. Moreover, in the absence of any ‘shield law’, there is no protection of source confidentiality.
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⭕ Acting on the demands of several journalists, activists and NGOs, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called for an immediate moratorium on the development, export, sale and use of spyware until robust guarantees are implemented to safeguard journalists.
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🍷 The protest was led by left-wing and Arab members of the Israeli parliament. They contend that proposed plans by the new Cabinet will hinder judicial system and widen societal gaps.
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Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan's Prime Minister, reaffirmed Tuesday that his government is committed to upholding and promoting freedom of expression and freedom of the press.
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Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, said the government did not agree with the conclusions drawn by the organization for various reasons including "very low sample size, little or no weightage to fundamentals of democracy, adoption of a methodology which is questionable and non-transparent".
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🐎 National Conference chief spokesperson Tanvir Sadiq said the report lays bare how news media in the Jammu and Kashmir region, especially in the Valley, was slowly being choked through extensive curbs.
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🅘 Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday said that the recent closure of two media outlets in the city does not reflect the state of press freedom in Hong Kong as the decisions were made by the outlets themselves.
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RSF (Reporters Without Borders) in its annual press freedom report has sounded the alarm, stating China, Belarus and Myanmar are among the 'worst culprits' when it comes to jailing journalists in 2021.
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