BY GAUTAM BHATIA If the correct test is one of incitement to lawless action, then Section 295A are far too broad. Under no interpretation can it be said that intentional insult to religion, or to religious feelings, is necessarily equivalent to… Continue Reading →
These actors were charged under section 295A before Kiku Sharda HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Updated: Jan 13, 2016 18:11 IST Section 295A of IPC deals with issues that can hurt religious sentiments. The arrest of stand-up comedian Kiku… Continue Reading →
MALAVIKA SANGGHVI | Following the arrest of stand up comic Kiku Sharda, Malavika Sangghvi pens a letter to Sant Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh about his masterpiece Highway Love Charger Dear Sant Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan, Aloha and Yo! I… Continue Reading →
Author Shripal Sabnis hastened to clarify that he has expressed regret and not tendered a public apology as certain quarters were demanding. – Written by MANOJ MORE | Pune | Updated: January 14, 2016 2:10 am Author Shripal Sabnis hastened… Continue Reading →
KIKU SHARDA -ONE MORE NIGHT IN JAIL, I AM VERY UPSET’ By Sanyukta Iyer, Mumbai Mirror | Jan 14, 2016, 02.27 AM IST Top right: Gurmeet Ram Raheem Singh Insaan; Raghavendra ‘Kiku’ Sharda (above) Says Kiku Sharda who after being let out on… Continue Reading →
2015 was a hugely eventful year for free speech in India. There were legal, political and technological developments that set the tone for these issues to be debated all year round. And journalists were at their most vulnerable, with deaths,… Continue Reading →
< Radio faces Mann ki blast Sumi Sukanya New Delhi, Nov. 4: The Narendra Modi government is preparing to crack down on community radio stations for failing to broadcast the Prime Minister’s monthly radio programme, Mann ki Baat, and for airing “anti-government” views. The… Continue Reading →
November 3, 2015 | 9:58 PM By Reuters Injured Bangladeshi publisher Ahmedur Rashid Tutul is assisted by his wife as he sits at Dhaka Medical College Hospital in Dhaka on November 3, 2015. Suspected extremist militants wielding machetes and cleavers… Continue Reading →
CENSORSHIP AND FREE SPEECH By Morgan Marquis-Boire, San Francisco, 20 August 2015, 07:54 UTC Security expert and hacker Morgan Marquis-Boire spends his days researching the shady underworld of government surveillance. Here he explains how governments are using malicious computer code to spy on journalists… Continue Reading →
BY INDIRA JAISING ON 10/08/2015 • The show-cause notices issued to three private TV channels for their coverage of the Yakub Memon execution have no basis in law and raise disturbing questions about freedom of expression in the country The show-cause notice issued by the… Continue Reading →
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