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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Beating down critical journalism, creative freedom -Sukumar Muralidharan

Beating down critical journalism, creative freedom -Sukumar Muralidharan

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published Published on Feb 6, 2021   modified Modified on Feb 6, 2021

-The Hindu

The curious deference of the judiciary is part of the precariousness of the rights to freedom in India today

Rioting in India’s capital city on a day reserved for the celebration of the Republic, was a new low in unravelling political concord. Within days of that trauma, points of entry into Delhi were barricaded with layers of concrete and steel, interwoven with vicious spools of concertina wire. Some locations had lethal iron nails embedded into the road and trenches dug deep to prevent the ingress of farmers long encamped around the capital city, protesting recent legislation that goes by the title of “agricultural reforms”.

Media clampdown

A few days after the riots, expectations that public resentment would enable the forceful dispersal of protests seemed belied. Active efforts to deter critical reporting were by then under way. Nine senior journalists were charged under the law of sedition, for reporting the ambiguous circumstances of the sole fatality in the riots.

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The Hindu, 6 February, 2021, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/beating-down-critical-journalism-creative-freedom/article33762947.ece?homepage=true


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