-TheWire.in The 'Freedom of the Net', an annual report that analyses the state of human rights in the digital sphere, found plenty to object to in the Indian context. New Delhi: “Where democratic checks and balances are lacking, government officials will exploit regulation to punish any company that moderates politicians’ speech, or pushes back against arbitrary orders to remove content or hand over data.” These lines come from Freedom House’s latest edition of...
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'Totalitarian Govts Rely on Falsehoods to Establish Dominance': Justice D.Y. Chandrachud
-PTI/ TheWire.in "Democracy and truth go hand in hand. Democracy needs truth to survive," the Supreme Court judge said at a lecture. New Delhi: Totalitarian governments constantly rely on falsehoods in order to establish dominance and the citizen’s right to speak truth to power is integral to the functioning of a democracy, Supreme Court judge Justice D.Y. Chandrachud said on Saturday, August 28. LiveLaw, which covered the online lecture, reported on it with...
More »Citizen's Report on Year Two of the NDA-II Government 2020-2021: Promises and Reality, Civil Society Initiative, Coordinated by Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, released in July, 2021
-Citizen's Report on Year Two of the NDA-II Government 2020-2021: Promises and Reality, Civil Society Initiative, Coordinated by Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, released in July, 2021 “Promises & Reality – Citizens’ Report on the Year Two of the NDA II Government, 2020-21” is a collective work by eminent members and organisations of the Indian civil society. The report covers a wide array of concerns and issues in thematic areas including health,...
More »Journalists Patricia Mukhim, Anuradha Bhasin Move SC Against Sedition Law
-TheWire.in The two have said that Section 124-A of the Indian Penal Code will continue to "haunt and hinder" the right to free speech and the freedom of the press. New Delhi: Journalists Patricia Mukhim and Anuradha Bhasin have become the latest to move Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of sedition law contending that the colonial-era penal provision was being used to intimidate, silence and punish scribes. Mukhim is editor of The...
More »"Shocked" Court Denies Bail To Jamia Shooter In Hate Speech Case -Mohammad Ghazali
-NDTV.com The accused is the same person who fired on anti-citizenship law protesters near Delhi's Jamia Millia University in January last year; he was then only 17 years old Chandigarh: In a significant ruling, a Haryana court on Friday rejected the bail plea of a 19-year-old man arrested this week for allegedly making hate speeches - he allegedly made comments urging the abduction and killing of girls from a particular religious community...
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