Topic: press freedom
Jailed journalist numbers near record high: CPJ
The Committee to Protect Journalists 2023 prison census found that 320 journalists remain behind bars, the second-highest recorded since the census began in 1992.
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Editors Guild slam “misuse of defamation law” as Jharkhand Police book ‘Prabhat Khabar’ editors
Editors Guild slam “misuse of defamation law” as Jharkhand Police book ‘Prabhat Khabar’ editors
Kerala: Journalist who covered Opposition’s protest against CM Vijayan booked
Malayalam television channel 24 News journalist VG Vineetha has been named as the fifth accused by the Kerala Police in the recent shoe-throwing incident at a bus in which Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was travelling, while she was reporting on the event.
IT Dept freezes NewsClick’s bank accounts, “continuation of administrative-legal siege,” says news portal
As of the evening of December 18, NewsClick has been unable to make any bank payments due to action by the Income Tax Department, said the media house in a statement on Tuesday, 19 December.
“Journalism is not a crime”: Columbia Journalism School students slam India’s media crackdown
Condemning the recent police crackdown on NewsClick and the arrest of its editor under the draconian UAPA in India, the students of Columbia Journalism School assert that journalism is not a crime, and it most certainly is not terrorism.
“BJP govt’s fresh attack on the media”: INDIA bloc condemns crackdown on NewsClick
The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) parties strongly condemned the recent crackdown on news website NewsClick, calling it “the BJP government’s fresh attack on the media.”
