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The Delhi High Court on Tuesday, 9 March, issued a notice to the Union of India in a plea moved by Indian news and opinion website The Wire, challenging the constitutional validity of the new rules made by the Centre under the Information Technology Act to regulate digital media.
A division bench headed by Chief Justice DN Patel was hearing the petition on Tuesday. The matter will be heard next on 16 April.
The petitioners in the case are The Foundation for Independent Journalism (a non-profit company that publishes The Wire); Dhanya Rajendran, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The News Minute, and MK Venu, Founding Editor of The Wire.
The High Commission of India in London has condemned false assertions in a distinctly one-sided discussion among a group of British parliamentarians on Monday on the issue of peaceful protests and press freedoms in India, amidst the ongoing farmers stir against three new laws on agricultural reforms. The Indian mission pointed out that foreign media, including British media, had been present and witnessed the events surrounding the farmers protests in India first-hand and therefore any question of lack of freedom of the media in India does not arise. We deeply regret that rather than a balanced debate, false assertions without substantiation or facts were made, casting aspersions on the largest functioning democracy in the world and its institutions, a statement issued by the high commission said, following the debate which stemmed from an e-petition that attracted over 100,000 signatures on the parliamentary website.
Tyrants Want to Clip Our Wings of Freedom
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 @ 9:40 AM
Self-identifying as a liberal feminist, Naomi Wolf is a Yale graduate, Rhodes Scholar, and former political advisor to Al Gore and Bill Clinton. She has ten books to her name and recently sounded the alarm at the growing power of “autocratic tyrants” who are placing sustainable freedom in jeopardy in America.
“The terrible crisis that we’re in under the guise of a real medical pandemic,” Ms. Wolf told Tucker Carlson, “[is] really moving us into a coup situation, a police state. The state has now crushed businesses, kept us from gathering in free assembly to worship, as the First Amendment provides, is invading our bodies, . which is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, is restricting movement. . The violations go on and on and on.
Thousands rally in Budapest for media freedom
Not the first restrictions to hit the newspaper delivery service
Magyar Hang is printed in the Slovak capital Bratislava because its publishers were unable to find any Hungarian companies prepared to print the newspaper, says Lukacs. He said the editorial board is already devising plans B,C and D for the event that Magyar Posta discontinues weekly delivery service.
He said one possibility would be to stuff 5,000 envelopes every Thursday with the newspapers and take them to the post office for delivery. But he said that would cost three to four times as much as the existing service, as well as being more time-consuming. Another possibility would be to sell the newspaper at kiosks and food stores. But as well as being cumbersome, those kinds of approaches would likely cost publishers subscribers, too. As publishers of a small newspaper we cannot afford to build up our own nationwide delivery service, Lukacs adds.
Kashmir Press Club expresses concern about FIR against journalist Sajad Gul on ‘fabricated charges’
The freelance reporter has been booked for rioting, trespassing, and assault for an article he wrote for ‘The Kashmir Walla’ on February 9.
The Kashmir Press Club on Sunday expressed concern over the case registered against Kashmiri journalist Sajad Gul, who has alleged that he was being harassed and falsely implicated by the authorities for doing a story about demolition drive in a village in Bandipora’s Hajin area recently.
Gul, a north Kashmir-based reporter has been booked for “rioting, trespassing, and assault” for an article he wrote for