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The attack on Newsclick must be resisted by those who care about journalism – and democracy in India
This week’s raids on the independent news site aim to stifle free speech and dissent. Newslick founder Prabir Purkayastha. | Prabir Purkayastha via Facebook.
I have been reading about the attacks on journalists, arrests of activists, writers and watching how all democratic space for dissent are closing.
More than 150 journalists have been arrested, detained and interrogated between 2010 and 2020, a study by journalist Geeta Seshu has documented. Of these cases, 40% were reported in 2020 alone.
are a part of that attack on free speech, dissent and democratic space. But the political significance of the raids on Newsclick are of much greater political significance than attacks on individual journalists.
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A High Court judge says that nineteen scientists and three scientific and medical organizations will have their intervention applications heard before any decision is handed down in the ongoing Sci-Hub blocking case. Filed by several publishers, the lawsuit seeks ISP blocking of the platform in India. Justice JR Midha notes that the case addresses an issue of public importance.
On December 21, 2020, academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society filed a lawsuit demanding that Indian ISPs block access to Sci-Hub and Libgen.
The companies accuse the platforms of engaging in large-scale copyright infringement and note that preventing citizens of India from accessing the platforms is the only real option available to prevent their rights from being further abused.
January 6, 2021
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday allowed the Delhi Science Forum and the Society for Knowledge Commons to become intervenors in a landmark copyright case that threatens to block access to online websites Sci-Hub and LibGen, which provide free access to swathes of scientific and technical literature and articles.
On December 21,2020 three publishing giants sued Sci-Hub and LibGen before the Delhi High Court. The lawsuit which demands that the websites and their mirrors and subdomains, be permanently blocked was filed by Elsevier Ltd., Wiley Periodicals (and its Indian arm), and the American Chemical Society (ACS). The publishers claim exclusive rights to the journals they publish, and argue that both Sci-Hub and LibGen are “rogue websites” and are “vehicles of infringement”. The websites violate various copyright rights by providing free access to original, copyrighted work, the publishers argue.