Journalists remain in the cross hairs
BY GEETA SESHU| IN SPECIAL REPORTS |02/05/2018
Free Speech in 2018: Murder, violence, threats, gags, and policy clampdowns – that’s how the year started.
The climate for free speech in India
IN SPECIAL REPORTS |20/01/2018
The Hoot’s annual report attempts a state-wise overview of the climate for media freedom and free speech.
A good year in the courts for free speech
BY SEVANTI NINAN, RAHUL BHATNAGAR, SHILPI GOYAL| IN JUDGEMENTS |03/01/2018
It’s been win some, lose some but some of the more significant rulings have been in favour of media freedom,
The India Freedom Report, January 2016-April 2017
BY SEVANTI NINAN, GEETA SESHU, SHILPI GOYAL| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |07/05/2017
The Hoot’s comprehensive report on free speech issues in India, released on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day.
India 2016-17: The silencing of journalists
BY GEETA SESHU| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |30/04/2017
As attacks on journalists rise, so does impunity owing to the politician-police nexus letting the culprits off. Exposing wrongdoing is now very risky.
Censoring the arts—humouring offended mobs
BY SEVANTI NINAN, GEETA SESHU, SHILPI GOYAL| IN SPECIAL REPORTS |18/03/2017
INDIA’S FREE SPEECH CHALLENGES—Part I. Films, television and public events ran into deletions and protests from a whole range of perpetrators in the last 15 months.
IN SPECIAL REPORTS |31/12/2015
Eight deaths, 30 attacks, 48 cases of defamation, 14 of sedition—its been grim year for free speech in India.
Increase in censorship in India
IN MEDIA FREEDOM |14/04/2014
Chilling effects of at least 52 instances of censorship in the first quarter of 2014 by the state, Hindu groups, publishers, student groups and others.
Censorship: how and where - Free Speech in India 2014
IN MEDIA FREEDOM |12/04/2014
Attacks on the media, threats, cyber media censorship, curbs on film, theatre performances, defamation notices and surveillance are amongst the categories of censorship for the first Quarter of 2014.
Spike in curbs on free speech in 2013
BY FREE SPEECH HUB| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |16/12/2013
From three in 2011 and five in 2012, there have been 8 deaths of journalists in 2013. The rise in the number of instances of censorship this year and increasing surveillance,
Fettering the Fourth Estate: Free Speech in 2012
IN MEDIA FREEDOM |31/12/2012
From killings to jailing to arrests for Facebook posts, 2012 saw a whole gamut of free speech violations run their course in the country.
IN MEDIA FREEDOM |04/05/2012
As we observed World Press Freedom Day on May 03,
Free Speech in 2011: A Hoot Report
BY FSH| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |30/12/2011
For the media, 2011 was marked by the killings of journalists, major censorship and surveillance issues, far-reaching legislation, limits on online media freedom.
Can't take free speech for granted in India!
IN MEDIA FREEDOM |03/05/2011
Since January, one journalist has been killed, and nine others attacked.Besides, there is the blocking of 11 websites, telephone taps, hate speech on Facebook and the censorship of books and film.
Free Speech Issues in India 2010: A monograph
IN MEDIA FREEDOM |21/02/2011
For a democracy, India's free speech record in 2010 was far from exemplary: attacks on the media, unwaranted charges of sedition, hate speech, culture wars and much else.
Free Speech in India 2010: One step forward, two steps backward!
IN MEDIA FREEDOM |31/12/2010
Vigilante groups had a field day and the mailed fist of the state was used against both the media and civil society activists and the judiciary gave some relief for free speech in just a few instances, only to take it away in others.
Sedition, free speech and dissent
BY FSH| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |30/12/2010
The year 2010 has seen this law invoked by state governments on not less than five occasions, including Dr Sen’s case. Is the law on sedition being invoked a little too often for a democracy that values free speech?
India falls in world press freedom ranking, rest of the world situation grim
IN MEDIA FREEDOM |20/10/2010
Press freedom has little to do with economic power and India’s much touted economic reforms haven’t helped protect the media,
IN MEDIA FREEDOM |31/12/2006
Eighty one journalists killed - the deadliest year since 1994. Fifty six kidnapped, mostly in Iraq and the Gaza Strip.
Press freedom in Andhra Pradesh
BY s r ramanujan| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |09/08/2006
There were two unrelated instances last month in Andhra Pradesh concerning media which reflect poorly on the image of the government.
IN MEDIA FREEDOM |06/01/2006
Violence still increasing: 63 journalists killed, more than 1,300 physically attacked or threatened. Cases of censorship up, cyber dissidents jailed.
Capping a steady erosion of press freedom
BY ninan| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |10/11/2003
The arrests ordered of the top echelon of the Hindu are merely the spectacular capping of an insidious trend pursued by both the Central and state governments.
How many journalists were actually killed in 2001?
IN MEDIA FREEDOM |13/04/2002
