Media: Coverage
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| NewsClick Row: Silencing The Messenger | Quoted | The NewsClick raids send a very important message of crumbling press freedom in the country. |
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| Surveillance state? India seizes media's mobiles and laptops | Quoted | Digital footprints of journalists and activists are increasingly searched and seized in violation of privacy and free speech. |
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| 'It was not just an operation against NewsClick' | Interviewed | 'The entire operation was meant to have a chilling effect on independent journalists, those not completely subservient to the regime, the small section still doing what the Fourth Estate should do -- raising questions to those in power.' |
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| Police quizzes 25 NewsClick journalists for 2nd time | Mentioned | The Delhi police special cell has questioned about 25 journalists and contributors of NewsClick for a second time in connection with a UAPA case registered against the online news portal for allegedly peddling "anti-national" agenda in the country, sources said on Monday. |
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| NewsClick Raids and Arrests: Demolishing the Myth of the ‘Urban Naxal' Nomenclature | Mentioned | The current crackdown is transparently part of the same politics that resulted in the invention of ambiguous phrases like 'tukde-tukde gang' and ‘Urban Naxal’. |
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| NewsClick case: Eight questioned by Delhi Police for a second time | Quoted | The Delhi Police's Special Cell on Friday questioned at least eight journalists and contributors to the NewsClick for a second time in a week in connection with its case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act over alleged funding from China, sources said. |
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| India’s communists condemn crackdown on journalism | Mentioned | The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has condemned a crackdown on journalists writing for websites considered critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. |
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| How Indian authorities ‘weaponised’ a New York Times report to target the press | Quoted | NewsClick, a defiantly critical news site, has been in the Indian government’s sights over the past few years. But there was little to show after extensive financial probes – until the New York Times published a report which enabled Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration to use the press to attack the press. |
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| Funds came from China to disrupt India's sovereignty: Delhi Police FIR against NewsClick | Mentioned | Delhi Police, in an FIR filed under anti-terror law UAPA against online news portal NewsClick, has alleged that a large amount of funds came from China to "disrupt the sovereignty of India" and cause disaffection against the country. |
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| Hand FIR copy to NewsClick, court tells cops; 10 journalists questioned | Mentioned | Purkayastha and Chakraborty were arrested by the Delhi Police Special Cell which had registered an FIR in August under sections of the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Indian Penal Code. |