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<title><![CDATA[Reliances pre emptive legal notices]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Can legal notices be deployed to prevent a publication from coming out with an article PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA reports how a law firm served notices on the editor of Caravan magazine even as it was working on a cover story on the attorney general. Pix The notice sent.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Andhra FB case underscores 66A misuse]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Under Section 66A of the IT Act critical comments on cyberspace are inviting penal action even arrest. MADABHUSHI SRIDHAR says this gives police draconian powers that violate freedom of speech. PIX Change.org]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Press freedom on shaky ground]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Since January media has been under attack a number of times with police failing to protect its rights. GEETA SESHU says all this forms a grim backdrop to World Press Freedom Day on May 3. Pix One of the Karavali Ale stories.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Media complicit in moral policing]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Mangalore journalist Naveen Soorinje arrested while covering a moral police attack  spent 17  weeks in jail. He tells GEETA SESHU media often approves of vigilantism giving it a religious colour. Pix Naveen Soorinje]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Assault is not a privilege ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Legislators have the privilege of immunity against legal action for anything said in the Assembly. PRABHAKAR KULKARNI says this doesnt mean media cannot comment on violence on the premises.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Now an acid attack ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A journalist and his family have acid thrown on them because of his reports on gutka smuggling. He was threatened twice before the actual attack. GEETA SESHU asks what we are doing about  ensuring the safety of journalists]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chilling Effectthe IIPM block]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[So why did this issue not generate more discussion in the print media  Could it be linked to the fact that  IIPM is a generous advertiser asks KALPANA SHARMA. Pix An IIPM ad]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Guilty until proven innocent]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Siddiqui is of course not the first journalist to be implicated in terrorism related cases though he is certainly among those whose predicament has not attracted due attention from media colleagues or civil society says AMMU JOSEPH. Pix MuthiurRehman Siddiqui]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Who killed this scribe]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A week after the death of Nemichand Jain the questions pile up casting a shadow over journalism in this conflict zone says GEETA SESHU. Pix Nemichand Jain courtesy Kamal Shukla]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Wage issues not fit to print]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A take down notice was sent to website Bodhicommons at the behest of the Mathrubhumi management. GEETA SESHU says the police cyber cells job is not to curb dissent.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Media struck a discordant note]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The fatwa against girl band Pragaash was used to air stereotypes about Kashmiri society. BIJOY KHWAIRAKPAM says Delhibased media houses were guilty of pandering to opportunists and selfstyled clerics.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Fresh nightmare for Iftikhar Gilani]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[quotI have no idea what should I do to prove myself a peace loving and a law abiding citizenquot. IFTIKHAR GILANI of DNA describes his detention and release on February 9.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Look beyond Pragaash]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Media coverage  of the fracas over the Kashmiri girl band has eclipsed other serious violations of freedom of expression in the Valley says MIR UBAID. Pix Firstpost.com]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Public order is the only valid ground]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[What breaches law and order would not necessarily affect society or a particular community as a whole. SAURAV DATTA revisits what courts have said about reasonable restrictions.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mangalore police defend action against TV reporters  ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The arrest of yet another journalist in the homestay party raid case and the rejection of Naveen Soorinjes bail application casts a cloud over independent newsgathering says GEETA SESHU]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ No arrests yet in Tongam Rina case]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Seven months after she was shot journalist Tongam Rina is still waiting for the culprits to be nabbed. In an exclusive interview with TERESA REHMAN she says this apathy emboldens miscreants.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fettering the Fourth Estate Free Speech in 2012]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[From killings to jailing to arrests for Facebook posts 2012 saw a whole gamut of free speech violations run their course in the country. The FREE SPEECH HUB of the HOOT analyses data from the sites Free Speech Tracker. Pix Naveen Soorinje]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[FREE SPEECH GALLERY 2012]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Death. Attacks. Arrests. Censorship. Curbs on online media. This FREE SPEECH HUB photo feature looks back at 2012]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[No candles for Nanao]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Apathy and rank ignorance marked the brutal killing of Nanao Singh by trigger happy police while he covered a protest in Manipur on December 23 mourns KISHALAY BHATTACHARJEE as he draws attention to the absence of safety and training for journalists covering conflict]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Victimized by the Karnataka police]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In jail for the past 50 days for covering the Mangalore homestay raid Naveen Soorinjes bail application was rejected yet again today. A HOOT report on the Kasturi TV reporter chargesheeted for doing his job.]]></description>
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