After 14 years of persecution, Julian Assange will go free. We must honor the hundreds of thousands of people across the globe who made this happen. By CHRIS HEDGES Jun 26 The dark machinery of empire, whose mendacity and savagery Julian Assange exposed to the world, spent 14 years trying to destroy him. […]
“Make no mistake, the vital work of national security journalists will be more difficult today than it was yesterday.” By JESSICA CORBETT Jun 25, 2024 Amid celebrations that a plea deal with the United States resulted in the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from a British prison, press freedom advocates on Tuesday continued to raise […]
The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point. By CHRIS HEDGES May 21, 2024 The decision by the High Court in London to grant Julian Assange the right to appeal […]
“To claim these deaths are accidental is not only incredulous, it is insulting to the memory of professionals who lived their lives in service of truth and accuracy,” said one expert. By Jessica Corbett May 03, 2024 As the international community marked World Press Freedom Day on Friday, journalists and advocates across the […]
Press freedom in India has been badly hit by the gobbling up of media platforms by a few large companies. Large and powerful corporate houses have exercised diverse strategies to acquire several well-established media companies. What has arguably worked to favour them is their closeness to Narendra Modi’s government. By R Srinivasan Published on May 3, […]
“Free speech in India has sunk into a perilous abyss and steadily falling press freedom indices underscore the dangers of crossing a line that is becoming increasingly contentious.” Groundxero | May 1, 2024 A report by Free Speech Collective released on May 1, 2024, reveals that from January 2024 onward, in the run up […]
সন্তু পানের গ্রেফতার এক স্বৈরাচারী প্রবণতা। এই বেআইনি গ্রেফতারের প্রতিবাদ না করলে, সংসদ থেকে বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে, পথসভা থেকে সেমিনার-কনভেনশনে, সংবাদমাধ্যম থেকে সমাজমাধ্যমে যেভাবে বিরুদ্ধস্বরকে নিয়ন্ত্রণ করা, দমন করা, ঘৃণা ও বিদ্বেষ ছড়িয়ে স্তব্ধ করার এক লাগামহীন প্রক্রিয়া নরেন্দ্র মোদীর রাজত্বে এক স্বাভাবিক ঘটনা হয়ে দাঁড়িয়েছে— তার প্রতিবাদ করার নৈতিক জোর আমরা হারিয়ে ফেলব। লিখলেন দেবাশিস আইচ। […]
Julian Assange will make his final appeal this week to the British courts to avoid extradition. If he is extradited it is the death of investigations into the inner workings of power by the press. By CHRIS HEDGES FEB 18, 2024 LONDON — If Julian Assange is denied permission to appeal his extradition to […]
By Peter Greste, Macquarie University Israel has emerged as one of the world’s leading jailers of journalists, according to a newly released census compiled by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. Each year, the committee releases a snapshot of the number of journalists behind bars as of December 1 2023 was the […]
Groundxero | 20th October, 2023 Mohammed Zubair, one of the founding members of fact-checking website AltNews, has won the the 2023 Freedom of Expression Awards – Journalism by Index on Censorship for his fight against fake news and disinformation in India, which has led him to face attacks, slander and even jail. The Index […]
Groundxero Report | 16th October, 2023 A joint statement condemning the brazen attacks on journalists and the muzzling of democratic organs was issued to the Press on 16th October 2023 by the Platform of Central Trade Unions/Sectoral Federations/Associations (CTUs) and Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM). The statement was issued in the context of the raids on 3rd October, 2023 by the Delhi […]
Groundxero Report | দেবাশিস আইচ কিল, চড়, লাথি, ঘুষি মেরেও আশ মেটেনি। কালিম্পঙের দুই সাংবাদিকের বিরুদ্ধে তফসিলি জাতি ও জনজাতিদের উপর নির্যাতন দমন আইনে অভিযোগ দায়ের করা হল। খড়্গপুরের সাংবাদিক দেবমাল্য বাগচীর পর আবার এমন ধারায় অভিযোগ আনা হল কালিম্পঙের খবর ম্যাগাজিন-এর সম্পাদক ও সাংবাদিক মনোজ বোগাতি ও কালিম্পং টিভির সাংবাদিক উমেশ পরিয়ারের বিরুদ্ধে। আদিবাসী সম্প্রদায়কে অপমান, […]
Groundxero : October 5, 2023 Over twenty media groups on Wednesday sought Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud’s intervention on the issue of police raids of homes, interrogation and arrest of journalists linked to NewsClick, a digital news platform. A large number of media persons and activists turned up at the Press Club of […]
The Narendra Modi government has so far not no disclosed any specific charge on what exactly merited the arrest of NewsClick’s Editor-in-Chief Prabir Purkayastha and another person under the draconian provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act among others. NewsClick have not been provided FIR copy, or informed about the exact particulars of the alleged […]
বিগত পাঁচ বছরে দেশের তাবড় সাংবিধানিক প্রতিষ্ঠানের স্বাধীনতা ও সার্বভৌমত্বের উপর বার বার আঘাত নেমে এসেছে, আক্রান্ত মৌলিক অধিকার, সর্বোপরি ভারতীয় বোধ, ভারতীয়ত্বের বৈচিত্র্যপূর্ণ ধারণাটাই আজ সঙ্কটের মুখে। এই অবস্থায় নিউজক্লিকের অফিসে দিল্লি পুলিশের রেইড এবং সাংবাদিকদের হেনস্থা খুব নতুন ঘটনা নয়। লিখলেন অগ্নিশ্বর চক্রবর্তী। “—অন্ধকার রাত অস্বস্তিকর… —পথ যে চেনে না তার কাছে… […]