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Pak media going back to Ziaul Haq censorship days, says senior journalist
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Oct 25 (ANI): Senior journalist and author Zahid Hussain has said the Pakistani media is going back to the censorship days of military dictator Ziaul Haq when news content had to be cleared before being printed.
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Growing intolerance against free speech in UK worrying: Lord Indarjit Sing
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
London [UK], Oct 6 (ANI): Lord Indarjit Singh, a prominent Sikh peer in the House of Lords, who quit a regular BBC show named 'Thought for the Day' amid a censorship row over a segment on Sikh teachings, has said that the growing tolerance against free speech in the United Kingdom is "wor
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Sikh peer quits BBC Radio programme for censoring his address
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
London, [UK], Oct 4 (ANI): 87-year-old Sikh peer Lord Singh, who is popularly known as Indarjit Singh to his listeners, has accused BBC of "prejudice and intolerance" after it tried to prevent him from broadcasting an item commemorating an executed Sikh guru who had opposed the forced conver
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Clear online content through censor board demands Shiv Sena member who fil
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Sept 5 (ANI): Ramesh Solanki, a member of Shiv Sena IT Cell who has filed a police complaint against Netflix has demanded that the content over the online streaming site should be passed through a censor board.
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Govt. will take decision to censor films on Netflix after consulting stake
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), July 19 (ANI): Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Thursday that censoring films shown on online platforms like Netflix and other platforms is a matter of discussion and government will take a decision only after consultation with stakehol
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Maryam's interview 'forcefully' taken off air, alleges Pak scribe
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jul 12 (ANI): In yet another incident of media censorship in Pakistan, an interview of PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz with a Pakistani news channel went off air "forcefully" within a few minutes of broadcasting.
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'Who're you to censor me?' Activist attacks Pak FM Qureshi at Global Confe
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], July 11 : An activist, advocating free speech at the Global Conference for Media Freedom here on Thursday, lashed out at Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi claiming that the Government of Pakistan had shut down his Twitter handle.
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Elton John responds to Vladimir Putin's LGBTQ rights comment after 'Rocket
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 29 (ANI): Following the censorship on 'Rocketman', singer Elton John released a statement responding to Russian president Vladimir Putin's interview published in the Financial Times.
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Elton John, makers of 'Rocketman' slam Russian distributors for censoring
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Jun 1 (ANI): The makers of Taron Egerton starrer 'Rocketman' and Elton John have blasted the Russian distributor of the movie for removing intimate scenes between men from the musical biopic.
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MNS demands Prasoon Joshi's resignation from Censor board over Modi biopic
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Apr 6 (ANI): The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) on Saturday demanded the resignation of Prasoon Joshi from the post of the chairman of Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) for allegedly giving preferential treatment to the makers of the upcoming biopi
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Russia says it will not impose internet regulations as China
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Mar 30 (ANI): Addressing growing dissent over new censorship law, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Friday (local time) said Russia would not impose regulations as China.
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Putin signs bills banning fake news, insults
Updated : 6 years, 12 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Mar 19 (ANI): Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed into law a series of bills criminalising persons who would spread "fake news" or "disrespecting" the state, in a move which critics says will curtail freedom of speech of criticising the government.
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