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Kerala HC dismisses plea seeking instructions to not issue censorship cert
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], August 13 (ANI): Kerala High Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking instructions to the Centre to not issue censorship certificate to the Malayalam film 'Eesho'.
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Twitter unable to comprehend challenges faced by Nigeria: President Buhari
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], June 6 (ANI/Sputnik): Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed disappointment regarding the recent removal of his post by Twitter, saying that the company's censorship policy failed to understand the acute issues the country has to deal with.
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Pak rights commission raises concern over media censorship
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], June 2 (ANI): The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed "grave concern" over the growing climate of fear, violence, and censorship that currently underpins freedom of expression in the country.
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Journalism in PoK: A saga of intimidation, oppression and censorship
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Gilgit [PoK]/Bern [Switzerland], May 11 (ANI): Journalists and political activists from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit-Baltistan have blamed Islamabad for subjugating their voice and harassment by using draconian anti-terrorism laws.
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Pakistan editors strongly object to new media curb, terms it as 'censorshi
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 29 (ANI): Pakistan's senior media editors have raised alarm over a new directive by the electronic media regulator that has advised satellite television channels not to report on government meetings under progress.
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Media watchdog calls China as biggest jailer of journalists
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Paris [France], April 21 (ANI): China continues to take internet censorship, surveillance and propaganda to unprecedented levels making it one of the world's worst countries for journalists and the 'biggest jailer' of scribes, according to a latest report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
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Artists fear censorship as China tightens grip on Hong Kong
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, March 22 (ANI): in order to tighten control over Hong Kong and purge dissent, Beijing may pressure a new museum in the city to remove exhibits that displease China in the opening exhibition.
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New rules for OTT platforms focus on self-classification of content instea
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 4 (ANI): Referring to the new guidelines laid down by the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry for the Over-the-top (OTT) platforms, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Thursday said that the new rules focus on self-classification of content instead of
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Google, Facebook, Twitter threaten to leave Pakistan over new social media
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 22 (ANI): With Pakistan government announcing new "draconian" rules for social media, which aims at giving blanket power to authorities to censor digital content, Information and Technology giants like Facebook, Google and Twitter have threatened to leave the c
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Pakistan's online spaces for dissent, freedom of expression shrinks, while
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 28 (ANI): Online space for dissent and freedom of expression has shrunk in Pakistan, while hate speech and digital surveillance has increased, informed a press statement from the Freedom Network group on Wednesday.
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Taiwan, India growing closer amid Chinese aggression, censorship: Report
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 19 (ANI): Taiwan and India do not have formal diplomatic ties but their citizens have bonded over a shared feeling of being targets of Chinese aggression and censorship, reported The Diplomat.
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'Draconian' secuirty law not a solution for Hong Kong's crisis: Outgoing
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Hong Kong, Aug 19 (ANI): The "draconian" national security law of Hong Kong is not a solution to the city's political crisis, according to outgoing European Union diplomat Carmen Cano adding who says she observed "growing fear and self-censorship" among Hongkongers.
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