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Apple Daily's shutdown signals all-out attack by China on Hong Kong media,
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 27 (ANI): The recent shutdown of the 26-year-old Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily has signalled an all-out Chinese attack against media and free speech in the region, as the government has already announced that it would tighten rules about accrediting journalist
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Pakistan government on backfoot after strong protests over proposed digita
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 11 (ANI): Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party has found itself on the back foot on the proposed digital regulation draft after a strong protest by the media and journalist community calling for a struggle to preserve free speech.
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New amendment made to Kerala Police Act won't be used against free speech,
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], November 22 (ANI): After widespread criticism about the new amendment made to the Kerala Police Act, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that it will in no way be used against free speech or impartial journalism and apprehensions to the contrary a
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Muslim bodies in Chennai protest against Macron's remarks on radical Islam
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], November 3 (ANI): Muslim organisations in Chennai carried out a protest at Royapettah against French President Emmanuel Macron following his criticism of radical Islam after a school teacher was beheaded in France for showing his pupils cartoons of the Prophet a
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Pakistan, Turkey wage "hypocritical" war against France
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], November 2 (ANI): Following French President Emmanuel Macron's criticism of radical Islam after a school teacher was beheaded in France for showing his pupils cartoons of the Prophet as part of his class on free speech, two so-called champions of selective outrage against
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France honours beheaded teacher, govt launches crackdown against radical g
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Paris [France], October 22 (ANI): French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday led a national tribute to the school teacher who was beheaded after showing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in class as part of a lesson on free speech, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Trump asks federal regulators to examine social media, free speech: Whi
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], July 29 (Sputnik/ANI): The Trump administration has asked US federal regulators to determine whether current internet laws protect social media companies from being sued for altering or otherwise censoring free speech, the White House said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Lawsuit filed against Trump for signing executive order targeting social m
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 4 (ANI): A lawsuit has been filed against US President Donald Trump for signing an executive order on preventing online censorship that seems to violate the freedom of speech of individuals on social media platforms.
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Activists believe Beijing's proposed national security law will snatch awa
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 29 (ANI): Beijing's endorsement of a national security law tailoring Hong Kong from acts of secession, subversion, terrorism or conspiring with foreign influences, activists believe, will soon lead to an imposition of arbitrary detentions and crackdowns on free speech and diss
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Twitter interfering in 2020 election, says Trump after his tweets were lab
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 27 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (local time) hit back at Twitter for labelling his two tweets as misleading, saying the social media platform is "interfering" in the 2020 presidential election and completely "stifling" free speech.
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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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Indonesia to resurrect colonial-era law that imprisons people for insultin
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], Sep 3 (ANI): Indonesia is set to resurrect a colonial-era regulation that could lead to imprisonment of people who insult the president, in a move that critics said may demonstrate the country's creeping encroachment on free speech and expression.
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