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'Attack on freedom of expression': UN slams Gulf's demand t
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 30 (ANI): The United Nations has voiced concern over Gulf nations 'unacceptable attack on the right to freedom of expression and opinion' by demanding Qatar to shut down Al Jazeera network, as well as other affiliated media outlets.
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Azam demeaning army in name of 'freedom of expression': BJP
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 28 (ANI): After Azam Khan fanned another controversy with his remark on the Indian Army, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday slammed the Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and said it has become a fashion to demean the Indian Army in the name of 'freedom of ex
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No freedom of expression in PoK: Shaukat Ali Kashmiri
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 14 (ANI): United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) leader Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri has said there is no freedom of expression in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and added that people's voices are being suppressed under the garb of National Action
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No bigger example of freedom of expression than calling your own PM '
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 27 (ANI): Coming down heavily on the Congress for accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA of suppressing the right to dissent in the nation in regard to the recent violent clashes in Ramjas College, the Centre today asserted that the very party which had imp
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Need freedom of expression, says 'Lipstick Under My Burkha' dire
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Glasgow [UK], Feb. 24 (ANI): A day after 'Lipstick Under My Burkha' was denied certification by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) for being 'lady oriented' and 'abusive', film director Alankrita Shrivastava says it is a matter of shame that she is a
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Indian universities "under threat", need to foster dissent, free
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Jan. 20 (ANI): In the wake of the recent unrest being witnessed at Hyderabad Central University (HCU) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Friday raised concerns at the attempt being made to suppress the freedom of expr
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It is responsibility of Pak govt. to give freedom of expression to all: Ne
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan. 15 (ANI): Expressing concern over disappearance of Pakistani bloggers, Netherlands Ambassador to Pakistan Jeannette Seppen has said it is the responsibility of the federal government to ptovide freedom of expression to every journalist and blogger.
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UN calls on Pakistan locate and return four disappeared social media campa
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Jan.13 (ANI): The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of expression, David Kaye, has called on authorities in Pakistan to locate, protect and return home four disappeared human rights and social media campaigners on priority.
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