Sedition Charge On Journalist

A senior Pakistan journalist, who was booked on charges of sedition and peddling "anti-state" narrative by the country's security agencies earlier this year, was shot dead in Kenya, his wife said on Monday.

Journalists from Assam's Barak Valley on Tuesday demanded that sedition charges slapped against the editor of a local news portal for an editorial he wrote be immediately revoked.

The Special Task Force (STF) will file a charge sheet on Saturday against four alleged Popular Front of India activists, charged on sedition and other charges last year after their arrest enroute to Uttar Pradesh's Hathras

One more police case has been filed against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and journalists including Rajdeep Sardesai, this time in Delhi, for their posts on social media and comments on the violence that broke out during a tractor rally by farmers on Republic Day.

Multiple police cases have been filed in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and six journalists for allegedly "misreporting" and "spreading disharmony" on Republic Day when a tractor rally by farmers turned violent in Delhi. All of them face charges including sedition, criminal conspiracy and promoting enmity under ...

A journalist from Kerala and three others arrested in Mathura have been charged with sedition by the Uttar Pradesh police. The men were arrested on Monday night while they were on way to Hathras to meet the family of the 20-year-old woman from Scheduled Castes whose alleged gang rape and murder has triggered outrage across the country.

Former Supreme Court Judge Madan B Lokur said on Tuesday that judiciary has to be on guard to ensure that the police does not exceed authority in an investigation and see there is a fair probe. His remark comes amid country-wide outrage over police atrocities.

A Bastar-based journalist has been booked on sedition charges for sharing a cartoon on Facebook that allegedly had "derogatory" references to the judiciary and the government.

A Gambian journalist twice hospitalised in detention pending his sedition trial should be released immediately as the charges against him show "blatant disregard" for press freedom, rights groups said on Wednesday.

Faced with mounting criticism for slapping sedition charges on JNU students' union leader Kanhaiya Kumar, Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi today asserted there was "adequate evidence" against him.

At a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, opposition parties raised their objections over the arrest of a JNU student leader on charges of sedition. The controversy escalated sharply yesterday with lawyers attacking reporters and students and faculty of JNU at a Delhi court.

In one of the biggest nationwide protests, students spread onto the streets on Monday after the arrest of a student under sedition charge in in Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested on charges of sedition last week, will stay in custody for two more days, a court ruled today. Violence broke out at the court earlier when JNU teachers, students and journalists were attacked by lawyers.

A high-profile Gambian journalist who went missing in mid-July appeared in court in the capital Banjul on Wednesday charged with sedition, before being remanded in custody.

India's government faced a mounting domestic and international backlash Tuesday over the arrest of a cartoonist on sedition charges as critics accused it of using colonial era laws to crush dissent.

A senior Pakistan journalist, who was booked on charges of sedition and peddling "anti-state" narrative by the country's security agencies earlier this year, was shot dead in Kenya, his wife said on Monday.

Journalists from Assam's Barak Valley on Tuesday demanded that sedition charges slapped against the editor of a local news portal for an editorial he wrote be immediately revoked.

The Special Task Force (STF) will file a charge sheet on Saturday against four alleged Popular Front of India activists, charged on sedition and other charges last year after their arrest enroute to Uttar Pradesh's Hathras

One more police case has been filed against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and journalists including Rajdeep Sardesai, this time in Delhi, for their posts on social media and comments on the violence that broke out during a tractor rally by farmers on Republic Day.

Multiple police cases have been filed in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and six journalists for allegedly "misreporting" and "spreading disharmony" on Republic Day when a tractor rally by farmers turned violent in Delhi. All of them face charges including sedition, criminal conspiracy and promoting enmity under ...

A journalist from Kerala and three others arrested in Mathura have been charged with sedition by the Uttar Pradesh police. The men were arrested on Monday night while they were on way to Hathras to meet the family of the 20-year-old woman from Scheduled Castes whose alleged gang rape and murder has triggered outrage across the country.

Former Supreme Court Judge Madan B Lokur said on Tuesday that judiciary has to be on guard to ensure that the police does not exceed authority in an investigation and see there is a fair probe. His remark comes amid country-wide outrage over police atrocities.

A Bastar-based journalist has been booked on sedition charges for sharing a cartoon on Facebook that allegedly had "derogatory" references to the judiciary and the government.

A Gambian journalist twice hospitalised in detention pending his sedition trial should be released immediately as the charges against him show "blatant disregard" for press freedom, rights groups said on Wednesday.

Faced with mounting criticism for slapping sedition charges on JNU students' union leader Kanhaiya Kumar, Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi today asserted there was "adequate evidence" against him.

At a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, opposition parties raised their objections over the arrest of a JNU student leader on charges of sedition. The controversy escalated sharply yesterday with lawyers attacking reporters and students and faculty of JNU at a Delhi court.

In one of the biggest nationwide protests, students spread onto the streets on Monday after the arrest of a student under sedition charge in in Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested on charges of sedition last week, will stay in custody for two more days, a court ruled today. Violence broke out at the court earlier when JNU teachers, students and journalists were attacked by lawyers.

A high-profile Gambian journalist who went missing in mid-July appeared in court in the capital Banjul on Wednesday charged with sedition, before being remanded in custody.

India's government faced a mounting domestic and international backlash Tuesday over the arrest of a cartoonist on sedition charges as critics accused it of using colonial era laws to crush dissent.