Suppressing Dissent

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that Russia was seeking to "suppress dissent" in throwing out an appeal by jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navlany.

A group of citizens, including former judges, IAS and IPS officers, today slammed those accusing the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh of "crushing" dissent by suppressing democratic protests

The Congress today said it will approach the Supreme Court hours after the Rajasthan High Court said that no action can be taken against Sachin Pilot and other rebel party leaders for now. The order had been seen as a reprieve for the group against immediate disqualification even though the verdict was delayed after the high court accepted Team Pil...

A Supreme Court judge today while hearing petitions on the crisis in the Rajasthan government mentioned a passing reference to the idea of dissent. A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices AK Mishra, BR Gavai and Krishna Murari today heard rival petitions filed by the Sachin Pilot camp and the Ashok Gehlot's Congress government.

Sonia Gandhi, in a video statement on Friday, accused the government of showing "utter disregard" for people's voices in the nationwide protests against the citizenship law.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram claimed today that the government's response to issues such as the Rafale deal charges, falling markets and the depreciating rupee is to "suppress dissent".

Concerned over a proposed move to frame new rules for online news, more than 100 journalists and media professionals have written to I&B Minister Smriti Irani, saying additional regulations will open up the possibility of widespread abuse and attempts to suppress political dissent by the government.

More governments are following the lead of Russia and China by manipulating social media and suppressing dissent online in a grave threat to democracy, a human rights watchdog said Tuesday.

Mounting a fresh attack, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today accused the Modi government and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh of crushing voices of dissent of students across the country and pitched for a law to protect them from "discrimination" and "suppression".

In the middle of a nationwide debate on intolerance, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said supersession of dissent poses "grave danger" for economic development. "Nation deeply concerned at recent tragic instances of violations of freedom of thought," he said at a conference organized to mark the 125th birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehr...

Expressing concern over attempts to curb the voice of dissent in the country, Vice President Hamid Ansari has said that any attempts to suppress it "diminishes the democratic essence".

When Thailand's generals declared martial law to suppress months of political bloodshed one of the first casualties was freedom of information with a swift crackdown on any murmurs of dissent on television and social media.

It was late one afternoon in January when a squad of plainclothes police officers arrived at the headquarters of a prominent environmental group here. They brushed past the staff with barely a word and instead set upon the computers before carting them away. Taken were files that chronicled a generation's worth of efforts to protect the Siberian wi...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that Russia was seeking to "suppress dissent" in throwing out an appeal by jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navlany.

A group of citizens, including former judges, IAS and IPS officers, today slammed those accusing the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh of "crushing" dissent by suppressing democratic protests

The Congress today said it will approach the Supreme Court hours after the Rajasthan High Court said that no action can be taken against Sachin Pilot and other rebel party leaders for now. The order had been seen as a reprieve for the group against immediate disqualification even though the verdict was delayed after the high court accepted Team Pil...

A Supreme Court judge today while hearing petitions on the crisis in the Rajasthan government mentioned a passing reference to the idea of dissent. A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices AK Mishra, BR Gavai and Krishna Murari today heard rival petitions filed by the Sachin Pilot camp and the Ashok Gehlot's Congress government.

Sonia Gandhi, in a video statement on Friday, accused the government of showing "utter disregard" for people's voices in the nationwide protests against the citizenship law.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram claimed today that the government's response to issues such as the Rafale deal charges, falling markets and the depreciating rupee is to "suppress dissent".

Concerned over a proposed move to frame new rules for online news, more than 100 journalists and media professionals have written to I&B Minister Smriti Irani, saying additional regulations will open up the possibility of widespread abuse and attempts to suppress political dissent by the government.

More governments are following the lead of Russia and China by manipulating social media and suppressing dissent online in a grave threat to democracy, a human rights watchdog said Tuesday.

Mounting a fresh attack, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today accused the Modi government and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh of crushing voices of dissent of students across the country and pitched for a law to protect them from "discrimination" and "suppression".

In the middle of a nationwide debate on intolerance, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said supersession of dissent poses "grave danger" for economic development. "Nation deeply concerned at recent tragic instances of violations of freedom of thought," he said at a conference organized to mark the 125th birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehr...

Expressing concern over attempts to curb the voice of dissent in the country, Vice President Hamid Ansari has said that any attempts to suppress it "diminishes the democratic essence".

When Thailand's generals declared martial law to suppress months of political bloodshed one of the first casualties was freedom of information with a swift crackdown on any murmurs of dissent on television and social media.

It was late one afternoon in January when a squad of plainclothes police officers arrived at the headquarters of a prominent environmental group here. They brushed past the staff with barely a word and instead set upon the computers before carting them away. Taken were files that chronicled a generation's worth of efforts to protect the Siberian wi...