Media repression on NewsClick and Judicial Stupor | When Police Seize Reporters' Devices
Channel: 1984 by Apar Gupta
Date: 2023-10-10

This video emerges from the seizure of digital devices of at least 46 people associated with newsclick and the impact on media freedoms in India. It is based on two recent op-eds authored by me in The Hindu.  

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01:12 A trend of increasing media repression and device seizures.
05:13 How our justice system facilitates disproportionate seizures.
11:52 Judicial safeguards to prevent such misuse.
15:23 The legacy of ADM Jabalpur
 
** Text version **
1. Media raids and breaking the silence on press freedom https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/media-raids-and-breaking-the-silence-on-press-freedom/article66600818.ece 
2. The silence around the state’s seizure of India’s press https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-silence-around-the-states-seizure-of-indias-press/article67400634.ece 

** Important Links ** 
1. Prasanna’s article on Rama Ramaswamy Petition: https://www.thequint.com/opinion/newsclick-case-delhi-police-powers-search-and-seizure-of-phones-laptos 
2. IFF's post on the FMP Peititon: https://internetfreedom.in/sc-issues-notice-in-fmp-petition-regulation-of-polices-power-to-search-devices/ 
3. Abhinav Sekhri’s posts: https://theproofofguilt.blogspot.com/search/label/Mobile%20phones?m=0 
4. IFF’s and WCLA event : Hands off my stuff : https://www.youtube.com/live/nHdLZH1DA4g?si=g2IU7Yd2Gw9aj26W 
4. IFF Event: Why is Navika reading my texts? : https://www.youtube.com/live/WOU8w0_w-GM?si=TxX23kErRWHZ2a7f

** Case Law **
K.S. Puttaswamy : https://main.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2012/35071/35071_2012_Judgement_24-Aug-2017.pdf 
ADM Jabalpur: https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1735815/ 
Virendra Khanna: https://indiankanoon.org/doc/87379349/ 
CBI v. Mahesh Kumar Sharma: https://www.livelaw.in/pdf_upload/displayphp-442128.pdf 

** Reports and research **
Status of Policing in India Report 2023 Surveillance and the Question of Privacy : https://www.commoncause.in/wotadmin/upload/REPORT_2023.pdf 
World Press Freedom Index : https://rsf.org/en/2023-world-press-freedom-index-journalism-threatened-fake-content-industry

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