The Index Award winner has launched a new project using song, dance and drama to teach rural Indians how to report on issues using their mobile phone
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CATEGORY: Asia and Pacific
The repugnant Section 66A of India’s Information Technology Act
Repealing the blatantly arbitrary law is the only way to protect and uphold the freedom of expression, Saurav Datta writes
Good sports: Which free-speech offending countries should we blow the whistle on?
Against the backdrop of the World Cup in Brazil, we ask how, during global sporting events, should we respond to countries that repress their citizen’s free expression? Should we engage or ignore?
India: Man facing criminal investigation over anti-Modi Facebook comments
Man from the state of Goa posted in a popular Facebook group that if Narendra Modi became India’s prime minister, a holocaust “as it happened in Gujarat”, would follow, writes Shuriah Niazi
Hush — slander is a criminal offence in India
In India, folks with brittle egos and skeletons stacked up in their closets, can and will wield the law to clam your mouth shut, and even have you put in jail, writes Saurav Datta.
Singapore: Blogger removes posts under threat from prime minister
A Singaporean blogger has had to take down another four blog posts and a YouTube video after receiving another letter from the lawyer of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Kirsten Han reports
India’s Supreme Court breaks police stranglehold on theatre
Dramatic performances cannot be policed and subjected to pre-censorship, writes Saurav Datta
China: Censors work overtime for Tiananmen anniversary
“Keep quiet and carry on” is the slogan that can best describe China’s take on the approaching 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Francine Stone reports
Pakistan: “The end of pluralism and choice”
Militant group Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) in Pakistan’s Khyber agency has asked residents to enrol at least one of their sons to madrassas run by LI or pay large fines. Zofeen T. Ebrahim reports
Singapore: Blogger targeted by prime minister
Singaporean blogger Roy Ngerng has become the latest critic of the government to receive a lawyer’s letter, writes Kirsten Han