{"id":92598,"date":"2013-01-03T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=8757"},"modified":"2013-01-03T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T12:00:32","slug":"india-free-speech-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=92598","title":{"rendered":"Free speech in India? Not in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From journalists murdered for chasing stories of illegal mining to exploding packages delivered to newspaper offices, <a title=\"Index - India archives\" href=\"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/category\/india\/\" target=\"_blank\">India<\/a>\u00a0battled with a range of free expression and censorship issues in 2012, a <a title=\"The Hoot - Fettering the Fourth Estate: Free Speech in 2012 \" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehoot.org\/web\/freetracker\/story.php?storyid=1&amp;sectionId=14%20%3Chttp:\/\/www.thehoot.org\/web\/freetracker\/story.php?storyid=1&amp;amp;sectionId=14\" target=\"_blank\">report released this week<\/a>\u00a0by media watchdog <a href=\"http:\/\/thehoot.org\/web\/home\/index.php\">The Hoot<\/a> shows.<\/p>\n<p>Harassment in the form of stone-throwing, physical assault and even bullets was meted out to journalists exposing the underbelly of India, especially when reporting on cases of deep corruption by politicians.<\/p>\n<p>The arts also saw censorship in the form of cancelled shows due to objections of themes such as homosexuality, and the much-publicised cancelled visit of\u00a0<a title=\"Index - Salman Rushdie pulls out of Indian literary festival amid assassination fears \" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2012\/01\/salman-rushdie-pulls-out-of-indian-literary-festival-amid-assassination-fears\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salman Rushdie<\/a> to the Jaipur Literary Festival due to &#8220;security concerns&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Section 66A of the IT Act 2000 also made headlines when ordinary citizens were arrested for criticising politicians on <a title=\"Index - India's face-off with internet freedom\" href=\"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/2012\/08\/india-internet-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">social media<\/a> platforms, leading to massive public outrage.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read the full report\u00a0<a title=\"The Hoot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehoot.org\/web\/freetracker\/story.php?storyid=1&amp;sectionId=14 &lt;http:\/\/www.thehoot.org\/web\/freetracker\/story.php?storyid=1&amp;amp;sectionId=14\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>More on this story:<\/h3>\n<h3><a title=\"Index - India must choose to defend free speech\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2012\/01\/india-must-choose-to-defend-free-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salil Tripathi<\/a> on why India must choose to defend free speech<\/h3>\n<h3>India&#8217;s tussle with\u00a0<a title=\"Index - India's face-off with internet freedom\" href=\"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/2012\/08\/india-internet-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">internet freedom<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>The threat of colonial-era <a title=\"Index - Sedition laws: India\u2019s colonial-era threat to free expression \" href=\"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/2012\/09\/india-sedition-aseem-trivedi\/\" target=\"_blank\">sedition<\/a> laws<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From journalists murdered for chasing stories of illegal mining to exploding packages delivered to newspaper offices, India\u00a0battled with a range of free expression and censorship issues in 2012, a report released this week\u00a0by media watchdog The Hoot shows. Harassment in the form of stone-throwing, physical assault and even bullets was meted out to journalists exposing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4061,5656],"tags":[103,986,3003,5185,727,299,1721],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}