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Srishti Jatav: "पुलिस ने कहा कि आप वहां Riots भड़काने की कोशिश कर रहे थे" l NL Interview
सृष्टि का कहना है, "#JamiaNagar के धोबी घाट पर बनी झुग्गियों को डीडीए और पुलिस के कुछ अधिकारी हटाने पहुंचे थे. जिसकी कवरेज के लिए जब मैं वहां पहुंचीं तो मुझे और मेरे कैमरामैन राजू को हिरासत में ले लिया."
Srishti says, "The DDA and some police officials had come to remove the slums built on the Dhobi Ghat of #JamiaNagar. When I reached there for the coverage, I and my cameraman Raju were taken into custody."
Delhi Police detained woman journalist for coverage
Video and audio deleted from the journalist's phone during custody.
By Awadhesh Kumar25 Aug, 2021
कवरेज के लिए गईं महिला पत्रकार को दिल्ली पुलिस ने घंटों हिरासत में रखा https://hindi.newslaundry.com/2021/08/25/dalit-woman-journalist-detained-by-delhi-police
हिरासत के दौरान पत्रकार के फोन से वीडियो और ऑडियो किए डिलीट.
By अवधेश कुमार25 Aug, 2021
The journalist claims that he was misbehaved during the interrogation at the police station. At the same time, on asking his crime repeatedly, the police said that you were trying to incite riots there.
In the information shared by DCP Rajendra Meena on WhatsApp, we were told that the DDA team had reached Dhobi Ghat to remove the encroachment on DDA land. In view of security, the police was also informed about this. For this, a team was sent to the spot under the leadership of Jamia Nagar SHO, so that law and order would not be disturbed. At around 12:30 pm, the DDA team was doing its work when Sucheta De of All India Central Council of Trade Unions along with some of her colleagues reached there and started arguing with the police and DDA staff. During this, he instigated the people of the slums to obstruct the DDA team. After this some slum dwellers created ruckus and stone pelting there. We took these people into custody so that no law and order should be disturbed. Appropriate legal action is being taken against all of them.
Meena has also shared the list of those detained with Newslaundry. According to which Suchita Dey, Rana Paul (Urban Planner), Arbab Ali (Aisa), Shakir, Neha Tiwari, Srishti and Rukhshana were taken into custody.
NDTV बंद करवाने पर मोदी को खुली चुनौती, रवीश कुमार का खास संदेश https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXPRFVfrr-Q Sep 4, 2021
Hathway removes NDTV prime time of Ravish Kumar from the popular preselected channels. Ravish Kumar has asked his audience to call Hathway and askedfor this channel.
Prime Time You Tube Channel videos : https://www.youtube.com/user/ndtvindia/videos
Response by Friends:
Esteves: Actually this is the case in most of North India. All public place/lodges/hotels etc only play Hindi GodiMedia. When I enquired at one of the places where I stayed they said that a certain party pays them a monthly amount to not tune any other channel, so even if you agree to pay them extra for let us say NDTV, they bluntly refuse!! I was desperate for news and Hindi is not my strong point!!
Now Hathway seems to have gone a step further!!
Hathway Cable ने लोकप्रिय पैकों से NDTV India को हटाया, देखें Ravish Kumar का दर्शकों को संदेश https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuk8ju90RDc Sep 3, 2021
Hathway Cable ने कुछ लोकप्रिय पैकों से NDTV इंडिया (NDTV India) को हटा दिया है. अक्सर बिजनेस की बारीकियों का बहाना बनाया जाता है... देखिए रवीश कुमार (Ravish Kumar) का दर्शकों को संदेश।
the article in question: https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/07/01/threatened-us-tried-to-extort-money-muslim-convert-accuses-media-of-misreporting-harassment.‘Threatened us, tried to extort money’: Muslim convert accuses media of misreporting, harassment..Ayesha Alvi moved the high court over threats she received for her conversion. The court directed the police to ‘protect her life and safety’.
PM Modi "Press Freedom Predator", Riding On National Populism and Disinformation: RSF Jul 6, 2021 https://youtu.be/ceeZCYKKVk8?t=98
From 2016 onwards India has consistently slid down on the World Press Freedom Index. Currently, it is at 142nd rank. which is same as last year. But that makes us country in the ranks with Pakistan and Bangladesh etc in terms of Press Freedom index. Even Nepal and Bhutan have better ranking than India. This report By Reporters Without Borders, a media watchdog said that India shares the “bad” classification with Brazil, Mexico and Russia.
Now Reporters Without Borders, has published another report in which it has listed leaders from around the world who are classified as “press freedom predators”. And the report has also named Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in its list of 37 heads of states who have astronomically suppressed Press Freedom in their respective countries.
French media watchdog lists Modi as ‘predator of press freedom’, govt rubbishes it as ‘baseless’ https://theprint.in/india/french-media-watchdog-lists-modi-as-predator-of-press-freedom-govt-rubbishes-it-as-baseless/690574/
International non-profit Reporters Without Borders alleges Modi preys on the press by using a method based on national populism and disinformation.
Kanchan Gupta, senior advisor in the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, rubbished the report, calling it “fact-free” and “baseless”.
“A report is framed on the basis of facts and figures. A fact-free, broad-brush labelling of the elected Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy as a ‘tyrant’ and baselessly accusing him of ‘divisive disinformation’, is at best an ill-informed opinion beneath contempt,” he told ThePrint when reached for comment. “…at worst, it’s a malicious and malevolent targeted attack not only on the Prime Minister of India but also on the country’s established political process as well as its sovereign laws. Media freedom is hale and hearty in India and does not require any intervention by an agenda-driven foreign NGO,” Gupta added.
A 'predator' with an 'insidious strategy': Narendra Modi figures on RSF's list of 'press freedom predators' https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/07/06/a-predator-with-an-insidious-strategy-narendra-modi-figures-on-rsfs-list-of-press-freedom-predators 06 Jul, 2021
Describing Modi's methodology, the report claimed that he floods mainstream media "with speeches and information tending to legitimise his national-populist ideology" and pushes forward the discourse of “media against journalism”.
The report continued: “On the one hand, by visibly ingratiating himself with the owners of leading media outlets, their journalists know they risk dismissal if they criticise the government. On the other, prominent coverage of his extremely divisive and derogatory speeches, which often constitute disinformation, enables the media to achieve record audience levels.”
Furthermore, Reporters Without Borders' report talked about the tools that Modi employs to enforce his control which include judicial provisions, such as the vague charge of sedition, and an army of online trolls that “wage appalling hate campaigns on social media against the journalists they don’t like.”
New IT Rules: How Is The Modi Govt. Working To Censor Digital Media? | Arfa Khanum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs3e6UnCDOg
नए आईटी नियमों के तहत गूगल ने अपनी पहली मासिक पारदर्शिता रिपोर्ट दी है, जिसमें कहा है कि उसे स्थानीय क़ानूनों या व्यक्तिगत अधिकारों के कथित उल्लंघन को लेकर शिकायतें मिलीं, जिसके परिणामस्वरूप 59,350 सामग्रियां प्लेटफॉर्म से हटाई गईं. इस मुद्दे पर द वायर की सीनियर एडिटर आरफ़ा ख़ानम शेरवानी ने चर्चा की हार्ड न्यूज़ के सम्पादक संजय कपूर, सत्य हिंदी के संपादक आशुतोष और वरिष्ठ पत्रकार अनुराधा भसीन से
A Spectre Is Haunting This Government - The Spectre Of Digital News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBKPasAMVtw
FIR In UP Against News Site Over Documentary On Mosque Demolition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRq4IgxRWeU Days after a case was filed against online news platform - 'The Wire' - and several others over tweets linked to the assault of a Muslim man in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad, the state police have filed another case against the news website - this time in Barabanki. In the FIR (first information report) filed over a documentary on the demolition of a mosque in Barabanki, which the authorities describe as an "unauthorised structure", the news website has been accused of "promoting enmity" and holding an "intent to cause riot".
How A Mosque In Barabanki Was Demolished | Ground Report | Seraj Ali https://indianexpress.com/article/india/fir-against-the-wire-3-journalists-for-video-on-barabanki-mosque-demolition-7374688/lite/
Jun 22, 2021 FIR against The Wire, 2 journalists for video on Barabanki mosque demolition By: Express News Service : June 25, 2021
Last month, Barabanki district administration had demolished a mosque located in the Ramsnehi Ghat Tehsil premises. Siddharth Varadarajan, the Founding Editor of The Wire, said: “This is the fourth FIR filed by the UP Police in the past 14 months against The Wire and/or its journalists and each of these cases is baseless. The Adityanath government does not believe in media freedom and is criminalising the work of journalists who are reporting what is happening in the state.”
New IT Rules breach law and gag free speech: 13 key news media firms move Madras HC https://indianexpress.com/article/india/new-it-rules-breach-law-and-gag-free-speech-13-key-news-media-firms-move-madras-hc-7372956/ June 24, 2021
submission that there is “sufficient basis for the petitioners…apprehension that coercive and arm-twisting action may be taken” undersuchprovisions and sought an order seeking restraint of operation of Rules 12, 14 and 16 Rule 16 of the Rules give the Secretary, I&B, emergency powers to block, as an interim measure, public access to any information or a part of it without giving the intermediary hosting the said information any opportunity of hearing. Provision 12 offers options for one or more self-regulatory body of publishers, while 14 says that I&B Ministry shall constitute an inter-departmental committee with representatives from other Ministries.
‘IT rules impose chilling effect on free speech’: TM Krishna moves Madras HC https://indianexpress.com/article/india/right-to-privacy-tm-krishna-it-rules-madras-high-court-centre-7352917/ June 10, 2021
The Madras High Court has given the government three weeks to file a response to the affidavit and the matter will be heard after four weeks.
the petition says the guidelines regarding content around belief, race or religion, will “thwart artists from raising difficult questions against existing aesthetic, gender and caste hierarchies in Karnatic music,” and thwart dissent against existing norms.
“A reading of the Code of Ethics contained in the Impugned Rules makes it impossible to glean what will be considered by the Union government as acceptable speech in the online world. In any event, it is submitted that determining what is acceptable isn’t the sole prerogative of the government,” the petition states.
Editors Guild condemns UP FIRs against journalists https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/withdraw-fir-against-journalists-for-sharing-ghaziabad-man-video-editors-guild/ar-AAL9l4D EG: it is quite 
evident that the police has been discriminatory in targeting those media organizations and journalists- when thousands had tweeted the video that have been critical of the government and its policies...” It mentioned that it is the “duty of journalists to report on the basis of sources and in case facts become contested later on, to report the emerging versions and facets”.
FIR Against Twitter And Journalists | Faye D’Souza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuTV43Ye5Bc
Is the job of the journalist to only report the police version of the story and not the version of the victim?
An FIR has been filed in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad district against several journalists, social media platform Twitter and Congress leaders for "provoking communal sentiments" after an elderly Muslim man was allegedly assaulted on June 5.
The FIR has been filed against journalists Rana Ayyub, Saba Naqvi and Mohammed Zubair along with online news platform ‘The Wire’ and Congress leaders Salman Nizami, Shama Mohamed and Maskoor Usmani. They have been accused of tweeting without "verifying facts" and "giving a communal colour" to the incident.
We discuss the above with the following guests:
1. Radhika Ramaseshan, Senior Journalist https://youtu.be/kuTV43Ye5Bc?t=573 https://youtu.be/kuTV43Ye5Bc?t=803 divergent reports https://youtu.be/kuTV43Ye5Bc?t=1031
2. Yashovardhan Azad, Former IPS Officer https://youtu.be/kuTV43Ye5Bc?t=1037 https://youtu.be/kuTV43Ye5Bc?t=1275
https://youtu.be/kuTV43Ye5Bc?t=1790 troll army police serve the govt. No. highly But polie reforms lacking eg UAPA cases.. https://youtu.be/kuTV43Ye5Bc?t=2058
3. Pratik Sinha, Co-Founder, Alt News https://youtu.be/kuTV43Ye5Bc?t=246 No inacccuracy, but it was safe.. https://youtu.be/kuTV43Ye5Bc?t=397 discrimination https://youtu.be/kuTV43Ye5Bc?t=573
https://youtu.be/kuTV43Ye5Bc?t=1275 language.. timeline incident june 5th,, june 14th, zuber tweet,, https://youtu.be/kuTV43Ye5Bc?t=1514
ref: Uttar Pradesh: A man thrashed for not chanting Jai Shri Ram in Ghaziabad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfhA432VUw0 Jun 14, 2021 In the last few years, such incidents have come to the fore from many states of the country where a person who does not chant Jai Shri Ram is beaten up. A similar incident has come to light where a Muslim man was thrashed on June 05 in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Some people asked this person to chant Jai Shri Ram, and this Muslim man was beaten up for not raising the slogan. In fact, the accused also called him a Pakistani spy after kidnaping this person. this elderly man was brutally assaulted by locals in Loni area of Ghaziabad.
Siddhiqi Kapan.. mpther passed away.. https://youtu.be/kuTV43Ye5Bc?t=2069 https://youtu.be/kuTV43Ye5Bc?t=2196
https://youtu.be/kuTV43Ye5Bc?t=2208 Threat of media advisor.. https://youtu.be/kuTV43Ye5Bc?t=2337
Twitter vs Modi Govt | Ravi Shankar Prasad Twitter Ban | Dhruv Rathee Jun 26, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTQbBrwS0vg
Will Facebook, Twitter, Instagram be banned in India? | OTT Rules 2021 | Explained by Dhruv Rathee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Fv3vQZvNw&t=0s
New govt rules for OTT content, platforms such as Google, Twitter, digital media: meaning & concerns Mar 1, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU2Rr4j9We0
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