The Editors Guild of India is deeply concerned over the registration of a First Information Report (FIR) at Varanasi’s Ramnagar police station against Scroll Executive Editor Supriya Sharma and its Chief Editor over a report published from Varanasi’s Domari village. The FIR was filed on June 13 under Sections 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life) and 501 (printing or engraving matter known to be defamatory) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) as also under the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act (SC/ST Act). This followed a complaint by Mala Devi, who was quoted by Supriya Sharma in her report, published on Scroll.in on June 8.
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India: Concern over Registration of FIR Against Editors of Scroll.in Statement by the Editors Guild of India on 19 June 2020
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Toward the era after the strongman | Radhika Coomaraswamy
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Anton Harder: Defining Independence in Cold War Asia: Sino-Indian Relations, 1949-1962 | PhD thesis from 2015
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Israeli annexation of parts of the Palestinian West Bank would break international law – UN experts call on the international community to ensure accountability | 16 June 2020
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India: Covid 19 Lockdown and Exodus of Urban Migrant Workers - select reports (March-June 2020)
12 June 2020Eight reports from diverse sources on the COVID19 lockdown impact on labour, the issues of joblessness, social distress and exodus that it triggered.
