The killings of the journalists were deliberate acts intended to silence them. “They weren’t collateral victims. They were killed, targeted for their work … Key witnesses to history have become inconvenient eyewitnesses, bargaining chips, and people to be ‘eliminated’,” said RSF director general Thibaut Bruttin. Groundxero | 9 December 2025 2025 was yet another […]
তালিবান প্রশাসনের মন্ত্রীর সাংবাদিক সম্মেলনে থাকার অনুমতি না পাওয়া ন্যক্কারজনক, কিন্তু তার থেকেও বোধহয় ন্যক্কারজনক দেশের ভেতরে আগ্রাসী পৌরুষ, পিতৃতন্ত্র, লিঙ্গভিত্তিক বৈষম্য এবং হিন্দুত্ববাদী জাতীয়তাবাদে মহিলা সাংবাদিক, সঞ্চালক সকলেই যেভাবে নিজেদের প্রতিদিন উজ্জীবিত করে চলেছেন তা থেকে চোখ ঘুরিয়ে থাকা। সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী সম্প্রতি ভারতের মহিলা সাংবাদিকদের সঙ্গে এক বৈষম্যমূলক ঘটনার পরিপ্রেক্ষিতে খুব বিস্তারিতভাবে না […]
The current killing of reporters, photographers and other media professionals in Gaza is part of a longer history of Israeli attempts to silence Palestinian journalists. Maha Nassar, University of Arizona Five journalists were among the 22 people killed on Aug. 25, 2025, in Israeli strikes on the Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip. […]
The recent targeting of journalists by the BJP-ruled Assam state government is aimed at creating a chilling effect on press freedom, and to intimidate independent voices and silence criticism. August 24, 2025 Right-wing fascists and authoritarian rulers dislike free media, critical and rational voices. They love cheerleaders, hate dissent, and hence weaponise law […]
চলতি বছর থেকে গ্রাউন্ডজিরো-র উদ্যোগে ও দেবাশিস আইচ-এর পরিবার ও বন্ধুবর্গের সমর্থন-সহযোগিতায় শুরু হল এই বার্ষিক স্মারক আলোচনা সভা। প্রথম বছরের আলোচনার বিষয় ছিল – “সংখ্যালঘু সম্প্রদায়ের উপর ক্রমবর্ধমান ঘৃণা ও হিংসা: মূলস্রোতের গণমাধ্যমের ভূমিকা”। Groundxero | June 22, 2025 ২১ জুন ২০২৫ কলকাতার থিওসফিকাল সোসাইটি হলে অনুষ্ঠিত হল প্রথম দেবাশিস আইচ স্মারক আলোচনা সভা। […]
We should keep a track of this case as the perpetrator with solid political and financial background may go free after sometime. Sudarshana Chakraborty reports on the case after talking to independent journalists and activists from Bastar. The New Year started on an ominous note for independent journalists in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district. Even as the […]
After 14 years of persecution, Julian Assange will go free. We must honor the hundreds of thousands of people across the globe who made this happen. By CHRIS HEDGES Jun 26 The dark machinery of empire, whose mendacity and savagery Julian Assange exposed to the world, spent 14 years trying to destroy him. […]
“Make no mistake, the vital work of national security journalists will be more difficult today than it was yesterday.” By JESSICA CORBETT Jun 25, 2024 Amid celebrations that a plea deal with the United States resulted in the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from a British prison, press freedom advocates on Tuesday continued to raise […]
The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point. By CHRIS HEDGES May 21, 2024 The decision by the High Court in London to grant Julian Assange the right to appeal […]
“To claim these deaths are accidental is not only incredulous, it is insulting to the memory of professionals who lived their lives in service of truth and accuracy,” said one expert. By Jessica Corbett May 03, 2024 As the international community marked World Press Freedom Day on Friday, journalists and advocates across the […]
Press freedom in India has been badly hit by the gobbling up of media platforms by a few large companies. Large and powerful corporate houses have exercised diverse strategies to acquire several well-established media companies. What has arguably worked to favour them is their closeness to Narendra Modi’s government. By R Srinivasan Published on May 3, […]
“Free speech in India has sunk into a perilous abyss and steadily falling press freedom indices underscore the dangers of crossing a line that is becoming increasingly contentious.” Groundxero | May 1, 2024 A report by Free Speech Collective released on May 1, 2024, reveals that from January 2024 onward, in the run up […]
সন্তু পানের গ্রেফতার এক স্বৈরাচারী প্রবণতা। এই বেআইনি গ্রেফতারের প্রতিবাদ না করলে, সংসদ থেকে বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে, পথসভা থেকে সেমিনার-কনভেনশনে, সংবাদমাধ্যম থেকে সমাজমাধ্যমে যেভাবে বিরুদ্ধস্বরকে নিয়ন্ত্রণ করা, দমন করা, ঘৃণা ও বিদ্বেষ ছড়িয়ে স্তব্ধ করার এক লাগামহীন প্রক্রিয়া নরেন্দ্র মোদীর রাজত্বে এক স্বাভাবিক ঘটনা হয়ে দাঁড়িয়েছে— তার প্রতিবাদ করার নৈতিক জোর আমরা হারিয়ে ফেলব। লিখলেন দেবাশিস আইচ। […]
Julian Assange will make his final appeal this week to the British courts to avoid extradition. If he is extradited it is the death of investigations into the inner workings of power by the press. By CHRIS HEDGES FEB 18, 2024 LONDON — If Julian Assange is denied permission to appeal his extradition to […]
By Peter Greste, Macquarie University Israel has emerged as one of the world’s leading jailers of journalists, according to a newly released census compiled by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. Each year, the committee releases a snapshot of the number of journalists behind bars as of December 1 2023 was the […]