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| DUJ, IWPC, NAJ condemn growing restrictions and attacks on media freedom | | New Rules & Raids Threaten Media Freedom | 
New Delhi, November 21 (Scoop News)-The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ), Indian Women’s Press Corps (IWPC) and National Alliance of Journalists (NAJ) condemns the growing restrictions and attacks on media freedom. Most recent among these is the notification of the Rules of the ironically named Digital Personal Data Protection Act and the raid on one of Kashmir’s last independent newspapers, the Kashmir Times.
DJU in a joint statement said that the DPDP Act and the Rules(notified on November 14, 2025) will severely curb the Right to Information and directly impact journalists’ ability to extract information regarding irregularities committed by officialdom and the political class, in the guise of protecting their ‘privacy’.
Statement further said that Journalists could find themselves penalised for revealing information on, for instance, corruption by individuals in public life. This move is one more attempt by the government to control the media and ensure its silence on controversial matters. Worldwide, in the digital era technology has facilitated the ability of governments to readily share information in the public sphere. India seems to be unfortunately reversing this trajectory. The need of the hour is more transparency in governance, rather than the drawing of a veil over issues of public concern.
In a statement said that The raid on the Jammu office of Kashmir Times, an office unused for the past three or four years, according to its editors, is one more attack on the freedom of the media in Kashmir, a state where journalists have been under threat for years. The Kashmir Times, an English daily established in 1955, was forced to go completely digital as advertising, including government advertising, dried up. In October 2020, the Srinagar office of the daily was sealed by the authorities. Computers and equipment were seized and have not been returned to date. Earlier the intrepid woman editor Anuradha Bhasin was evicted from her residence without notice.
According to DUJ that the State Investigative Agency (SIA) said it had found several rounds of ammunition including cartridges of AK 47s, pistol rounds and hand grenade pins in the raid on the Jammu office of the Kashmir Times on November 20. A case has been registered against the newspaper by the SIA for ‘glorification of activities inimical to the interests of the country’. However the editors deny the allegations, saying the office has been lying defunct and unused and that the charges are false.... |
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