Armed with ‘disinformation’ law, Turkey cracks down on dissent with days to go for landmark election

President Tayyip Erdogan faces his toughest political challenge in the May 14 elections that could end his 20-year rule.

Nazih Osseiran, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· May 13, 2023 · 09:30 pm

India’s ‘thought-free’ universities and the danger of the ripples from a single dissenting pebble

Students’ minds are thinking minds. But the government wants them to be conditioned by hyper-nationalism and believe that different voices are a disturbance.

Apoorvanand

· Mar 31, 2023 · 09:00 am

Assam man arrested for dressing as Hindu deity Shiva in street play on price rise

The actor, Birinchi Bora, was released on Sunday as all the charges against him were bailable.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 10, 2022 · 03:12 pm

Supreme Court refuses to ban Kancha Ilaiah’s new book on the Arya-Vyasa community

The bench said that the author’s fundamental right of freedom of speech and expression must not be curbed.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 15, 2017 · 06:58 pm

Gauri Lankesh murder: Left parties demand ban on outfits like the Sanatan Sanstha

The CPI(M) said the journalist’s murder fit into a pattern of ending those who speak up against the BJP and RSS, referring to Pansare and Dabholkar’s killings.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 07, 2017 · 08:16 am

My way is the highway: Pinarayi Vijayan just won't brook protests against ‘development work'

Kerala's chief minister is all for dissent – unless it is against him.

TA Ameerudheen

· Jun 24, 2017 · 05:30 pm

The greatest joke in Bangladesh consists of two words: Human rights.

A crackdown on a peaceful protest against a power plant on January 26 is just the latest example of law enforcers doing the government's bidding.

Ikhtisad Ahmed

· Feb 06, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Full text: Greenpeace India employees offer to volunteer without pay for a month to help NGO survive

More than 200 employees of the NGO have written a letter to the Greenpeace executive director, offering their services free of cost in June.

Scroll Staff

· May 21, 2015 · 01:00 pm