Life and Death in the Time of RTI (
Case Studies of Maharashtra), are detailed findings about 13 Right to Information (RTI) activists and users of Maharashtra who were brutally killed between 2010 and 2018. Sadly, the challenges faced during the study portray a pathetic picture of how shoddily the criminal justice system treats the death of such whistleblowers who are soldiers of pro-active citizenry in a democracy and how the society, including the media, ostracises and maligns their family members.
The study conducted by my colleague Prasannakumar Keskar and me is an outcome of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) fellowship awarded to us. It was conceptualised and edited by Venkatesh Nayak, CHRI’s RTI researcher. Hesitation of family members to speak out; shoddy police investigations; accusations of the late activists being labelled as blackmailers; witnesses turning hostile; a callous and indifferent media and apathy of the RTI activists’ fraternity these are
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Sedition, criminal defamation laws have no place in democracy: Rights group
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) on Tuesday called for the withdrawal of sedition cases file against journalists and called for the repealing of sedition and criminal defamation laws.
In a statement, the CHRI said criminal cases had been filed against journalists over the past few months for various reasons.
“Senior and younger journalists, photographers, news anchors and editors have been physically and legally attacked as well as abused on social media for their work. This casts a long shadow over the state of freedom of expression in the country, which has for decades been a thriving bastion of journalism.”
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