No sedition case can be filed unless the spirit of Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code is prime facie met, a bench comprising Justices Uday Umesh Lalit and Vineet Saran ruled on Thursday.
Why We re Closing VTimes, One of Russia s Last Independent News Outlets
The foreign agent” label assigned to the website administrator of vtimes.io has destroyed our business model and we see no viable way to continue.
Dear readers and friends of VTimes,
We are forced to inform you that we do not see an opportunity to continue publishing.
In the three weeks since the Justice Department added the vtimes.io website’s administrator to its list of foreign agent media, we have studied seven scenarios for the continuation of the activities of VTimes with or without this status. In each scenario, there was a risk of criminal prosecution of our employees with the possibility of imprisonment.
Under Narendra Modi, the quality of political discourse in India has sunk to a new low, with BJP ministers believing their main job is to attack the opposition and demolish the 'messenger' of every important message.
Independent Russian News Site VTimes Shuts Down Following ‘Foreign Agent’ Labeling
VTimes was formed by ex-Vedomosti editors and journalists who left after clashing with a chief editor they accused of pro-Kremlin censorship. June 3, 2021 VTimes was formed by ex-Vedomosti editors and journalists who left after clashing with a chief editor they accused of pro-Kremlin censorship. VTimes
Russia’s independent VTimes news and economics outlet has announced it will shut down on June 12, just weeks after authorities designated it as a “foreign agent.”
VTimes was launched last October by a group of former senior editors and journalists who left the business daily Vedomosti after clashing with newly appointed chief editor Andrei Shmarov, whom they accused of pro-Kremlin censorship.
A recent series of attacks and growing pressure on journalists who criticize the Pakistan government is a cause for serious concern, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty