Opinion | The right to protest and question: How much is too much?

2 months ago

American universities accused of attack on free speech with strict campus protest rules

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A group of Harvard University professors …

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2 months ago

Judicial Review of Restrictions on Protests: A Critical Examination of the Role of Constitutional Courts in Safeguarding India's Right to Dissent

Live Law

The Samvidhan Series report, titled 'License to Protest: Examining the Role of Constitutional Courts in Upholding the Right to Protest,' sheds light on the evolving judicial stance on the right to protest in India. The report scrutinizes over 60 judgments from the Supreme Court and High Courts, highlighting how courts have increasingly restricted the right to protest through legal regulations. …

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2 months ago

License To Protest: Examining The Role Of Courts In Safeguarding India's Right To Dissent

Live Law

Part III Action Research & Resource Centre has unveiled the second volume of its Samvidhan Series, titled “License to Protest: Examining the Role of Constitutional Courts in Upholding the Right to Protest.” The report was launched at the Constitution Club of India, featuring a panel discussion with renowned figures including Justice Madan B. Lokur, Justice Dr. S. Muralidhar, Senior Advocate …

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4 months, 1 week ago

US colleges revise rules on free speech in hopes of containing anti-war demonstrations

Associated Press

NEW YORK — As students return to colleges across the United States, administrators are bracing for a resurgence in activism against the war in Gaza, and some schools are adopting rules to limit the kind of protests that swept campuses last spring. The University of Pennsylvania has outlined new “temporary guidelines” for student protests that include bans on encampments, overnight …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Americans love free speech, survey finds — until they realise everyone else has it too

New Indian Express

John G. Geer, Vanderbilt University and Jacob Mchangama, Vanderbilt University Americans’ views on free speech change directions every so often. The Supreme Court itself, as recently as 1989, has declared that the “bedrock principle” of the First Amendment is that “the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.” …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Free speech in the age of rage!

Times of India

Aditi Maheshwari is a freelance writer, and has been a student of Economics, Advertising, Marketing, Psychology and also of the Institute Of Company Secretaries Of India. Free speech in the age of rage is messy, it’s uncomfortable, and sometimes, it’s downright ugly. Free speech, when wielded responsibly, becomes Ariadne’s thread, a tool to navigate this treacherous path. In an age …

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7 months ago

Pay-as-you-go protest is not the way forward for democracy or freedom of speech

The Independent

Among his other responsibilities, Michael Gove is secretary of state for “communities” – an amorphous term he has imbued with an unfamiliar muscularity in recent times. As Mr Gove put it, in a keynote speech at a north London community centre, it can be a mark of a society turning to “darkness” and in on itself. The context is vividly, …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: What we keep getting wrong about protests like those at USC, Columbia and other campuses

LA Times

The current campus demonstrations are a reminder that of all the mossy clichés and puffed-up pieties of polite American discourse, the sanctity of protest is the hardest to question. But if I say that most protests are performative cosplay, or mass meet-ups of the angry, the radical, the lonely or the misinformed, someone is bound to point to the civil …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Need To Educate Police About Freedom Of Speech, They Must Be Sensitised About Democratic Values : Supreme Court

Live Law

While quashing a criminal case against a professor for his WhatsApp status criticising the abrogation of Article 370, the Supreme Court on Thursday made a critical observation about the need to educate law enforcement on the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression guaranteed by the Constitution, as well as the extent of reasonable restraint on such freedoms. However, …

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11 months, 4 weeks ago

The right to protest is under threat in Britain, undermining a pillar of democracy

Associated Press

LONDON — For holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants, a retiree faces up to two years in prison. As former Conservative justice minister David Lidington put it: “The ‘good chap’ theory of checks and balances has now been tested to destruction.” GOVERNMENT TAKES AIM AT PROTESTERS The canaries in the coal mine …

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1 year ago

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Threats to free speech rise as global conflicts intensify

Deccan Chronicle

To say that our world has become much more polarised than before after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine would be to state the obvious. That is truly ironic: It is the right-wingers who decry the so-called “cancel culture” and hail free speech. Free speech law stops at the gates of private spaces, although most private universities promise to follow …

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1 year, 2 months ago

‘Universities which promote free speech help society as a whole’

The Independent

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1 year, 8 months ago

What is Freedom of Speech, Press Freedom? Learn in Classes with News18

News 18

For the last two years, the world has been restricted to homes. As stated in Article 19 of the constitution, “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression, this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” What is Freedom of …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Safeguarding media freedom

Hindustan Times

In an atmosphere where criticism of individuals or political positions is often conflated with attacks on the State and legal procedures and gaps in statutes are weaponised to keep people not convicted of any crimes behind bars, the Supreme Court’s judgment on Wednesday quashing a ban on a Kerala television channel comes as a breath of fresh air. The court’s …

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1 year, 9 months ago

'Protect free speech... not thin skin': Police told to focus on 'tackling serious crimes'

Daily Mail

Police must prioritise freedom of speech over people taking offence under long-awaited rules unveiled today. Officers will be told in the fresh Home Office guidance to stop recording trivial online arguments and playground spats as ‘non-crime hate incidents’. Last night Home Secretary Suella Braverman said: ‘I have been deeply concerned about reports of the police wrongly getting involved in lawful …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Right to demonstrate 'under strain' after mass arrest of protesters

Dutch News

The Netherlands’ human rights watchdog has said the right to demonstrate is ‘under severe strain’ after 768 protesters were arrested for taking part in a motorway blockade at the weekend. The College voor de Rechten van de Mens said the preventive arrest of six activists in dawn raids on Thursday morning was especially concerning. The watchdog said the right to …

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1 year, 11 months ago

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Freedom to think is a right worth defending with all our might

Daily Mail

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can revolutionise a whole society. In vital areas of life, especially attitudes towards women, marriage, parenthood and employment, it has become increasingly difficult to dissent from a new set of beliefs quite different from those which prevailed in the 1980s. The Mail on Sunday welcomes Rishi Sunak’s plans to use the …

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1 year, 11 months ago

DC Edit | Free speech paramount, leadersâ€™ discretion must

Deccan Chronicle

The Supreme Court’s ruling that additional restrictions cannot be imposed on people’s representatives, including ministers, with respect to freedom of speech and expression is welcome for several reasons. Any other decision by the apex court would have created another category of citizens with lesser rights; and given the curious way we take such restrictions, it would have created in due …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Right to demonstrate under threat in NL, Amnesty International says

Dutch News

National and local government in the Netherlands is placing too many restrictions on demonstrations by emphasising public order issues, human rights group Amnesty International says in a new report. ‘If you look at the social tensions surrounding major issues such as climate, housing, asylum, nitrogen, racism and discrimination, it is very important to ensure that everyone who wants to demonstrate …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Right to demonstrate under threat in NL, Amnesty International says

Dutch News

National and local government in the Netherlands is placing too many restrictions on demonstrations by emphasising public order issues, human rights group Amnesty International says in a new report. ‘If you look at the social tensions surrounding major issues such as climate, housing, asylum, nitrogen, racism and discrimination, it is very important to ensure that everyone who wants to demonstrate …

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2 years, 2 months ago

'Right To Dissent Core Of Democracy': High Court Quashes 2009 Case Against Kerala CM, CPM Leadership Over 2009 Protest

Live Law

Quashing the criminal proceedings against 12 CPI Leaders, including the state Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Former CM V S Achuthanandan and Polit Bureau member Prakash Karat in a case alleging unlawful assembly and rioting, the Kerala High Court on Thursday said the right to dissent and the freedom of expression which is contrary to the views of the government is …

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2 years, 2 months ago

As Sri Lanka backs freedom of expression at UN, police arrest dozens of protesters at home

The Hindu

Just as Sri Lanka recently told the UN General Assembly that it treated freedom of expression as “sacrosanct”, the police arrested dozens of protesters in Colombo this weekend for resisting a Presidential order. Addressing the ongoing UN General Assembly session in New York on Saturday, Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Ali Sabry said: “We unconditionally recognise the fact that one has …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Police ‘overzealous’ in handling of anti-monarchy protesters, says former chief

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Police have been “overzealous” in their handling of anti-monarchy protesters …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Right to protest under increasing threat in the Netherlands, says Amnesty International

NL Times

The right to gather and demonstrate is coming under increasing pressure in the Netherlands, says human rights activist organization Amnesty International. According to Dagmar Oudshoorn, director of Amnesty International Netherlands, protests are "too often considered to be a security risk rather than a human right that should be facilitated as best as possible.” Some 54 percent of the Dutch populace …

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2 years, 3 months ago

'Dissents that Shaped Our Constitution'

Live Law

Speaking on 'Dissents that Shaped our Constitution' at the Kerala High Court Advocates' Association's 'Continuing Legal Education Programme, 2022', Mr. Datar said he would highlight 5-6 such dissents which were "completely revolutionary in that period of time" and which later became the norm, the law of the land in India. The way he discusses the Canadian, Japanese, US Constitutions, what …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Right To Protest Can't Be Asserted And Practised In Vacuum; Social Cause Needed, Not Personal Agenda: Calcutta High Court

Live Law

"Such right can neither be asserted nor practiced in the vacuum. There has to be a social cause and not a personal agenda," the Calcutta High Court observed recently.The bench of Justice Shampa Sarkar was hearing the plea of one Vineet Ruia, who is the president of an organization known as Bharat Bachao Sangathan who wished to hold protests against …

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2 years, 5 months ago

‘Absolute hypocrisy,’ say activists on Zubair’s arrest as India commits to freedom of speech at G7 meet

The Hindu

Condemning the arrest of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair, a group of activists on Tuesday said it was "absolute hypocrisy" of the government that his arrest came on a day India committed at the G7 Summit to defend democratic principles and protect the freedom of expression. Criticising the arrests, All India Progressive Women's Association member Kavita Krishnan alleged it was …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Limits of protests: Why civil disobedience can’t be one-stop solution to problems in democracy

Firstpost

From hijab row to farmers’ agitation, it’s now obvious that protests can themselves become a problem if they become a daily occurrence Recent weeks have brought us news of protests by girls in Karnataka wanting to cover their faces with the hijab in class as a precondition to attend schools and colleges. The protests led to counter-protests by Hindu girls …

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2 years, 10 months ago

1 in 4 Americans say violence against the government is sometimes OK

NPR

1 in 4 Americans say violence against the government is sometimes OK Enlarge this image toggle caption Jose Luis Magana/AP Jose Luis Magana/AP Nearly a quarter of Americans say it's sometimes OK to use violence against the government — and 1 in 10 Americans say violence is justified "right now." That's the finding of a new report by The COVID …

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2 years, 11 months ago

To save its democracy, the UK should kill its new police bill

Al Jazeera

Imagine it is January 30, 1969, and you are walking by the Apple Corps headquarters on London’s famous Saville Row. Indeed, under the new bill, those deemed to be causing a public nuisance – by making too much noise, blocking streets and storefronts, or generally “annoying” the public – can find themselves behind bars. Of course, the main aim of …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Power of protest: The people who fought for our rights in 2021

The Independent

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Protests were sparked across the UK against gender-based …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Is the freedom of speech absolute?

The Hindu

In the wake of the war cry targeting minorities at a religious congregation in Haridwar, it’s high time India recognised hate speech as the vilest affront and the greatest dishonour to the freedom of speech as conceived and cherished by the Indian Constitution. To effectively curb hate speech, Supreme Court requested the Law Commission of India to examine the issue. …

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2 years, 11 months ago

OPINION | Yati and Owaisi do not matter. But is democracy enough?

India Today

Internationally accepted delineation between free speech and hate speech limits the reach and appeal of public speech if it threatens the existence of a community, ethnicity, gender or race and/or targets a group uncharitably. The strategy of hate speech that invariably crops up prior to any elections globally or nationally exploits the base insecurities of community existence and grayness of …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Thousands protest amid global anger against COVID restrictions

Al Jazeera

People take to the streets in Australia, France, Italy and the UK in protests against lockdowns and vaccine pass schemes. In France, an estimated 160,000 took to the streets in nationwide protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s health pass that will drastically curtail access to restaurants and public spaces for unvaccinated people. “Freedom, freedom”, chanted demonstrators in France, carrying placards denouncing …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Police say they never asked for crackdown on ‘noisy’ protests in government’s policing bill

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The NPCC’s lead on public order told parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights that …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Proposed laws to restrict ‘noisy’ protests breach human rights and must be scrapped, government told

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights found that proposals to allow police to restrict …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Protester's Freedom Of Peaceful Assembly

Live Law

In recent times, we all have been seeing the vilification of protesters and their right to peacefully assemble. This article will discuss whether the right of peaceful assembly is an individual right or a collective right, or both in the context of International Law and will briefly touch upon the imposition of Section 144 and Internet Shutdowns. This provision must …

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3 years, 9 months ago

More than 700 legal scholars urge Boris Johnson to ditch plan for ‘draconian’ restrictions on right to protest

The Independent

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy More than 700 of the UK’s leading legal academics have signed …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Public should be ‘really worried’ about new crackdown on right to protest, ex-police chief says

The Independent

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An ex-police chief says the public should be “really worried” about …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Farrukh Dhondy | Why it's crucial to stand up for views you may not agree with

Deccan Chronicle

“There is time always, Bachchoo, To talk of many things As the Walrus did expound On cabbages and kings And yet this global fear Clips conversation’s wings The only news we hear Is of Covid’s mutatings!” From O For a Sip of Bepsi Kohla by Bachchoo Without freedom of speech and opinion, there is no democracy. It’s a law that …

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3 years, 10 months ago

‘Police everywhere, justice nowhere’: Hundreds protest in Tunisia

Al Jazeera

More than 1,000 people arrested in Tunisia over past two weeks in protests against corruption and police brutality. Hundreds of Tunisians marched in the capital on Saturday to protest against police abuses they say are endangering freedoms won in the 2011 revolution that swept away authoritarian rule. Amid sporadic clashes, police have arrested more than 1,000 people during demonstrations over …

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3 years, 11 months ago

The struggle for religious freedom — from Thomas Jefferson to Black Lives Matter

Salon

Falling midway between Donald Trump's second impeachment and Joe Biden's inauguration, Jan. 16 marked a less-noticed but arguably more important commemoration, the 235th anniversary of the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. In contrast, she notes, "Whatever the convention — Protestant, Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, non-denominational, Indigenous —African Americans exercised religious freedom largely as a means of resistance and …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Right To Personal Liberty : Challenge Before Constitutional Courts

Live Law

The recent judgment delivered by the Kerala High Court in the matter of Allan Shuaib and Thwaha Fasal is cause for grave concern capitulating as it does to dominant political rhetoric and public morality, eschewing the pathways of constitutional morality, judicial empathy and epistemic humility. In a careful and diligent attempt to examine whether the two young men were entitled …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Reassert â€˜coreâ€™ values & halt democracyâ€™s decay

Deccan Chronicle

In his book The Age Rights, Prof Louis Henkin, a celebrated scholar of international law, had claimed “human rights is the idea of our time, the only political-moral idea that has received universal acceptance”. Denial of basic human rights to undertrials, poignantly exemplified in the refusal of a sipper to an 80-year-old undertrial priest suffering from Parkinson’s disease and the …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Police response to pro-Trump protesters was different to Black Lives Matter. I know why

ABC

Like many in Australia, I awoke Thursday to an America in crisis. In June, authorities unleashed flash grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets upon peaceful Black Lives Matters protesters assembled in Lafayette Square, mere blocks from the Capitol, so that President Donald Trump could pose for a photograph in front of St John's Church. In response to Thursday's violence, MSNBC …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Challenges To Our Democracy And The Need To Preserve Human Rights

Live Law

In his book "The Age Rights", Prof. Louis Henkin, a celebrated scholar of International law had claimed that "Human rights is the idea of our time, the only political – moral idea that has received universal acceptance". The disquieting conclusion flows from a distressing institutional response to the egregious infraction of human rights, raising a profoundly important question about the …

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4 years ago

Freedom of speech at universities is not under threat – it is actually thriving

The Independent

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4 years ago

Right To Freedom Of Expression Is The Lifeblood Of A Genuine Constitutional Democracy: South Africa Constitutional Court Reads Down Its Riotous Assemblies Act

Live Law

The Constitutional Court of South Africa has held that the section 18 of the Riotous Assemblies Act is unconstitutional to the extent that it criminalises the incitement of another to commit "any offence".We should always lean in favour of respecting, protecting and promoting rights rather than settle for the easy and more deleterious option of taking them away, the. The …

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4 years ago

Where Free Speech Is A Path To Lose Personal Liberty: After 70 Years Of Constitutional Democracy

Live Law

We celebrate 70 years of Constitutional Governance in India, i.e., Bharath on 26th November 2020 with Damocles sword on free speech that could deprive personal liberty. Arnab Goswami and Republic TV made the Sushant Singh Rajput case into a very big story and it played into Bihar's politics. Supreme Court Bar Association President Dushyant Dave wrote a letter to the …

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Opinion | The right to protest and question: How much is too much?

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