free speech

Journalists On Trial
A SAMDEN-Himal initiative to track legal attacks on journalists and media groups in Southasia.
SAMDEN and Himal Southasian | May 03, 2019


Good press, bad decision
Inter Press Service, the award, and the Bangladesh PM.
Chhetria Patrakar | Sep 22, 2018

Bullying the republic
What the recent clampdown on educational institutions in India tells us about the ruling dispensation.
Puja Sen | Feb 16, 2016

Southasia’s free speech conundrum
How the misuse of social and mainstream media contribute to misperceptions and violence.
Mirza Sadaqat Huda | Feb 09, 2015

Between free speech and hate speech
Understanding the impact of speech, particularly on marginalised groups, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
Maija Liuhto | Jan 23, 2015

Drawing a line: Pakistan’s jihad against the internet
Urooj Zia examines Pakistan’s cascading clamp-down on its citizens’ access to the internet and the worrying precedents it sets