Media Reports on Violation of Freedom of Association and Assembly
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No. Links Details Date Year State Mobile Internet services were cut off in Arunachal Pradesh 1 https://www.telegraphindia.com/1160812 since two days after feared law and order situation in the /jsp/frontpage/story_101982.jsp#.WPRk2 state's capital following the suicide of former chief 12th Arunachal PmGPIV minister Aug 2016 Pradesh Mobile and broadband internet services were disconnected from 15th October to prevent misuse of social media http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/new platforms due to violent communal clashes in the area. 2 s/politics-and-nation/communal-tension- They were restored in Bhojpur on 18th October, 2016, grips-6-bihar- whereas East Champaran was connected back to internet districts/articleshow/54867746.cms on 20th October, 2016. 15thOct 2016 Bihar http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pa Due to communal clashes in the Saran district after a video tna/Section-144-imposed-internet- of the desecration of Hindu deities went viral on social 3 banned-in-Saran-after-deity-desecration- media, all internet services were shut down in the district video-goes- under Section 144 of CrPC on 6th August, 2016 to prevent viral/articleshow/53571544.cms spread of rumours. 6th Aug 2016 Bihar http://indianexpress.com/article/india/indi 4 a-news-india/gujarat-curfew-imposed-in- Mobile Internet services suspended in Ahmedabad, mehsana-as-patels-rally-turns-violent- Mehsana, Surat and Rajkot, after a call to court arrest 17th lalji-patel-injured-2757681/ given by Patidar leaders turned violent. April 2016 Gujarat District administration in Mahsana has ordered ban on 5 http://deshgujarat.com/2016/02/26/prohib using mobile internet and social networking sites under itory-orders-and-mobile-internet-ban-in- section 144 of the IPC and to hold a Patidar Women's mahesana-on-february-28/ conference 26th Feb 2016 Gujarat The mobile internet services have been blocked for four 6 http://zeenews.india.com/news/india/mob hours across Gujarat to prevent misuse of cell phones ile-internet-services-blocked-in-gujarat- during Revenue Talatis (Accountants) Recruitment Exam know-why_1860264.html in the state. 28th Feb 2016 Gujarat The Rajkot administration banned mobile internet services in the district, ahead of the third India versus South Africa 7 http://indianexpress.com/article/india/indi One-day International, after Patel quota stir leader Hardik a-news-india/mobile-internet-services- Patel threatened to stage a protest at the Khanderi stadium banned-in-rajkot-as-patidar-threat-looms/ during the match. 17th Oct 2015 Gujarat Mobile internet services were suspended in Godhra for a 8 http://indianexpress.com/article/india/guj period of 24 hours, after a derogatory message against arat/gujarat-internet-services-in-godhra- Islam made rounds on the mobile social application 28th suspended-for-24-hours/ WhatsApp as a precautionary measure. Sept 2015 Gujarat http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation 9 /Hardik-Arrested-in-Surat-Mobile- Internet- The Gujarat state administration banned mobile internet 19th Banned/2015/09/19/article3036722.ece services to curb spread of rumours. Sept 2015 Gujarat Internet services were blocked in Navsari district of south 10 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/su Gujarat as a precautionary action prior to the Reservation rat/Internet-banned-in-Navsari-from- Quota Rally organized by Patidar Anantmat Andolan 12th midnight/articleshow/48935102.cms Samiti (PAAS). Sept 2015 Gujarat Police lifted the ban on mobile internet, social media and http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.c SMS services in the wake of violence during the Patel stir 11 om/2015-09- in various parts of State. It said that the ban was to prevent 02/news/66144045_1_statewide-ban- anti-social elements from using the social media platform 25th mobile-internet-social-media to spread rumours. Aug 2015 Gujarat With groups of the Jat community starting their reservation agitation, the district administration in Jhajjar has stopped 12 http://indianexpress.com/article/india/jat- all mobile Internet services, including 2G, 3G, 4G, voice agitations-mobile-internet-services- calls and GPRS, SMS services and bulk messages blocked-in-jhajjar-4498224/ provided on mobile networks in Jhajjar 29th Jan 2017 Haryana http://www.hindustantimes.com/india- news/jat-stir-amid-push-for-digital-india- 13 internet-services-suspended-in-haryana- Haryana government has banned shut down the internet districts/story- services for maintance of law and order due to the ongoing qJd3T25cra1KiShqKN5HeO.html Jat agitation 19th Feb 2017 Haryana 14 http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/high- Internet services and bulk messages have been stopped in alert-in-haryana-ahead-of-jat-protests- 15 districts till 9 am on 19th March 2017 in Haryana due to 18th internet-stopped-in-15-districts-1671102 jat agitation March 2017 Haryana Internet services of 2G, 3G, 4G and GPRS would remain 15 http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/harya suspended for 24 hours to check the misuse of social media na/internet-services-suspended-in- – from 5 pm on February 25 to 5 pm on February 26 sonepat/369471.html within the revenue limits of the Sonepat District. 25th Feb 2017 Haryana Mobile Internet was suspended in districts of Rohtak, 16 http://www.ptinews.com/news/8352337_ Bhiwani, Hisar, Sonipat, and Panipat starting 31st January, Jat-stir-enters-third-day--remains- 2017 due to the ongoing Jat agitations in various parts of peaceful.html the state. 31st Jan 2017 Haryana 17 http://indianexpress.com/article/india/indi Mobile internet services suspended at many places in a-news-india/jat-reservation-agitation- Haryana for possible renewal of the Jat quota agitation that 18th mobile-internet-haryana/ had led to widespread violence. March 2016 Haryana Mobile internet services were suspended by Rohtak administration in Rohtak and Jhajjar following violent 18 http://indianexpress.com/article/india/indi protests by Jats in Haryana demanding reservation in a-news-india/rohtak-jat-reservation- government jobs and educational institutions under OBC mobile-internet-blocked-haryana/ category. 19th Feb 2016 Haryana http://indianexpress.com/article/india/indi 19 a-news-india/haryana-jat-quota-agitation- sonipat-mobile-internet-service-banned- Officials issued order banning mobile internet service in 2835078/ the district in view of Jat agitation. 4th June 2016 Haryana http://indianexpress.com/article/india/indi 20 a-news-india/jat-reservation-live-updates- Internet services blocked in some parts of Haryana to protest-haryana-hisar-rohtak-jind- check rumour & false publicity on security arrangements ambala-2835462/ to deal with Jat agitation followed by tensions in the state. 5th June 2016 Haryana https://www.thequint.com/india/2017/04/ Internet services will remain suspended in the entire 21 09/internet-services-in-kashmir-to-be- Kashmir valley till conclusion of the by poll for Anantnag suspended-separatists-call-for-two-day- Lok Sabha seat on 12 April, official sources said on 10th Jammu & shutdown Sunday in Srinagar. April 2017 Kashmir Mobile internet services were suspended and imposed http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/ha restrictions in parts of Jammu & Jammu & Kashmir to 22 ndwara-firing-mobile-internet-services- prevent escalation of protests triggered after security forces suspended-in-Jammu & Kashmir/story- fired at a group protesting the alleged molestation of a 14th Jammu & iPQHs3vdmiWx7w0uCGK8NJ.html school girl by an Indian Army soldier. April 2016 Kashmir After the disconnect from mobile internet services since 9th July, 2016, broadband internet services were also suspended in the Jammu & Kashmir valley on 13th 23 http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report- August, 2016 as a precautionary measure to prevent kashmir-unrest-broadband-internet- rumour mongering due to unrest between the protestors 13th Jammu & services-suspended-2244766 and the security forces. Aug 2016 Kashmir http://indianexpress.com/article/india/indi Due to bandhs being declared in the Chenab valley to show 24 a-news-india/internet-services- solidarity with protests being undertaken by Jammu & suspended-in-jammu-amid-mounting- Kashmiris, mobile internet services were suspended in Jammu & tension-in-chenab-valley-2954958/ Jammu region on 5th August, 2016. 5th Aug 2016 Kashmir Jammu & Kashmir unrest has been met with a complete blackout of information both offline and online, Facebook has been actively removing any content relating to the 25 https://www.theguardian.com/technology slain rebel Burhan Wani’s funeral or any post that stands in /2016/jul/19/facebook-under-fire- solidarity with his movement, Jammu & Kashmiri bloggers censoring-Jammu & Kashmir-posts- living and posting from America and UK are facing the Jammu & accounts same. 19th Jul 2016 Kashmir http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/kas The Government has reduced the bandwidth of broadband. 26 hmir/kashmir-unrest-broadband-slow- Due to this internet in Jammu & Kashmir is working in Jammu & subscribers-irked/224220.html very low speed 29th Jul 2016 Kashmir 27 http://indianexpress.com/article/india/indi Following the killing of Burhan Wani, Jammu & Kashmir a-news-india/mobile-internet-services- valley experienced a suspension of mobile internet services Jammu & suspended-in-kashmir-2902579/ to check the spread of rumours by anti-social elements. 9th Jul 2016 Kashmir http://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes. All private telecom operators in Jammu and Kashmir have 28 com/news/private-telecom-firms-bsnl- been asked to suspend their services