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Media Reports on Violation of Freedom of Expression Sl. Date of Village/City or Year Link Description No. Incident State The Andhra Pradesh police have arrested a Hyderabad- based techie on charges of posting objectionable content http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra- 21th on social media site, Facebook. The content, posted on 1 2017 pradesh/man-arrested-for-fb-post-against- Andhra Pradesh April the FB page “Political Punch”, reportedly has chandrababu-naidu/article18184444.ece objectionable pictures with the building of the Legislative Council at Velagapudi in the backdrop 20 days after he was detained by the Andhra police for posting ‘derogatory’ cartoons of Chief Minister N http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/andhra- Chandrababu Naidu on a social networking site, political pradesh/2017/may/10/ravi-kiran-now-held-under- satirist Potuluri Ravi Kiran was arrested in Vizag on 2 May-18 2017 Andhra Pradesh scst-atrocity-act-after-facebook-post-on-andhra- Tuesday over a “defamatory” post on Dalit TDP MLA pradesh-cm-1603202.html Vangalapudi Anitha on his Facebook page Political Punch.info. He was booked under the SC and ST (Prevention Of Atrocities) Act, 1989 A Bengaluru-based software professional Ippala Ravindra was arrested and interrogated by the police of SC and ST http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/visakhapatn atrocities cell in the port city on Wednesday for alleged 3 Apr-11 2017 am/techie-arrested-for-posting-comments-against- Andhra Pradesh posting objectionable comments on social media site tdp-mla-on-social-media/articleshow/58722913.cms Facebook against TDP MLA Vangalapudi Anita of Payakaraopeta. A court in Diphu has issued a bailable arrest warrant http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/assam against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a 4 May-11 2017 -court-issues-bailable-arrest-warrant-against- Assam defamation case arising out of his tweet on the Prime kejriwal/article17922012.ece Minister’s educational qualification. A resident of Biswanath Chariali of Assam, named Parimal Gore was arrested for posting `offensive’ comment about Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and https://www.northeasttoday.in/man-arrested-for- 5 Apr-10 2017 the influential student organisation All Assam Students Assam criticising-assam-cm-in-social-media/ Union (AASU). He has been charged with multiple Indian Penal Code sections of 120 (B), 153 (a) (b) 505 (2) for criminal conspiracy and spreading hatred. A human rights activist from Jorhat, Assam, has been threatened on social media with death, rape and acid https://thewire.in/122670/bondita-acharya-beef- 6 Apr-29 2017 attacks – allegedly by members of the Bajrang Dal – for Assam bajrang-dal/ condemning the arrest of three people for possessing beef. http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/assam- A senior Assam Police officer was arrested on Saturday 7 Apr-22 2017 police-officer-arrested-for-facebook-slur-on-woman- for a Facebook post maligning a woman legislator of the Assam bjp-legislator/story-uP6kVviIrSeFkQi6lEq36I.html ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) http://www.hindustantimes.com/music/one- Assam police arrested a youth for giving death threat on arrested-for-giving-death-threat-to-singer-zubeen- social media to popular singer Zubeen Garg for 8 May-14 2017 Assam garg-on-facebook/story- performing Hindi songs during Bohag Bihu celebrations in mHfadQev8T9B0HTE2HuR9M.html the state Assam’s Hamren police arrested a youth following his http://indiablooms.com/ibns_new/news- suspicious post against Karbi Anglong Autonomous 9 Mar-30 2017 details/N/31151/youth-arrested-for-facebook-post- Assam Council (KAAC) Chief Executive member (CEM) Tuliram against-kaac-cem.html Rongang in social media The government informed Parliament on Wednesday http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/have- that it had blocked 3,000 websites which hosted 10 May-02 2017 blocked-3000-porn-websites-government-tells-lok- pornographic content. The ministry said "most of the India sabha/articleshow/57902512.cms child pornographic websites are hosted from outside India" After struggling to enforce ban on social networking sites http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/isps-begin-blocking- and instant messaging applications, the Internet Service 11 Apr-22 2017 Jammu & Kashmir vpns/ Providers (ISPs) have finally started to ban Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) in Kashmir on Government directive. http://www.kashmirlife.net/admin-fb-page- Police have arrested a young man from Budgam in a case 12 Mar-25 2017 Jammu & Kashmir arrested-138598/ of rumour mongering using social networking websites https://thewire.in/118977/congress-politician- Salman Nizami, a senior Congress leader in Kashmir, was 13 May-22 2017 salman-nizami-booked-for-defaming-adityanath-the- issued a defamation notice for being critical of UP’s new Jammu & Kashmir latest-in-a-growing-list-of-offenders/ chief minister Adityanath on Twitter on March 25 Two people were arrested in Jharkhand due to a https://thewire.in/138667/whatsapp-message- 14 Mar-09 2017 circulating WhatsApp messages warning against child Jharkhand turns-tribals-violent-leaves-seven-dead/ kidnappers A city civil court in the southern Indian city of Bangalore https://cpj.org/2017/03/indian-court-orders- ordered the news website The Wire to take down two 15 Mar-22 2017 Karnataka website-to-take-down-two-artic.php articles critical of Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a member of India's upper house of parliament Bengaluru Police has lodged a criminal case against a https://in.news.yahoo.com/bengaluru-woman- 16 May-01 2017 woman for putting up “objectionable” Facebook posts Karnataka booked-putting-objectionable-092440388.html about Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. A 30-year-old has reportedly been arrested in http://www.bgr.in/news/whatsapp-group-admin- Karnataka’s Uttara Kannada district for a circulating a 17 Mar-21 2017 arrested-for-allegedly-circulating-morphed-image- Karnataka derogatory image of PM Narendra Modi on the of-pm-narendra-modi/ WhatsApp group he is an admin of Bengaluru Police lodged a criminal case against a woman http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/03/21/bengalur for making "objectionable posts" on her Facebook page 18 Apr-19 2017 u-woman-booked-for-posting-objectionable- Karnataka which allegedly depicted Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister content-about_a_21904458/ Yogi Adityanath in "poor light." Excise commissioner Rishi Raj Singh has suspended http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvanant Payyanur range assistant excise inspector T V 19 Apr-08 2017 hapuram/excise-officer-suspended-for-fb-post- Ramachandran for posting derogatory comments against Kerala against-cm/articleshow/58258525.cms chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and other ministers in social media groups. http://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/news/india/en A 22-year-old engineering graduate in Idukki district of gineering-graduate-held-for-issuing-death-threat-to- 20 Apr-08 2017 Kerala was arrested for allegedly issuing a 'death threat' Kerala kerala-cm-pinarayi- to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan through Facebook post. vijayan/articleshow/58081061.cms A 22-year-old youth was arrested here for allegedly posting a comment on Facebook against Chief Minister http://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/crime- Pinarayi Vijayan. The arrested is identified as Akhil 21 Mar-08 2017 beat/youth-arrested-for-facebook-post-against-cm- Kerala Krishnan, an RSS activist. His Facebook post, which kerala-cm-1.1856361 carried a picture of Pinarayi, urges a terror outfit to kill the CM http://english.manoramaonline.com/ACP/news/kera A man was arrested by Kerala police for publishing 22 Jan-31 2017 la/facebook-post-mohanlal-antony-perumbavoor- defaming Facebook posts against Malayalam actor Kerala naseeh-ashraf-arrest.html Mohanlal and his aide & producer Antony Perumbavoor The Guruvayur police Monday arrested two youths for http://english.manoramaonline.com/news/kerala/gi allegedly threatening to kill a girl for posting a message 23 Apr-03 2017 rl-facebook-post-death-threat-political-violence- Kerala on her Facebook page condemning politically motivated guruvayur.html murders in Kerala. A 21 year old girl was arrested under the Prevention of http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2 Children against Sexual Offence act (POCSO) for staying 24 Feb-28 2017 017/apr/03/kerala-21-year-old-girl-arrested-for- Kerala with her minor lover at his house in Kottayam district of sexually-assaulting-minor-1589297.html Kerala. A Sub-inspector with AR Camp at Ramavarmapuram, who was also in-charge of the cyber cell, was suspended for putting up a WhatsApp post against the reported http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/in-other- decision of the state government to commute the 25 Oct-16 2017 news/280217/sub-inspector-suspended-for-post-on- Kerala sentence of 1,850 prisoners. The officer Roy C George whatsapp-against-kerala.html had circulated a message along with the paper cutting of a newspaper about the government’s decision to release prisoners before their jail team ended. A woman police officer was suspended for forwarding a http://newsable.asianetnews.tv/south/female-cop- WhatsApp message against Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi 26 Aug-05 2016 Kerala suspended-whatsapp-message-pinarayi-vijayan Vijayan that criticised him in connection with the political murders in Kannur. A police officer belonging to Armed Reserve Camp at Alappuzha in Kerala has been suspended for criticising Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and state police chief on http://newsable.asianetnews.tv/south/police- 27 Mar-30 2016 social media. He had criticised the government and Kerala officer-suspended-for-fb-post authorities for taking action against Kozhikode town Sub- inspector (SI) in connection with a tiff with media persons on the premises of Kozhikode district court A Muslim doctor, Atik Afzal Khan from Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh was arrested under section 505 (2) of the Indian https://www.thequint.com/india/2017/03/29/musli Penal Code and sections of the IT act for posting a photo 28 May-22 2017 Madhya Pradesh m-arrested-in-jhabua-for-facebook-post of a sadhu buying meat on his Facebook page.