The Latest Breaking News from Siddique Kappan

The Supreme Court has sought the Uttar Pradesh government’s response to a petition filed by Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan seeking relaxation of a bail condition in a UAPA case that requires him to report to the state’s Hathras police station every Monday, Livelaw reported. 

At about 5 pm today, while the temperature in Delhi touched 37 degrees Celsius, the open space on the ground floor of Delhi’s Press Club of India thronged with people. They’d all turned up to attend “Freedom of Expression in Today’s India” in solidarity with NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha.

Hardly anyone in India, even in Maharashtra, would have heard of a 48-year-old journalist called Shashikant Warishe. On February 6, when Warishe was filling petrol in his two-wheeler in Rajapur, he was “mowed” down, according to newspaper reports, by a vehicle driven by Pandharinath Amberkar. Warishe died the next day…

Muslim reporter Siddique Kappan had been charged under draconian anti-terrorism laws

Siddique Kappan, who spent 28 months in jail, was charged under anti-terror laws for reporting on a gang-rape case.

“I have come out of jail after 28 months. I want to thank the media for supporting me. False allegations were put against me. I am happy to be out now,” Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan told news agency ANI after he walked out of prison on Thursday.

A sessions court in Lucknow on Wednesday signed the release orders in Siddique Kappan's bail case, a month after the journalist was granted bail by the Allahabad High Court in a PMLA case.

The Editors body urges the government to scrap the proposal saying it ‘will result in the censorship of the press’.

Three days after he was granted bail by the Allahabad High Court in a case filed against the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, journalist Siddique Kappan remains in jail.