An international film festival venue in Kerala on Thursday witnessed a protest seeking the immediate release of journalist Siddique Kappan who has been jailed in Uttar Pradesh for over three months.
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Governments are not benign, and the use of the law and regulatory agencies against inconvenient voices is not new. Although it has become a reflex action for journalists to invoke a comparison with th...
The Supreme Court Monday granted 5-day bail to journalist Siddique Kappan, arrested on his way to Hathras where a young Dalit woman had died after being allegedly gang-raped, to visit his ailing mothe...
Although writing material was available in jail, Punia chose to write notes of his conversations with the inmates on his legs — his way of coming to terms with the trauma he had been through.
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The Kerala Union of Working Journalists has approached the Supreme Court seeking five days’ interim bail for Siddique Kappan to visit his 90-year-old mother who is on her deathbed.
The app...
The Supreme Court on Friday gave permission for the 90-year-old mother of Siddique Kappan, a Malayalam journalist lodged in a Mathura jail on what his family and colleagues say are false terror charge...
Kappan, a native of Vengara in Malappuram, lived in Delhi and worked for the Malayalam news portal azhimukam.com. He is secretary of the Delhi unit of the Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ).
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The additional district and sessions judge-I of Mathura will now hear the case involving Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan and three others, with a court here holding that the chief judicial magistrat...