Free Speech Clamp Down Charge Roils Ashoka University

1,591 views · Published 15 October 2016 · 3:16 · Indexed 25 October 2026

Channel: The Wire · 2016 · News & Politics

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Ashoka University has recently come under the scanner for clamping down on free speech against its students, faculty, and alumni who had signed a petition condemning the violence in Kashmir. The petition clearly stated that it did not express the university's views.

Over the following weeks, two staffers resigned unexpectedly and the university’s decision to moderate its students’ emails has raised concerns about their freedom of speech.

Read more here: http://thewire.in/72818/ashoka-university-cracks-down-on-faculty-who-signed-student-petition-on-jk/

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