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Today, join us in breaking the silence, standing with Adivasis and demanding justice!
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #AdivasiLivesMatter #HumanRights #ClimateJustice #OperationKagar #FreeIndigenousDefenders #Bastar #India

Today, we do more than honour Indigenous resilience. We demand an end to the systematic persecution of Adivasis, and accountability from the Indian government and security forces.

🛑 What’s more, resistance is met with arbitrary arrest, detention, torture and enforced disappearances. India’s Indigenous peoples are being silenced, dispossessed, and erased. AT TLS we have documented this systematic persecution in our reports: bit.ly/3UiiZHO; bit.ly/3UliTPC ; bit.ly/4mzHex2.

Bastar District, in the state of Chhattisgarh, is now one of the most militarised zones on Earth—villages have become open-air prisons. Women and children are subject to violence. Entire communities live under siege.

To clear the way for extraction, the Indian government has escalated militarised violence. Under the cover of a Maoist counterinsurgency, Adivasis are being arbitrarily arrested & detained, tortured, subjected to sexual violence, forcibly disappeared & executed through extrajudicial killings.

Instead, the Indian government is complicit in corporate land grabs which displace entire communities to make way for extractive industries and mining.

The Indian government has not ratified ILO Convention 169- the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention-and despite constitutional guarantees for Adivasis, does not recognise these communities as indigenous peoples. 2/8

🌍 On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, we raise our voices to remind the world that India’s indigenous Adivasi peoples face systematic persecution. 1/8
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #Adivasis #humanrights
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🚨Introducing our #Migravoice expert Elena Tacchini, part of the advocacy team at The London Story. Besides her research in political violence and hate speech, Elena has a strong passion for justice.

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📰 Read the full article on why Karnataka’s bill is dangerous—and how India can do better:http://bit.ly/46aMhzh

India undoubtedly needs to combat the disinformation epidemic. But criminalised censorship isn't the answer.

❗We need platform accountability, public digital literacy, and independent fact-checking, not jail time for a misquoted tweet.

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Both the #EU and #India are facing a disinformation crisis. However, the EU’s #DSA doesn’t criminalise speech. It builds structural safeguards like risk assessments, transparency, and independent oversight, without making governments the arbiter of truth.

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⚖️ India's own courts have warned against such vague and sweeping laws.

In Shreya Singhal v. Union of India, the Supreme Court held that vague restrictions chill speech and violate constitutional freedoms.

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The bill also prohibits content that "disrespects Sanatan symbols."
❓ But what counts as a Sanatan symbol? Om? The militant Hanuman? A saffron flag?
This vagueness could shield majoritarian politics from any criticism.

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Enforcement would lie with a politically constituted authority chaired by the Minister for Information.

❌ No independent experts

❌ No legal safeguards

Just unchecked discretion.

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#Karnatakamisinformationbill

🏛️ The bill defines “misinformation” so broadly that even partially inaccurate posts or satire taken out of context could lead to jail time of 2–5 years. Yes, just for a post.

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#misinformationbill #freedomofexpression #censorship

Karnataka’s Fake News Bill Is a Tool of Repression Disguised as a Well-Intentioned Legislation Legislations that grant sweeping powers to criminalise speech without clear definitions, independent oversight, or meaningful safeguards risk devaluing legitimate efforts to combat disinformation.

Karnataka’s new draft Misinformation Bill proposes sweeping powers to regulate online "misinformation." Our latest piece in @thewire.in examines how the bill threatens to criminalise dissent and erode free expression.

📰Read our article here:http://bit.ly/46aMhzh
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❗We urge the Commission to build a more democratic, equitable digital space for all.
#NoExemptions #DSA #PlatformAccountability #EqualEnforcement #Hatespeech #Disinformation #OnlineHate #GAADHE #EU #DemocracyOnline

•Fact-check political advertising
•Protect all European users by employing content moderation systems and moderators who have have the linguistic and contextual expertise to moderate minority and diaspora languages.
•Use human content moderation to adequately moderate political figures' speech

📣The EC Must Demand VLOPs:
•Detail how they moderate political figures’ speech & how they are mitigating against the systemic risks which stem from this speech
•Issue updated guidance that political figures and influencers, regardless of their position, are not exempt from content moderation rules.

✊🏽We call on the @ec.europa.eu Commission to recognise that political figures and social media influencers should not remain exempt from content moderation rules.

🚨Currently, political figures & social media influencers are exempt from content moderation rules under vague “public interest” clauses. This dangerous loophole is fuelling hate speech disinformation & violence, undermining elections & eroding global trust in the EU’s digital governance environment.

📢 Today, as part of the Global Alliance Against Digital Hate and Extremism we issued our open letter to President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu & Commissioners @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social @michaelmcgratheu.bsky.social Stéphane Séjourné, @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu & Roberto Viola. Read it: bit.ly/4eBtU8C

🚨 NEW POLL: roughly TWICE as many people in France, Germany & Spain want the EU to break up Big Tech giants, as those who don't.

@ec.europa.eu will soon decide whether to dismantle Google's toxic adtech monopoly. Will it listen to EU citizens and #BreakUpBigTech?

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📢The European Commission is deciding if it will dismantle Google's toxic ad-tech monopoly. In France, Germany & Spain, twice as many people want the EU to #BreakUpBigTech compared to those who don't. @ec.europa.eu @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu European citizens are demanding that you break up Google!

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EDPS Denies Data Transfer to India – The London Story

📖Read our full analysis on this decision and its implications on Indian companies and their future collaborations with EU partners: thelondonstory.org/2025/06/25/e... 5/5

❕Concerns about the DPDPA incl. the amount of power given to the Indian government, the lack of independence of the Digital Protection Board & the act's weakening of user rights. These, together with a landscape of digital repression in India, present a challenge for data sharing 🛜🖥️4/5