Siddique Kappan

Journalists in Delhi stage protest demanding release of Siddique Kappan

Members of the Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ), PCI and the Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) joined the protest

Hathras case: UP Police files 5,000-page charge-sheet against journalist Siddique Kappan, seven others

The police claimed Kappan was arrested because he was going to Hathras, where a 19-year old Dalit girl was gang-raped and murdered, "to breach the peace" as part of a "conspiracy"

SC grants five-day interim bail to journalist Siddique Kappan to visit ailing mother in Kerala

Kappan was arrested on 5 October while on the way to Hathras, home to the young Dalit woman who died after being gang-raped, allegedly by four upper-caste men

Siddique Kappan was going to Hathras under the 'garb of journalism' to disturb law & order, UP govt tells SC

Meanwhile, CJI SA Bobde raised concerns over misreporting in the case and asked the petitioner Kerala Union of Working Journalists' to file a rejoinder to the UP govt's affidavit while postponing the hearing in the case by a week

Bail for some, jail for others: Understanding the skewed reasoning of the apex court's judicial process

While it is encouraging that the grant of bail has been prioritised in some cases, a number of other journalists are languishing in prison, with the top court doing little about their plight

SC issues notice to Uttar Pradesh govt on plea against Kerala journalist's arrest on way to Hathras

The court asked the counsel for the Kerala Union of Working Journalists why it had not approached the Allahabad High Court and said it will keep the matter for Friday

Mathura court to hear bail plea on 4 Nov of two people arrested for sedition while travelling to Hathras

Uttar Pradesh Police had arrested Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan, and three other people under UAPA and the IT Act, while they were travelling to Hathras to meet a gangrape victim's kin

SC tells Kerala journalist arrested enroute Hathras to move Allahabad HC for bail, adjourns case for four weeks

The apex court was hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by the Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) against the arrest of journalist Siddique Kappan.

Hathras case: UP Police arrests Kerala scribe, three others enroute victim's village; journalists' body moves SC

The police claimed that all four people had 'links' with the Popular Front of India. However, Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) has said that journalist Siddique Kappan had gone to Hathras to cover the present situation in the area