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Scroll.in
April 21, 2018
Right to Information activist and lawyer Aires Rodrigues said that the arrest was “a blatant misuse of political power”. “Silveira's post is in very bad taste, there is no doubt about that,” he said. “But how do you book somebody for an offence he has not committed? The offence of [Section] 505(2) [under whichÃâà...
Crookston Daily Times
April 20, 2018
A Minneapolis freedom-of-information activist has claimed victory in his long-running legal battle to see emails from the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office pertaining to biometric technologies. The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday largely backed Tony Webster, who said the county violatedÃâà...
MinnPost
April 20, 2018
Win for Tony Webster: “Freedom-of-Information Activist Wins Legal Fight with County” [KSTP]. Pretty amazing: “'Hi con gai, how are you doing today?'” [Rochester Post Bulletin]. Fish story: “Minneapolis' Coastal Seafoods is about to get 10 times bigger” [City Pages]. More Whalen news: “Whalen to hireÃâà...
Minnesota Public Radio News
April 19, 2018
A Minneapolis freedom-of-information activist has claimed victory in his long-running legal battle to see emails from the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office pertaining to biometric technologies. The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday largely backed Tony Webster, who said the county violatedÃâà...
The Hindu
April 19, 2018
Shetty, a Right to Information activist and whistleblower, was hacked to death outside his home in Talegaon in January 2010. On October 15, 2009, Shetty had lodged a complaint of massive land grab against 14 people, including Virendra Mhaiskar, chairman and managing director of Mumbai-based IdealÃâà...
KSTP
April 19, 2018
April 18, 2018 03:10 PM. A Minneapolis freedom-of-information activist has claimed victory in his long-running legal battle to see emails from the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office pertaining to biometric technologies. The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday largely backed Tony Webster, who said the county violatedÃâà...
Times of India
April 6, 2018
COIMBATORE: Right to information activists are flaying the city corporation for refusing to reply to RTI applications even months after they are filed. In some cases, despite money was deposited for photocopies, information was not provided, they say. RTI activist Daniel Jesudas had filed an applicationÃâà...
Mail & Guardian
April 3, 2018
I can't imagine what it would mean for SAHA and all the work that's been done, but also what it means for general access to information activists,” Nobukhosi Zulu, coordinator of SAHA's freedom of information programme, said. SAHA had made the access to information requests on behalf of Open Secrets,Ãâà...
Mail & Guardian
March 27, 2018
The conference brought the likes of #ThisFlag Zimbabwean civil rights activist Evan Mawarire, Arab Spring writer and journalist Iyad el-Baghdadi, Eritrean information activist and refugee rescuer Meron Estefanos, and Malawian girls' rights activist Memory Banda among others to speak on their activism andÃâà...
The Wire
March 23, 2018
After maintaining a stony silence for over three months, the ministry finally responded to the issue raised by the Right to Information activist Commodore (retd) Lokesh K. Batra on March 22 and admitted that the data pertained to the Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS). Biometric data wasÃâà...
Times of India
March 22, 2018
Ravindra Nath Guru, managing trustee of the Karnataka Right to Information Activists Forum, said the assistant commissioner (administration), who is PIO for the commissioner's office, recently refused to accept an application and relented only after her superior intervened. “When the cell opened in 2006,Ãâà...
The Hindu
March 20, 2018
A Meghalaya youth leader and Right to Information activist was killed in a coal belt in the hill State's East Jaintia Hills district on Tuesday morning. Police said the body of Poipynhun Majaw, the president of Jaintia Youth Federation (JYF), was found on Rymbai Road near Khliehriat, the headquarters of EastÃâà...
