- cross-posted to:
- wikipedia@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- wikipedia@lemmy.world
The Wikimedia Foundation has suspended access to this page due to an order by the Delhi High Court, without prejudice to the Foundation’s rights. We are pursuing all available legal options.
We remain committed to access to knowledge as a human right. We are working to ensure that everyone can access and share free knowledge on Wikipedia.
In accordance with applicable legal processes, the Wikimedia Foundation filed an appeal before the Supreme Court of India, challenging the takedown order. The appeal was admitted and the Supreme Court issued notice to the concerned parties on March 17, 2025.
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If I’ve understood it correctly, this decision has just been reversed by the Indian court:
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/sc-delhi-hc-order-take-down-page-ani-wikipedia-case-9992611/
The Supreme Court Friday set aside the Delhi High Court’s October 2024 order asking Wikimedia Foundation Inc to take down a page published on Wikipedia, which carried details of the High Court hearing on a defamation complaint filed by news agency ANI against the online encyclopedia, including the comments of the judge.
A bench of Justices A S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan said, “It is not the duty of the court to tell the media to delete this and take that down… Both the judiciary and the media are the foundational pillars of democracy, which is a basic feature of the Constitution”. “For a liberal democracy to thrive, both should supplement each other.”