印度媒体团体向法院表示，印度的隐私法可能导致新闻编辑室关闭。作者：阿迪蒂亚·卡尔拉。新德里，10月27日——印度媒体团体周二向最高法院表示，印度政府的隐私法要求记者在报道他人时征得对方同意，这等同于事前审查，并可能导致新闻编辑室关闭。这启动了对该立法最受关注的挑战。
India's privacy law could shut down newsrooms, media groups tell court By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI, Oct 27 - The Indian government's privacy law, which would require journalists to seek consent from people they write about, amounted to pre-censorship and could lead to newsrooms shutting down, media groups told the Supreme Court on Tuesday, starting the most high-profile challenge against the legislation.
据路透社周一报道，包括亿万富翁穆克什·安巴尼和高塔姆·阿达尼旗下公司在内的21家新闻出版商组成的团体，对总理纳伦德拉·莫迪的隐私法提出挑战，认为该法将践踏调查性报道工作，并允许新德里查明记者的消息来源。
A group of 21 news publishers, including companies owned by billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani, has challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi's privacy law, arguing it would trample upon investigative work and allow New Delhi to identify journalists' sources, Reuters reported on Monday.
数字新闻出版商协会（DNPA）的律师马达维·戈拉迪亚·迪万对法官们说：“这正在改变新闻的全部概念。”
"It is changing the whole concept of what is news," Madhavi Goradia Divan, the lawyer for Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) told the judges.
“如果我们必须请求许可，新闻编辑室将会关闭……那将是一套完整的事前审查制度。”最高法院将该案安排在下个月审理。
"Newsrooms will shut down, if we have to ask for permission...it's then a complete regime of pre-censorship." The Supreme Court posted the case for next month.
这些新闻出版商在本月早些时候提交的一份文件中表示，媒体公司在8月与政府的一次会议上得到了保证，称该法将保护新闻自由，但不像欧盟、新加坡和英国那样为记者提供书面豁免，这令人担忧。
Media companies received assurances in an August meeting with the government that the law would protect press freedom, but not having a written carve-out for journalists like in the European Union, Singapore and Britain was alarming, the news publishers said in a filing earlier this month.