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In a historic judgment the Indian Supreme Court has put the colonial era Sedition Law in India in abeyance.
There are currently 13000 individuals in jails under this law. The Court suspended criminal trials under Section 124A that prosecutes people charged with sedition and has asked that this (...)
Iklakh Rahim Shaikh, who spent time with the Jesuit priest in Taloja jail, says while “VIP prisoners” get access to all kinds of facilities, prisoners like Swamy are denied even the most basic rights.
Mumbai: A pretrial detainee at the Taloja central prison in the outskirts of Mumbai, who spent (...)
In the early hours of October 15, Lakhbir Singh, a 35-year old labourer from the Mazhabi Sikh community (Dalits who converted to Sikhism), was brutally tortured and murdered at the protest site at Singhu border near Delhi.
It has been alleged that Lakhbir Singh had attempted to steal the holy (...)
Leaked list of potential surveillance targets indicates attempt to keep tabs on critics of government policy.
New Delhi: The telephone numbers of an anti-caste leader and several prominent activists are part of a leaked database accessed by the Pegasus Project which includes individuals (...)
Tech giants like Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian climate activists.
The bank of cameras that camped outside Delhi’s sprawling Tihar jail was the sort of media frenzy you would expect to await a prime minister caught in an (...)
The Wire has put together a list of cases where activists and journalists arrested in the past years have struggled either in securing regular hearings, or in having their basic human rights protected, or both.
New Delhi/Mumbai: On September 7, following sustained interrogation at the National (...)
Using identically worded ’confessions’ of students in custody, the police have named renowned economist Jayati Ghosh, DU professor Apoorvanand, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav and documentary filmmaker Rahul Roy in a chargesheet.
New Delhi: In (...)
Narendra Modi’s government is clamping down on political dissent as part of its Hindu-nationalist project. The Indian authorities have used bogus charges of “terrorism” and “conspiracy” to keep critical intellectuals locked up for years at a time.
India is commonly referred to as the world’s (...)
They cannot fight her in court, so they are calling her a Maoist. They don’t have any real evidence against her, so they are converting the process itself into punishment.
Exactly two years ago, Sudha Bharadwaj was arrested in the infamous Bhima Koregaon case.
It is very painful for me to read (...)
A report on the history and present day reality of police violence in India.
On Friday the 19th of June in Sathankulam, a town in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, police arrested two men. P. Jeyaraj, 59, and his son Bennicks, 31, were accused of keeping their small mobile phone (...)
Several internationally renowned jurists, scholars, activists, artists and acclaimed public figures have already signed this statement, including Justice Madan B. Lokur, Pranab Bardhan, Arjun Appadurai, Sheldon Pollock, Barbara Harriss White, Patricia Jeffery, James Manor, Ashutosh Varshney, (...)
Indian police are forcing telecom providers to provide blanket access to everybody’s telephone records. Politically motivated surveillance is increasing at an alarming rate.
Raising questions of surveillance and alleged violation of user privacy guidelines mandated by the Supreme Court, the (...)
The Adityanath government promulgated the ordinance a day before the high court’s deadline to remove the ‘name and shame’ posters.
New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government has promulgated a new ordinance granting wide powers to a new claims tribunal for collecting compensation from people accused (...)
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) firmly condemns a recent increase in attempts in several Indian states to prosecute journalists for allegedly participating in “revolutionary” activities, and calls on the courts to dismiss these absurd charges.
The latest targets include Nellutla Venugopal Rao, a (...)
We, in the women’s movement, state our strong and unequivocal protest against the FIR registered by the CBI against Lawyers’ Collective, in which they have clearly targeted Senior Advocates Indira Jaising and Anand Grover for their work as lawyers representing human rights defenders.
Their track (...)
People’s Union for Civil Liberties is shocked at the lodging of an FIR against the Lawyers Collective, its President and senior lawyer, Anand Grover and other office bearers by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). We condemn this vindictive and utterly unjustified act against this well (...)
THE Lawyers Collective (“LC”) and its Trustees have express shock and outrage at the action of the CBI in registering an FIR against them, describing it as an attempt by the government to silence them for the cases and issues that they have taken up and continue to take up since 2016.
“The FIR (...)
The following article appeared as the Cover Story of the monthly Caravan Magazine of May 2019.
What makes India so distinct? Clearly no other country matches the scale of its religious, linguistic and ethnic diversity. India’s racial heterogeneity is exceeded by only a handful of West European (...)
Going back on its promise made two years ago, Kerala’s ruling Left Front does not intend to review charges under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) slapped on scores of social and political activists since 2007, a Right to Information (RTI) application seems to have revealed.
In late (...)
Charity’s bank accounts frozen after investigators search Bangalore headquarters
Amnesty International has condemned what it described as an “assault on civil society” in India after its office in the south of the country was raided by tax authorities.
Amnesty India’s bank accounts have been (...)
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