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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 (...)
Ghandy has alleged that prison authorities and the police have been ignoring his worsening health condition.
New Delhi: Kobad Ghandy, the imprisoned Maoist ideologue, has said that his health has deteriorated as prison authorities have not followed the doctor’s advice to send him to Ranchi for (...)
We the undersigned wish to place on record our utter disgust, contempt and outrage at the latest in the series of machinations by Republic TV, working to its brief as a propagandist for the ongoing crusade against all those who take public stands in defence of democracy, secularism, human (...)
By branding progressive and activists as “Maoists” or “half-Maoists,” the Indian state not only marginalises its fiercest critics. It also discredits the reformist Dalit and Moslem groups which are allegedly under their influence. Public opinion is manipulated, and police violence finds justification. When the five arrested persons charged with Maoist activities in connection with the Bhima Koregaon violence were brought to the Pune police commissionerate, there was an interesting spectacle. (...)
For all five, who are facing charges under stringent sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, interactions with the police and the state are not new.
Mumbai: On June 6, the Pune police, in a “joint operation” closely coordinated with the police of Nagpur, Mumbai and Delhi, arrested (...)
In the early hours of 7 June three Dalit rights activists, a professor and a social activist from across three cities – Mumbai, Nagpur and Delhi were arrested. They are Surendra Gadling, who is the General Secretary of the Indian Association of People’s Lawyers, Professor Shoma Sen, Head of (...)
In 2003, as part of its anti-Naxal drive, the Maharashtra government began rewarding villages for being ‘Naxal-free’. This process included picking up non-Naxals and making it look like a voluntary ‘surrender’.
Lawari, Gadchiroli (Maharashtra): The 110 kilometre drive from the district (...)
Opponents of the Aadhaar ID card system may be charged with data theft after revealing the many ways the new ID Card and linked bank accounts are used as instruments of state surveillance. India still lacks adequate data security and privacy regulations.
Mumbai: Researchers and journalists who (...)
Tripti Tandon from The Laywers Collective answers questions from Frank Barat about the clampdown on freedom of speech and the silencing of critical voices in India and how this is connected to shrinking space worldwide. Key points from the interview:
Selective targeting, like the recent murder (...)
Dear Friends All, This is a detailed communication to formally update you on the unfortunate situation as I arrived in Banaras yesterday. The CISF personnel received me at the airport. (Security provided as per orders of the Hon SC). Before I knew it, I had been gheraoed (surrounded) by the (...)
1. Statement by NAPM
Those who fear the Power of the Pen took to the Gun. Again !
NAPM strongly condemns the targeted political assassination of senior journalist, editor and activist Gauri Lankesh
Demands time-bound high-level judicial inquiry into the crime and conspiracy
Govt. inaction (...)
Gauri Lankesh: ‘Intolerant Voices Find Strength in our Silence’
A firebrand in the tradition of her father, she was vocal on secularism, the rights of Dalits, the downtrodden and women.
From left to right: Narendra Dabholkar (murdered, 2013), Govind Pansare (murdered, 2015), M.M. Kalburgi (...)
Gauri Lankesh was the editor of Lankesh Patrike, a weekly Kannada tabloid magazine, and was a known critic of the Hindutva brigade.
Gauri Lankesh
HIGHLIGHTS
1 Gauri Lankesh was victim of several defamation suits
2 Her writings had attracted the ire of right-wing brigade
3 Rationalist (...)
Radical Socialist condemns the violence unleashed by the West Bengal Government in the Darjeeling Hills, the wanton state murder of agitators, and the fraudulent charge of terrorism brought against the agitators. The struggle for Gorkhaland is not a struggle by just one party (GJMM) for its (...)
BANGALORE, India — Among their common traits, illiberal strongmen share a virulent mistrust of civil society. From Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia to Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey, illiberal governments regularly use imprisonment, threats and nationalist language to repress nongovernmental (...)
IN SOLIDARITY WITH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS OF JNU - NEW DELHI UNIVERSITY, INDIA
STAND WITH JNU
The Hindu-Right government of India identifies the nation with its Hindu majority and imposes the domination of Hinduism over all citizens of other denominations and “lower” castes.
Over the past few (...)
STOP HARASSMENT OF DELHI UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS
We the undersigned condemn the ongoing harassment of senior professors of Delhi University Dr. Ali Javed, Prof Nirmalangshu Mukharji and Dr. Vijay Singh in the name of questioning over a seminar which is construed as an anti national event. These (...)
Indian political culture sits atop a fine edged blade. Pushing down on it is the Extreme Right, whose political wing – the BJP – is currently in power. Intolerance is the order of the day. India’s celebrated Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen recently said, “India is being turned intolerant. (...)
Press Statement by People’s Union For Civil Liberties (Delhi unit)
[12 February 2016]
PUCL,Delhi condemns the action of Delhi Police in arresting JNUSU President on charges of sedition
It is shocking that the Delhi Police has arrested the President of the Jawahar Lal Nehru University Students (...)
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