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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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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