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Shehla Masood Case- Saba’s counsel to file contempt case against jail staff

TNN | Jun 1, 2013,    INDORE: A representative of Reliance Communication, Santosh Jadhav appreared before the special CBI court on Friday and got his statements recorded during the hearing on RTI activist Shehla Masood murder case on Friday. Two other witnesses… Continue Reading →

India jail-born man earns bail money, for release of his mother after 19 years #WTF

  By Sanjoy Majumder BBC News, Kanpur Vijay Kumari was unable to post the necessary bail amount of about £120 In a dusty tenement in a crowded neighbourhood in the Indian city of Kanpur, a young man takes out a bright… Continue Reading →

Do not oppose bail of 63 Naxalites, Buch panel to Chhattisgarh

May 8, TNN BHOPAL: Committee set for reviewing the cases ofundertrials languishing in Chhattisgarh jails, has so far recommended the state government that it should not oppose the bail plea of 63Naxalities who have been in jail for more than two years. However, the… Continue Reading →

Tihar’s sinister labyrinths– Torture, custodial deaths, negligence and rampant corruption

 — India’s high security prison has all this and much more reports G Vishnu G Vishnu , Tehelka April 5, 20l  More by the author > Tihar jail. File Photo After 35-year-old Ram Singh, one of the accused in the infamous 16 December… Continue Reading →

Angry Jeetan Marandi vows to continue stir for poor

 Mukesh Ranjan | Ranchi |  Pioneer, April 1, 2013 Aggravated after his release from the jail after five years, Jeetan Marandi is all set to expedite his movement for the cause of the release of thousands of innocent tribal people… Continue Reading →

Political prisoners observe Hunger strike on 23rd March Bhagat Singh’s martyrdom day for ABOLISHMENT OF #Deathpenalty

PRESS RELEASE,  NAGPUR , MARCH 21, 2013 Numerous countries across the world have abolished the death sentence as a form of punishment. However India, claimed repeatedly by its rulers to be a democratic country still retains this inhuman practice and… Continue Reading →

#India- Prisons shut away from all human rights

Hindustan Times New Delhi, February 24, 2013 West Bengal‘s Dum Dum Central Jail could put the notorious Abu Ghraib in a shade going by some of the disturbing incidents which have taken place there recently. A mere request for better… Continue Reading →

US: A nation of inmates? #prison

We examine the impact of America’s high incarceration rate on its penal system and on poor and minority communities. Inside Story Americas Last Modified: 20 Feb 2013 09:52 There are more prisoners in the US than any other nation in the world…. Continue Reading →

PRESS RELEASE- Four anti nuke activists booked under Goondas Act, exonerated by Madras HC

Four persons belonging to Idinthakarai and Koodankulam villages, who had been booked under Goondas Act since September 2012, have been exonerated by the Madras High Court (Madurai bench). In all, six men ranging in age from 23 to 68, were… Continue Reading →

In Tihar, officials feel ‘tinge of sorrow’ #Afzalguru #deathpenalty

10 February 2013 , By Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar , tehelka ‘Al vida’, said Afzal Guru to his executioner, who had himself bid him good bye with the same words a few seconds earlier. And then as the executioner pulled a… Continue Reading →

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