By Yogesh Sadhwani, Mumbai Mirror | May 21, 2014, 12.28 AM IST Leonard Valdaris, whose son Agnelo (inset) died in police custody, and Agnelo’s friends who were sexually abused by cops Friends of custodial death victim, picked up for minor theft, reveal… Continue Reading →
HARISH NAMBIAR Returned to life But who will compensate the time and honour lost for Nambi Narayanan, Mathew Samuel and Arun Ferreira? Indian criminal law is a colonial relic, with little sympathy for the citizen. We need our own version… Continue Reading →
Out of 779 detainees, only seven have been convicted and sentenced. The US must end this costly disgrace Morris Davis theguardian.com, Wednesday 13 November 2013 12.45 GMT Twelve years ago, on 13 November 2001, President George W Bushsigned an order authorizing the… Continue Reading →
Patiala | Apr 01, 2013, Outlook A six-year-old boy was allegedly singed with cigarette butts and slashed with a shaving blade by his father who inflicted injuries all over his body. The harrowing tale of torture was narrated by the… Continue Reading →
Rosy Sequeira, TNN | Mar 23, 2013, 03.32 AM IST MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Friday pulled up the state government for repeated instances of custodial deaths and asked what it was doing to prevent them. A division bench of Justice A M… Continue Reading →
PCHR Palestinian Centre for Human Rights PRESS RELEASE Ref: 21/2013 Date: 25 February 2013 PCHR calls for investigation into the circumstances of Palestinian detainee’s death in Megiddo Prison in Israel The… Continue Reading →
BY ZEKE JOHNSON Still from Zero Dark Thirty. After seeing the new film Zero Dark Thirty, I think there are three things everyone should know: 1) Zero Dark Thirty is not a documentary. The film’s screenwriter, Mark Boal, said:… Continue Reading →
Shibu Thomas, TNN Feb 15, 2013, T MUMBAI: City police commissioner Satya Pal Singh may not like human rights activists “interfering in cops’ job” but Maharashtra‘s abysmal record of custodial deaths points to the need for stricter enforcement of human rights… Continue Reading →
Ms. Chintamoni Mondal & her son 1 February 2013 To The Chairman National Human Rights Commission Faridkot House Copernicus Marg New Delhi Respected Sir I want to draw your attention on our complaint dated 20.4.2012, about ghastly torture… Continue Reading →
DECEMBER 23, 2012, Kafila.org tags: Delhi rape, violence on women in India by Nivedita Menon Guest post by PRATIKSHA BAXI Delhi has tolerated intolerable forms of sexual violence on women from all backgrounds in public spaces for decades. It is a public secret that… Continue Reading →
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