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‘The arrests of Sanatan Sanstha members for committing murder and stockpiling explosives with the alleged intent of committing mass murder must be embarrassing to a majoritarian government,’ notes Devangshu Datta. The great Jadugar K Lal once told me that stage… Continue Reading →
On Friday, the Supreme Court reserved its verdict in the case challenging the arrest of activists and lawyers in connection with the Bhima Koregaon violence. The matter was heard by a Bench of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkarand DY Chandrachud…. Continue Reading →
Human rights activists’ arrest: Will this be another case of justice delayed? KAMAL MITRA CHENOY A number of severe laws have been existing in the annals of Indian politics and society. We often fail to assess them. For… Continue Reading →
After 15 Months in Jail, The Dalit rights activist, accused in the 2017 violence in Saharanpur and booked under the NSA, was to be released on November 1. Credit: Citizens for Justice and Peace Chandrashekhar was booked for his alleged… Continue Reading →
Today, on 13th September, the martyrdom day of the great revolutionary Jatin Das, who sacrificed his life while on hunger strike for the political rights of the prisoners, 6 political prisoners in Yerwada jail have gone on a… Continue Reading →
The annual report from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres included allegations of ill-treatment, surveillance, criminalisation and public stigmatisation campaigns targeting victims and human rights defenders in the countries. FILE PHOTO: Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres addresses the United… Continue Reading →
They survived the bloody riots in September, but the winter chill seems determined to do some real harm to over 50,000 people displaced during the Muzaffarnagar riots and now living in dozen-odd relief camps. One of these – Malakpur… Continue Reading →
Arresting activists is an attack on dissent in keeping with UAPA’s history On August 28, the Pune police mounted raids across several cities,taking into custody five civil liberties activists, invoking that dreaded anti-terror law, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act… Continue Reading →
The chain of arrest, custody, and remand must be linked only by due process The power of arrest is an extraordinary one, conferred on the police to be employed with discretion and deliberation, not as a tool of oppression and… Continue Reading →
This piece comments on the Bhima Koregaon arrests, the multitude of problems with the UAPA as well as its empirically evident history of sinister targeting of those defending the powerless against State excesses. UAPA criminalises ideology and association. By virtue… Continue Reading →