NEW YORK: A leading human rights group today asked India to repeal the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, impose a moratorium on the death penalty and accept other recommendations of UN member states to address the country’s “most serious human rights… Continue Reading →
DNA Correspondent l Ahmedabad The special judge, who conducted the trial in the Naroda Patia massacre case, criticised the initial investigation in the case that was done by the Naroda police, and also pulled up the then police inspector,… Continue Reading →
Special court said that Maya Kodnani had done nothing to restore peace in the riot-torn Naroda Patia Nikunj Soni l Ahmedabad Special judge Dr Jyotsna Yagnik who conducted the trial in the Naroda Patia murder case, noted in… Continue Reading →
A judge’s obligation to the public starts and ends with his or her analysis of the law, its correct use, not with the preaching of personal beliefs or preferences. Chief Justice S H. Kapadia once said, “High Courts and… Continue Reading →
An all-India fact-finding team of rights activists belonging to the Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations (CDRO) visited the area in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh where 17 adivasis died as a result of firing by CRPF forces on the night of… Continue Reading →
Aug 31, 1956- June 28, 2009 Ram Narayan Kumar, former director of SAFHR’s South Asian Orientation Course in Human Rights and Peace Studies, was the full time Director of the Understanding Impunity project.Kumar had been involved with human rights… Continue Reading →
By Amit Sengupta, in Kindle Magazine This is the memory which moves in the darkness of the corridors and ravaged inner spaces of life and architecture, like a burnt family picture, or the three birds in flight on the… Continue Reading →
source-Amnesty Blog I was woken up yesterday morning by my phone beeping. A text message from Shashikumar, Amnesty India’s programme director: “Supreme Court likely to confirm Ajmal Kasab’s death sentence today”. No surprises there. The death penalty is on the… Continue Reading →
By K.P Sasi 10 August, 2012 Countercurrents.org I met Abdul Nazer Maudany who is an accused in the Bangalore blast case in jail a few months back with friends. What struck me was the peace which flowed in his eyes. At that time… Continue Reading →
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