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IANS The Hindu “Police forces have to be disciplined and the only way that is possible is by giving out exemplary punishments to the guilty police officers and only then will such cases reduce,” Satyabrata Pal said. File Photo: Rajeev Bhatt… Continue Reading →
#India – Irom Sharmila said in 2011 – ‘I don’t want to be a martyr’, are you Listening ? #Vaw #AFSPA
Sunday , January 2 , 2011, Telegraph Irom Sharmila Chanu, Manipur’s Iron lady, is in love. The woman who has been on a fast for the last 10 years to get the government to repeal the controversial Armed Forces Special… Continue Reading →
NEW DELHI: The detention of Irom Sharmila Chanu, an activist from Manipur, for close to 13 years for her prolonged hunger strike is a continuing reminder of India‘s intolerance to dissent, Amnesty International India said on Tuesday. “Irom Sharmila… Continue Reading →
By India Against Fascism The systematic use of gang-rape as a weapon occurred in the Surat riots after the Babri Masjid demolition, and an ugly innovation was the videotaping of the gang-rapes. This was not a case of some random… Continue Reading →
October 2, 2013 Article on Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Nagaland by CHONCHUIRINMAYO LUITHUI received via Repeal AFSPA list My father was picked up from home by the Indian Army late one evening, tortured till dawn, he was pushed down… Continue Reading →
SANGEETHA BAROOAH PISHAROTY, The Hindu A file photo of a Naga woman selling deer meat and rare species of wild birds in a local market in Dimapur, Monalisa, Only woman to be editor, publisher and proprietor of a daily newspaper… Continue Reading →
The Bengal-Network organised a screening of ‘A letter to my daughter’, a documentary by Soumitra Dasdidar, on June 20, 2013. The screening was attended by some 45 people from different walks of life. The film was made some… Continue Reading →
By ET Bureau | 24 Jul, 2013, , T K Arun Scrap the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), not only to resolve the conflicts in Jammu and Kashmir and the north-east but also as part of reversing… Continue Reading →
July18, BS Rights organisation People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) today demanded withdrawal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act from the states and urged the Supreme Court to declare it unconstitutional. “In view of the latest report of abuse of the AFSPA, the… Continue Reading →
NEW DELHI, July 17, 2013 Sandeep Joshi, The Hindu ‘Armed forces were indulging in gross violation of human rights’ Once again highlighting the rampant misuse of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act or AFSPA, a Supreme Court-appointed Judicial Commission has noted… Continue Reading →