New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed its anguish over the plight of undertrials and violation of their fundamental rights after they are thrown into prisons that are already “bursting at their seams”. “The laxity with which we throw citizens… Continue Reading →
January 15, 2013, By Michael Edison Hayden, Wall street journal, India Roberto Schmidt/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A man peeked through an opening of a door to a prison ward at the Tihar jail, New Delhi, April 26, 2012. This week, India… Continue Reading →
Edited by Surabhi Malik | Updated: January 08, 2013 13:05 IST, NDTV New Delhi: The Supreme Court today accepted a plea filed by tribal activist Soni Sori and directed the Chhattisgarh government to shift her from a jail in Raipur to… Continue Reading →
Jan 6, 2013, Deccan Herald The rage of the ‘invisible masses,’ is a thread binding all democratic protests and people’s movements across the state. Be it in Konkan or Vidarbha or the deep dry jungles of Gadchiroli, the cries of… Continue Reading →
– By Tariq Abdul Muhaimin12/27/12, Newzfirst In an age where the State defines its role as ‘emancipating’ and ‘empowering’, the plight of several oppressed individuals, some of whom have even succumbed to injuries obtained in the course of their… Continue Reading →
A photograph of Roselyn taken on the day of her arrest by Amirtharaj Stephen photograph. 63-year old J. Roselyn, a mother of three from Idinthakarai, was among the 7 women randomly picked up from the Idinthakarai beach on the police… Continue Reading →
( ABOVE IS THE POSTER MADE BY INMATES Around 50 tribals of Gadchiroli district incarcerated at the Nagpur Central Prison as political prisoners have commenced a serial hunger strike from 10thDecember, International Human Rights Day to 21st December 2012 These tribal prisoners… Continue Reading →
Published: Thursday, Dec 6, 2012, 16:20 IST Place: Cuttack | Agency: PTI The fast-onto-death stir by jail wardens in Odisha entered the fourth day today even as over 50 striking warders were shifted to hospitals after falling ill during their… Continue Reading →
Deepu Sebastian Edmond : IEChaibasa, Thu Nov 29 2012 Six activists of the Jharkhand statehood movement, who were sent to jail on Saturday by a Railway Magistrate in a 1991 case, were on Monday bailed out from the Chaibasa jail. Xavier… Continue Reading →
Ashutosh Bhardwaj, Indian Express Nov 12, 2012 A nationwide health survey in jails has found 80 of Chhattisgarh’s prisoners HIV-positive, out of 13,000-odd tested. Prison authorities insist that the inmates had probably arrived already infected, but health authorities don’t rule… Continue Reading →
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