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India: Drop false charges against those protesting against Vedanta’s land acquisition in Orissa and release them

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL   PUBLIC STATEMENT AI index: ASA 20/004/2012 25 January 2012 Amnesty International urges authorities in the eastern Indian state of Orissa to immediately release 47 villagers of Rengopalli who were arrested on 21 January for peacefully protesting the… Continue Reading →

जैसे मेरे पास भी एक योनि है…सोनी सोरी

Listen to the poem on Soni Sori here जज साहब, मेरे साल तेंतीस होने को आये लेकिन, मैंने कभी कारतूस नहीं देखी है ! सिर्फ बचपन में फोड़े दीपावली के पटाखों की कसम, आज तक कभी छुआ भी नहीं है… Continue Reading →

Gallantry Award for Sexual Torture

 The Victim of Sexual Torture Soni Sori, an adivasi school teacher and warden from Chhattisgarh, is currently facing trial in Chhattisgarh. Accused as a Maoist supporter, despite evidence of her having being framed as one in several cases, she has… Continue Reading →

IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE-Gallantry Award for Sexual Violence ?

Women’s Groups Condemn President’s Medal to Ankit Garg, Soni Sori’s Torturer We are deeply shocked and outraged by the conferring of the President’s Police Medal for Gallantry on Ankit Garg, Superintendent of Police, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh. Ankit Garg has been named… Continue Reading →

Republic Day gallantry award to alleged torturer of Soni Sori!

      Kamayani Bali  Mahabal says she is ashamed that the nation is giving gallantry award to a police officer Ankit Garg on the occassion of our Republic Day who is accused of torturing a tribal woman and the… Continue Reading →

S.P Ankit Garg gets gallantry awards- BLACK REPUBLIC DAY

    January 25, 2012 Anti-Naxal and counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir [ Images ] and the northeast have drawn the maximum number of gallantry awards for police and paramilitary forces this year. As a total of 97 police… Continue Reading →

SC pulls up Centre for prolonged detention of Pak prisoners

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Press Trust Of India    The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the Union government for prolonged incarceration of several Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails despite their having completed their sentences. “There is total inaction and… Continue Reading →

India & the sex selection conundrum

Published: Hindu, January 24, 2012 Farah Naqvi, A. K. Shiva Kumar Let us agree to go beyond billboard exhortations to ‘love the girl child.’ What was our immediate response to further decline in the child sex ratio in India? Within… Continue Reading →

Eminent citizens and groups write an open letter to the Honourable Chief Justice of India

    Dear friends, As you are aware, Soni Sori, an adivasi school teacher and warden from Chhattisgarh, is currently facing trial in Chhattisgarh. Accused as a Maoist supporter, despite evidence of her having being framed as one in several… Continue Reading →

The Pereira and the Ferreira: A tale of two Bandra boys

G Sampath  | Saturday, January 21, 2012 One guy killed seven people and spent one month in jail. Another killed nobody and spent 56 months in jail. As they say, we are all equal before the law, aren’t we. The… Continue Reading →

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