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Sri Lanka on trial, but case against India

Anahita Mukherji, TNN | Mar 25, 2012, By giving me electric shocks, by stripping me naked, or by brutally assaulting me and inserting stones in my rectum, will the problem of Naxalism end? When I was being stripped, I felt someone should… Continue Reading →

JOINT STATEMENT of Srilankan Human Rights Defenders

Dear Friends,   Greetings from HRDA!   We would like to share with you the Joint Statement of three Sri Lankan human rights defenders Messrs. Sunila Abeysekara, Nimalka Fernando and Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, who have come most under attack by… Continue Reading →

Open Letter to Naveen Patnaik from Korean Human rights groups

The Chief Minister of Odisha State, Naveen Pat naik  Bhubaneswar-751001. Odisha, India March 23, 2012  We -human rights, labor, and civic organizations in Korea– are writing to you with our deep concern regarding the current attacks continuously made to villagers who… Continue Reading →

Letter by Maharashtra Prisoners going on Hunger Strike ( English Translation )

Today, 23rd March, day of hanging of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukdev were hanged in jail by the British, is being observed by a day-long hunger strike by over 200 `political prisoners‘ in various jails in Maharashtra, including the Angela… Continue Reading →

Custody Deaths in Kerala: A Study from Post-mortem Data in Thrissur Medical College

By: Hithesh Sanker T S, Praveenlal Kuttichira Vol XLVII No.12 March 24, 2012 Though there are reports  pointing to the magnitude of the  problem, there has been no study  conducted on the nature of deaths that have taken place in… Continue Reading →

Girl, 19, raped by dad for 5 years, pregnant

Mar 21, 2012,  TNN In Nagpur a 50-year-old labourer named as Kishore Agrawal was taken into custody for raping his 19-year-old daughter from the past five years.At presesnt the girl is now two months pregnant, which brought this worst act… Continue Reading →

There’s no escape from the corporations that run India

Arundhati Roy, in Guardian Domestic mega-corporations’ tentacles extend into every aspect of Indian life – but no one dares speak out against them Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, is personally worth $20bn. He holds a majority controlling share in Reliance… Continue Reading →

The illegitimate children of the Republic

Javed Iqbal | Monday, March 19, 2012, DNA Torture has long been employed by well-meaning, even reasonable people armed with the sincere belief that they are preserving civilisation as they know it. Aristotle favoured the use of torture in extracting… Continue Reading →

Free Waqar Now

  Dear all We had started an  e-petition  addressed to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to take up the case of this Kashmiri student, Waqar  and many like him lamguishing in priosn, at ipetition website, but our petition was… Continue Reading →

How long will the 6000 Jharkhandi Adivasis languish in jail?

By- Stan Swamy Most of the arrests are in violation of SC decisions “Mere membership of a banned organisation will not make a person a criminal … Supreme Court on 3rd February 2011 (CRIMINAL APPEAL NOs. 889 OF 2007) “Mere… Continue Reading →

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