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Pushed Out of Sight: The covert deportation and detention crisis at Assam’s Matia detention centre

CJP Team -
From silent pushbacks to prolonged illegal detentions, India’s handling of Rohingya and other foreign nationals at the Matia detention centre reveals a disturbing erosion of due process, humanitarian obligations, and constitutional safeguards
Hate Speech

FIR meant to fail: MP High Court calls out state’s attempt to shield BJP minister, in hate speech case, to monitor probe

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A day after directing registration of FIR against BJP Minister Vijay Shah for calling Col. Sofiya Qureshi a “sister of terrorists,” the Court pulls up the police for drafting a deliberately vague complaint as ‘gross subterfuge’, and steps in to ensure justice is not derailed
Communalism

Pahalgam Tragedy and Rising Spiral of Hatred

Ram Puniyani -
The worst outcome of this has been the rise in incidents of hate against Muslims, the latest being a BJP minister in MP who made controversial remarks about Col. Sofiya Qureshi.
India

BJP govt’s ‘inhumane deportation of 40 Rohingya refugees’ condemned: PUCL

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The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has condemned the BJP-led NDA government’s ‘illegal and inhumane deportation of 40 Rohingya refugees from Delhi’. The...
Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

No to Dalits who are Christian, Muslim, how the AP HC limits its understanding of caste and faith

A Legal Researcher -
Relying on a discriminatory relic from the 1950s, the Presidential Order, the AP high court confines its understanding of caste discrimination, exclusion and untouchability to Dalit sections from among Hindus, Sikh or Buddhist; the recent decision thereby validates what has been increasingly viewed as the discriminatory presidential directive
India

Left Parties Take Out Huge Peace Rally in Kolkata Against War, Terrorism, Communalism

Sandip Chakraborty -
Speakers welcome ceasefire but flay US President Donald Trump “poking his nose” in Indo-Pak affairs.
Gender and Sexuality

One woman against a thousand superstitions, Birubala Rabha’s battle against the superstition of ‘Witch-Hunting’

Priyakshi Gogoi -
Though this pioneering feminist activist breathed her last on May 13, 2024, her work with the Thakurvilla Mahila Samiti and Missiom Birubala has been recognized internationally and May 13 has been declared Anti-Superstition Day in Assam
Gender and Sexuality

Rape is aggression, domination, consent must be instant specific, not dictated by morality tests: Bombay High Court

A Legal Researcher -
In a landmark judgement delivered on May 6, Maksud Gaffur Sheikh v. State of Maharashtra, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay HC reaffirmed the legal sanctity of continuing and specific consent and rejected character assassination of survivors/victims in rape trials
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