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PUCL slams recently passed Rajasthan anti-conversion bill as “draconian and unconstitutional”
Civil liberties body says bill criminalises faith, dialogue, and choice; demands Governor/President intervention
Shops reopened in Dharchula, Uttarakhand FIRs filed after calm restored: SP
Shops belonging to the minority community reopened in Dharchula town of Pithoragarh district in Uttarakhand on Monday, March 18 following the intervention of the district administration.
Hate crime committed against foreign students in Gujarat University
Foreign students attacked in GU, rooms and motorcycles vandalised over namaz row
Conspiracy or Coincidence? Mosques defaced in March after spate of hate speeches provoking the crime weeks before
Provocation and crime: three separate incidents of vandalism and defacement of Mosques since January after three hate speeches calling for demolition of Mosques since January
Bodoland University’s cultural event reportedly displays Muslims as criminals escorted by police, student groups demand apology
A cultural procession organised by its Department of History at the Bodoland University in Kokrajhar, Assam took a disturbing turn when it depicted Muslims as criminals.
Haldwani Violence: Cautioning police against overreach CPI-M delegation demands independent inquiry
In a letter addressed to the Uttarakhand Governor, Lt. General Gurmit Singh, a CPI-M delegation has demanded an independent inquiry into the recent Haldwani violence and narrated details of their fact-finding conducted when they visited the affected areas on March 13.
Tensions rise as Chhattisgarh sees frequent attacks on Christians
Chhattisgarh sees Christian community protest as the Bajrang Dal continues to accuse them of religious conversion.
15-year-old Muslim boy reportedly driven to suicide after he was humiliated and beaten by teachers
Hate crimes against minorities continue to abound as religious minorities, including Muslims, face violence across the country. From vigilante groups to school teachers and principals harassing and perpetuating anti-Muslim hate, Muslims continue to live a dangerous life.
Gauhati University is under complete lockdown, as protests against the CAA implementation spread across Assam, fears of the 2019 repression and loss of life...
A series of protests have unfolded all across Assam after the Centre, on March 11, furnished the rules and regulations of the Citizenship Amendment Act, which was passed in 2019.
Selective & discriminatory, CAA notification likely to be followed by NPR-NRC
Since the time that the intent of what became the CAA Amendment of 2019 was conceived and found its way into the BJP’s 2014 manifesto, its intent has been divisive and exclusionary; the threats issued time and again by the minister for home affairs that CAA 2019 would follow a “chronology” –All India NPR and NRC—made the intent worse; insecurity and social upheavals will be the result of this cynical diktat
Anti-constitutional, bereft of humanity & religiously bigoted: CAA 2019 is now enforced in India
Not only are the Balochis and Ahmadiyas from Pakistan abandoned under this skewed law, but so are Uyghur Muslims of China and Tamil Hindus or Sri Lanka
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Labour rights, health of workers hit in the name of “reform”: PUCL Maharashtra
A detailed statement by the Maharashtra unit of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has, with reasoned arguments, critiqued the recent decision of the MahaYuti government in Maharashtra to curtail labour rights in the name of “reform”; Maharashtra government’s decision is in line with other states like Telangana, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tripura (two of these are Congress ruled states) which have also enacted similar legislations.
Politics
Protests across Maharashtra denounce the Public Security Act as unconstitutional and anti-democratic
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Rule of Law
Reaffirming Open Justice: The Supreme Court on speech and contempt
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