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Judicial Pushback against Cow Vigilantism: Allahabad HC flags arbitrary FIRs, demands accountability from top officials
The Court exposes the way a regulatory law has become a system of targeted persecution of minorities through arbitrary FIRs under the 1955 law while ignoring the Supreme Court’s binding directives to prohibit group violence
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Farrukhabad: Dalit man allegedly beaten to death by UP cops
The family accused the police of targeting and killing the man for his caste identity
AltNews’s Mohammed Zubair remanded to four-day police custody
Delhi police arrested the journalist based on a complaint against a 2018 tweet
Teesta doing okay so far in police custody: Javed Anand
Setalvad’s activist-journalist husband is being allowed to meet her; she has access to medication
First Teesta Setalvad, now Mohammed Zubair!
Police called the Alt-News co-founder in for questioning in a 2020 case but then arrested him for a 2018 tweet
Human Rights organisations issue statements of support for Teesta Setalvad
With each day, support for the veteran journalist and activist continues to grow
Nation unites to demand Teesta Setalvad’s release
Peaceful protests held nationwide to demand release of the human rights defender
Chorus demanding justice for Teesta Setalvad grows louder!
More activists, journalists and civil society members are stepping out to express solidarity with the human rights defender
Ahmedabad court remands Teesta Setalvad to police custody till July 1
The human rights defender will be next produced in court on July 2
Support pours in for Teesta Setalvad
Civil society, socio-political activists and journalists demand justice for the human rights defender
PRESS RELEASE: Teesta Setalvad roughed up as Gujarat ATS personnel barge into her home
The human rights defender fears for her life as she is taken to Ahmedabad, ostensibly to the Crime Branch where a complaint of forgery is lodged against her
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