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Inside the SSP’s Office: Allegations of beatings, torture & police impunity against farmer leaders in Meerut, UP

Digvijay Bhati and Mohit Jatav allege they were beaten, tied up and humiliated inside police premises; the allegations come weeks after the Meerut police faced scrutiny over its crackdown on protests demanding justice for a Dalit woman

Bloodstains

Major terrorist attacks in India over the past decade...

Gujarat blasts: Case closed?

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Murder by Blasphemy

A Hindu worker in Pakistan is lynched for blasphemy...

Shrill Sounds

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Instruments of Murder

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The only hope

Manufacturing a fig leaf of democracy in PakistanThe Government...

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  Systematic and brutal attacks on the Christian community in...

The growing ‘democratic deficit’

Sixty years of indifference and the throttling of the...

Redefining public space

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