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SCs, Muslims both live in highly segregated neighbourhoods with poorer public services: International Study
The international working paper found that government services – like secondary schools, clinics and hospitals, electricity, water and sewerage – were all “systematically worse” in marginalised neighbourhoods
‘Naming & shaming’ instead of rule of law: UP recovery of damage to public & private property ordinance, 2020
The Ordinance is out. On Sunday, March 15, the Uttar Pradesh recovery of damage to public and private property ordinance 2020 was cleared in the cabinet meeting chaired by UP CM Adityanath in Lucknow on Friday. The ordinance ignores tested jurisprudence and caution from constitutional courts that point to the absence of due process in such a “Name and Shame” policy. Intrinsic to this understanding is the arbitrary, unchecked power such an ordinance gives wings of the state, tilting power away from the people into the hands of the state, its police, without any checks and balances
Stop blaming women and peaceful protesters for Delhi violence: Women’s groups
Women intellectuals and civil society members come together to condemn CAA-NPR-NRC
Protest against indiscriminate arrest of hundreds of Muslims in violence affected NE Delhi
Students and faculty of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)...
“Everyone has been Silenced”: a comprehensive report on UP violence and its aftermath
The report by Citizens Against Hate (CAH), gives detailed account of alleged episodes of police excess, destruction of property and targeted violence in UP
Delhi violence: Allegations of indiscriminate arrests of Muslim men
Over 100 allegedly arrested or detained from Mustafabad, including Muslim man guarding Hindu temple
Shaheen Bagh shooter granted bail; supporters give hero’s welcome
The court released him on a bond of Rs. 25,000 after his lawyer argued that keeping Baisla in judicial custody would serve no purpose
Bidar court says school play not seditious, what does it imply?
The court made this observation while granting anticipatory bail in the case and also dismissed other offences laid out in the case
CAA related violence: Finding no evidence, Bihar police drops 5 names from chargesheet
Police in Aurangabad has registered a case against 44 people in the anti-CAA protests that allegedly turned violent on December 21, 2019
Sisterhood, Resistance & Resolve: Shaheen Bagh’s women mark Interational Women’s Day, support Delhi violence survivors
Even as Shaheen Bagh rose up to support the survivors of Delhi’s mass violence, the east Delhi dairy farmer, who had fired at the site on February 1, received bail on Friday and was released on Saturday
Shaheen Bagh Women inspire Million Women Rise 2020 march: London
The South Asia Solidarity group backing the march said the women in Shaheen Bagh are inspiring flowers of resistance that have bloomed against genocidal laws
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