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Arunachal’s anti-dam protests intensify as arrests, militarisation and threats to press freedom fail to silence resistance
Communities resisting the proposed 11,200 MW project fear the loss of ancestral land, livelihoods and cultural heritage, with activists detained under the APUAPA
Come rain or cold, Assam protests go on
The artists community in Assam was joined by the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) for a protest rally against CAA. The eastern India is indeed keeping the flame of protests burning. Bengal also simultaneously held protest marches with its Matua community and Gorakha Janmukti Morcha (Tamang) marching on.
MP Elamaran Kareem urges President to probe JNU violence
The Rajya Sabha MP in his letter to the President also appealed to him to evict the Vice Chancellor of JNU
Police failure to protect JNU from terror attack needs to be independently investigated
Image Courtesy: countercurrents.orgThe terror attack on JNU last night...
CJP’s big win: SC hears petition, orders no children be sent to detention camps in Assam
CJP’s application sought directions from the apex court that drew attention to the Constitutional, legal obligations and prayed, specifically that no child excluded from the NRC is either sent to detention camps nor separated from their parents in Assam.
Express yourself without fear: Faculty to IIT Kanpur students
They wrote in support of students reciting Faiz’s poem “Hum Dekhenge” during anti-CAA protest
BJP and its attempts to get support for a law it passed, without due democratic debate
The BJP is conducting door-to-door campaigns, distributing pamphlets, running a missed-call campaign as it clearly struggles to make its CAA support campaign look bigger than the widespread protests.
Another death in Assam’s detention camp brings the total to 29
The total has now gone up to 29 deaths in Assam’s detention camps raising some serious questions on the condition of inmates and the claims made by government about good facilities.
Jamia issues press statement condemning JNU violence
Jamia, DU and JNU to go on a fact-finding mission regarding violent attacks on JNU students
Bengal: Matuas and Gorkha Janmukti Morcha march against CAA on same day
The nation-wide campaign against CAA refuses to die down as West Bengal continues to erupt in protests every now and then. The sentiment against the law is quite stout as is demonstrated by the protestors.
Adv. Mohammed Shoaib’s petition hearing postponed by Allahabad HC
The Rihai Manch President was arrested during the anti-CAA protests on December 19, 2019 and his whereabouts are said to be unknown
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