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From Assam’s Soil to Detention and Back: The tragic death of Amzad Ali

Locked up in Matia detention camp despite generations-long roots in Assam, 49-year-old Amzad Ali dies of cancer as authorities ignore medical appeals; family finally lays him to rest in his native village

Victory! CJP puts up an 11 month fight to prove citizenship of Omesha bibi, a farmer’s wife

After eleven months of hard work by the CJP legal team to disprove the false accusations of being an “illegal immigrant”, Omesha Khatun Bibi can finally breathe a sigh of relief

Bearing Witness to Catastrophe and Collapse: The Indomitable Sheetla Singh

Sheetla Singh and Jan Morcha have, in so many ways, protected us from the all-pervasive scourge of revisionist and targeted hate.

Strong condemnation after ED questions researcher Navsharan Singh

Singh had been an active supporter of people’s movements and a prominent participant in the farmers' protests that shook the Union government in 2020-21.

Saheba Bibi’s fight for justice: CJP takes on her case to prevent statelessness

Over the past few weeks, CJP has brought to...

HRD & lawyer Mohammed Shoaib among two other activists in Varanasi picked up: UP

Malka Bi said her husband is innocent, that she was given no reasons for his sudden detention without FIR or warrant by the Uttar Pradesh Police which took place about 7.15 a.m., that is in the early hours of Sunday, May 6, reported Scroll. Sabrangindia received information of at least two other activists being picked up in Varanasi on the afternoon of May 6.

Assam legal aid plea hearing deferred beyond vacation

The plea filed in 2021, that has details of an independent survey of 10 districts revealing an absence of any measures, sought legal aid for those excluded form NRC in accordance with a press communication of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs

Apology for a visa to cremate his deceased mother: Ankit Love Bhim Singh to PM Modi

Desperate for an Indian visa to perform mother’s last rites, Bhim Singh’s son, Ankit Love, apologises for London protest in a letter to Prime Minister Modi dated May 2

Protesting wrestlers manhandled by drunk Delhi police officer at night, supporters and journalists detained

Supreme Court closes proceedings even as Sr. Adv. Hooda mentions the hardships being faced by the protesters, asks them to approach jurisdictional courts

Freedom of Expression: Driver for All other Human Rights

Joseph Stiglitz, the 2001 Nobel Prize recipient in Economic Sciences said, “Free speech and a free press not only make abuses of governmental powers less likely; they also enhance the likelihood that people’s basic social needs will be met. Secrecy reduces the information available to the citizenry, hobbling people’s ability to participate meaningfully. Essentially, meaningful participation in democratic processes requires informed participants”.

Maharashtra Govt GR on inter-religious marriages based on prejudicial assumptions, target women & vulnerable groups: Rights groups

Four petitioners, Citizens for Justice & Peace (CJP), People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Maharashtra, Forum Against the Oppression of Women (FAOW) and Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) have together challenged the Maharashtra government GR setting up a Committee to monitor inter-faith marriages and moreover, the untested justification for the move which is “1 lakh cases of love jihad in the state,” as stated by minister for women and child development, Mangal Prabhat Lodha in the assembly

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