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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
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Activist actively involved in protesting against the Barsu-Solgaon refinery project detained by police
Activists in the area have been facing many legal road blocks, intimidation tactics exercised against protesters, meanwhile support for the refinery is creating havoc. Section 144 CrPC imposed.
Eid Mubarak: Mussalmans & a United Nation- India
First published on: 11 Nov 2016The Musalmans and a United...
Diverse Nation Needs Diverse Battles to Save it, Say Civil Society Activists
Intellectuals, former civil servants, historians, economists, and academicians came together on the 20th anniversary of the formation of Anhad, a civil society group, at Constitution Club in New Delhi on Saturday.
IT Rules 2023: Union Government can now flag content relating to any of its “businesses” as “misleading”
The new form of censorship and govt control over information flow, in the 2021 amended Rules have been earlier challenged by several digital media portals and their operation stayed by high courts, now stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra’s latest challenge is in the Bombay HC
Custodial torture victims are threatened, says People’s Watch: Tamil Nadu
In the latest conundrum over custodial torture in the...
BUJ deplores attempts to censor online content by Government fact check unit
The Brihanmumbai Union of Journalists deplores the Union Government’s attempt to regulate and censor news by a disingenuous and ambiguously-defined new device: a “fact -check unit” to identify ‘fake or false or misleading online content’ in respect of “any business of the Central Government.”
Triple Jeopardy! CJP wins legal battle for a Muslim daily wager who, after twice having proven his citizenship, received a third FT notice
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The CJP assists another Assam resident who had received, for the third time, an FT notice for being a suspected foreigner and wins! The constitutional battle against arbitrary legal malpractice for the marginalised continues
‘Peaceful Protest a Constitutional Right, perpetual invocation of section 144 concerning”: Former CJI UU Lalit
In 2021, over 365 days, section 144 was invoked in Delhi a staggering 6,100 times, and this in perpetuity, use of essential an emergency power granted to the police authorities is unacceptable, the former CJI said in the capital
Law Ministry data shows steady increase in release of Undertrial prisoners over 4 years
The UTRC was a concept formulated by the Supreme Court in a landmark case of 2015 where it took note of high number of undertrials in prisons
Activist Harsh Mander addresses TISS event online after entry ‘barred’ on March 23
The activist had been invited, authorities pressurised students body to cancel event
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