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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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Three decades on, many Sardar Sarovar Dam affected persons still await rehabilitation
The third and final part of the series on the project is an overview of the shortcomings of the government in providing resettlement and rehabilitation to project affected persons
Don’t Kill Varavara Rao in Jail!
Family members of the noted Telugu poet say he is incoherent, and his health is deteriorating fast
Assam Detention Camps: 32 people released, here’s how CJP did it
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Take a closer look at a blow-by-blow account of the painstaking procedure our team had to follow
Kafeel Khan describes prison to be ‘a living hell’ in letter from jail
The doctor said there is absolutely no social distancing in prison and there are 1600 inmates in a barrack meant for 534
Save country & constitution from the current govt: PB Sawant
In a call to all progressive lawyers, Justice PB Sawant says that the powers that be are inimical to the Indian Constitution that is a culturally and socially transformative document
Police not competent to file FIR under sec 188 of IPC: Madras HC
The court relied on a precedent that held that the complaint should come from a public servant and the police can only exercise preventive action
The environmental impact of the Sardar Sarovar Dam
In part two of a three-part series, we look at the widespread ecological damage upstream and downstream of the dam and the loss of flora and fauna
CJP helps mother reunite with sons, secures release from Assam Detention Camp
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“I never thought I would see the faces of my boys," says Harbala Khatun who was released from Kokrajhar detention camp due to CJP’s intervention
Unite in defence of the Rule of Law & Article 19, senior bureaucrats tell Indians
A statement issued by 99 former bureaucrats and policemen, the Constitutional Conduct Group, decries the assault on the freedom of expression and the right to dissent and calls on Indians to unite in protest
Mahesh Raut, Bhima Koregaon-11’s youngest activist spends another birthday in prison
Raut was arrested in June 2018 for allegedly inciting violence at the Elgar Parishad
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Nearly two decades without elections, Jamia students’ agitation forces administration to set deadline for union revival
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India
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India
Food Security during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Need for a shift from food security to nutrition justice.
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India
Delhi SIR: Public audit finds 416 of 1,236 deleted voters still at their registered addresses
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India
SIR’s elusive illegal immigrants: Bogey Busted but will the injustices heaped be corrected?
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2020 Delhi Riots: Delhi High Court upholds seven-year sentence for five men in 22-year old Muslim migrant worker’s death
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