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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

Growing tensions against NPR-NRC halt Census work: WB

The recent mob attack on a volunteer collecting information for an NGO have made teachers to be chosen for the Census exercise anxious

Illegal and inhuman: Child rights groups condemn Bidar police’s investigation of children

They condemned the interrogation of children and the charges of sedition slapped on parent and authorities

Uber driver drags pro-democracy poet to cops: Nexus to build climate of fear?

Bappaditya Sarkar tells us about the chilling encounter where driver gave him a dire warning, and police asked him about his finances suspecting links to left wing extremists

Gujarat’s sleepy Modasa wakes up to women protesting the CAA-NPR-NRC

The rally in the town of Gujarat saw thousands of women decry the fascist policies of the government

TISS SU demands immediate release of student Kris Chudawala

The Students' Union condemns the government and media for their bias against queer individuals and portraying Kris as anti-national

16 Religious congregations denounce CAA

Statement by representatives of groups working with marginalized people calls CAA unconstitutional and counter-productive to SDG 16.

Pinjra Tod condemns govt for rampant use of sedition charges

The organization slammed the ruling disposition for the interrogation of children and silencing dissent

Ujjal Dosanjh raises concerns about Assam detention camps

Chief Justice of India was present on the dias at the event where the Canadian ex-minister also recited the poem ‘First they came for…’ 

Indore reverberates with the chant of ‘Hum Kaagaz Nahi Dikhaenge”

Swara Bhaskar, Medha Patkar and Digvijaya Singh among others address massive anti-CAA-NPR-NRC rally in the city

Did UP Police lathi-charge women anti-CAA protesters in Azamgarh?

Women were holding Shaheen Bagh style sit-in protest, when male police officers allegedly rained lathis on them

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