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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

Mahul needs you

The residents who had been ‘rehabilitated’ to Mahul, today languish in apathetic conditions facing life-threatening diseases

TikTok bans teen for protesting China’s treatment of Uighurs

Feroza Aziz, a 17-year-old Muslim high school student from New Jersey, used Tik Tok to appealed to her followers to read up and make themselves aware of the inhumane treatment of Uighur Muslims in China in a short video disguised as a makeup tutorial.

NRC & Citizenship Issue today a rights crisis of epic proportions, Assam: Fact-Finding Report

Interim Report of the Fact-Finding visit to Assam on the Updating of the NRC

Activists question Centre’s illegal 348-hour detention of ‘Bangladeshis’ picked from Karnataka

They were allegedly apprehended and detained without reason and there is no clarity on repatriation

They told me three days, but I was released after three months: RTI activist Raja Bhat

He was unlawfully detained in the wake of the government’s decision to abrogate Article 370

Assam’s Detention Camps are akin to Germany’s Concentration Camps: Thinkers

A cross-section of thinkers and literary personalities came out against Assam’s Detention camps, demanded their closure and halt to construction of the proposed new one at Goalpara stating that 823 of the 938 persons languishing without fair trial are Assamese citizens

Assam migrant labourer forced to rot in detention camp for going to Delhi in search of a job!

Migrant labourer declared ‘foreigner’ for going to Delhi in search of a job!

Suspected Bangladeshi sent to Bengal by Karnataka police without trial clueless about their future

Karnataka police picked up 61 people including 15 minors and 25, mostly rag pickers on suspicion of them being Bangladeshi. Without producing them to the court, they have sent them to West Bengal to hand them over to the border security forces, who in turn will hand to the Border Guards of Bangladesh. However of 61 individuals arrested, 59 have been sent to Bengal, while 2 have been kept back in Karnataka only

Seven Detainees of Bongaigaon District released from Goalpara Detention camp

GUWAHATI: A total of seven detainees from Bongaigaon District...

SHRC- New ray of light for victims of police brutality?

India has recently seen a spur in peaceful protests being subjected to use of excessive force by the police and misusing their power and authority. It is being seen as violation of human rights and our Human Rights Commissions are meting out just orders against such cases of police brutality and if the trend goes on, it might one day serve as a deterrent against errant police officials.

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