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Assam’s Foreigners’ Tribunals bypass constitutional safeguards: Report

Given the possibility of the onset of a nationwide exercise to update the National Register of Citizens, the report, ‘Unmaking Citizens’ by NLSIU & Queen Mary University of London, calls for an urgent, fundamental rethinking of the legal structures governing citizenship in India

Rescuing people from statelessness: CJP in Assam, a 2022 overview

Coming to the rescue of hapless citizens whose ‘citizenship’ was put to question, formed a major part of CJP’s Assam team’s efforts in 2022.

Shakira spotlights Iran’s footballer Amir Nasr who faces death penalty

The 26-year-old Iranian football player Amir Nasr-Azadani is facing the threat of execution

In Garb of Data Protection Bill, Centre Attacking RTI, Allege Information Commissioners

During an online press conference, they claimed that the proposed data protection Bill is used to take the essence of RTI law. Civil societies and journalists should speak up.

SC exists to protect personal liberty: CJI DY Chandrachud 

Kiren Rijiju, India’s law minister’s most recent provocation to the Supreme Court brought a swift and unequivocal response. CJI, hearing a matter where a man suffered long years of unfair incarceration said,  “If we do not act in matters of personal liberty..what are we doing here?”

CJP helps another Assam resident prove his citizenship!

Lakhan Das, who was served his FT notice in February 2021, blesses CJP for their constant support

India, with seven journalists jailed, draws criticism over its curtailment of media freedoms

Six of the seven journalists listed by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in its annual report are being investigated under the dreaded Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA)

Evidence planted on Jesuit-activist Stan Swamy’s laptop: Arsenal US Report

The report blasts a hole in the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) charges against Stan Swamy; before this similar plants had been found in Rona Wilson and Surendra Gadling’s computers

Conference on Left Movement cancelled after ‘call from senior official in Edu (MHRD) ministry: IIT Bombay

In a move that signals autocratic censorship, sources told The Wire  that the decision was announced past midnight, just a day before the scheduled event. In the email, organisers noted they were 'forced' to cancel it.

Protesting for release of GN Saibaba, Delhi students ‘assaulted’ by ABVP, cops

 India’s premier human rights network, National Alliance of People’s...

Indian Constitution reflects India’s essential quality, a pluralist and tolerant people: United Nations Representative

Speaking at an International Human Rights Day even on December 10, the UN’s Resident Coordinator doe India, Shombi Sharp was in the presence of President, Draupadi Murmu and NHRC chairperson, Arun Mishra

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NCERT’s ‘Partition Horrors’: A brazen exercise in white-washing the ‘crimes’ of the Hindu Mahasabha & RSS

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EXCLUSIVE: Solid empirical evidence of tampering in Voter’s List mustn’t let us forget EVM Manipulations: Computer Expert Madhav Deshpande

Only because now we have solid empirical evidence of unparalleled tampering of voter list (what he dubs as ‘vote theft’) we must not think that the EVM integrity is not in question anymore, says VFD expert, Madhav Deshpande

Journalists’ bodies strongly condemn sedition charges against Siddharth Varadarajan, Karan Thapar of The Wire

Both the Press Club of India and the Indian Women Press Corps alleged that the Assam Police unleashed vindictive actions against the journalists through the Crime Branch

Liberty on Hold: Delays turn the promise of justice into punishment

“The right to a speedy trial, now firmly entrenched in our constitutional jurisprudence under Article 21 of the Constitution of India, is not an abstract or illusory safeguard. It is a vital facet of the right to personal liberty and cannot be whittled down merely because the case arises under a special statute.”

Thousands of discrepancies in UP Voters Lists of 2022, widespread fraud alleges Akhilesh Yadav, former UP chief minister

On Monday, August 18, Samajwadi Party (SP) national president and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav alleged widespread, evidence driven, voter discrepancies in voters lists of the state, also stating that his party had approached the ECI about these in 2022, soon after the state assembly polls but which had been simply ignored by the poll body. He was joined later in the day by SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav who questioned the motives of the government and ECI while further detailing these gross irregularities and illegalities in Adityanath-ruled UP

Indian tricolour & the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

RSS-BJP rulers have called upon Indians to unfurl Tricolour, our national flag on the eve of 79th Independence Day of India. In RSS-BJP ruled states this is now a “must” for madrasas and some Mosques.