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How the Delhi riots case remains stagnant with close to a dozen student leaders incarcerated

A look back at the trajectory of the Delhi Riots case(s), especially the infamous and belatedly registered FIR 59/2020 reveals a litany of procedural and substantive failures, together resulting in the incarceration without bail, for five long years, ten student activists and human rights defenders and one more politician as “accused”

Plea to NHRC: Fairly investigate into ‘enforced disappearance’ of youth off Bangla border

In a representation to the National Human Rights Commission...

Surveillance and Freedom of Press – A call to public action

In this strongly worded public lecture delivered at Howrah West Bengal, senior editor calls upon all citizens, lawyers, journalists and activists to speak up against the sinister surveillance afoot in India, a phenomenon that is, repeatedly and with impunity targeting the working tools of journalists again and again.

India’s 2023 bad laws: Impact on Individual Freedoms and Indigenous Rights in a weaponised state

Do the 30 bills passed summarily, without due process, in the four sessions of the Parliament paint an even more dismal picture for the future of India, further curtailing our rights and freedoms?

Stifling of right to protest, freedom: Open letter to CJI Chandrachud

The open letter has alleged that peaceful protests were met with fake encounters, abductions and demolition of houses belonging to the protesters by police and other government instrumentalities

Unjust detention: Gautam Navlakha’s bail victory highlights insufficient evidence

Granting bail to writer and activist, Gautam Navlakha in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case (Bhima Koregaon case), the Bombay High Court, found insufficient evidence to prima facie indicate Navlakha's involvement in conspiring or executing terrorist acts

Media organisations criticise freezing of NewsClick accounts by I-T Department

‘The salaries of all employees, including support staff, cannot be disbursed, including for the 19 days of work in December,’ a joint statement said

India’s constitutional courts navigate challenges in upholding personal freedom over incarceration

While some bail pleas were swiftly addressed, many languished. A retrospective of 2023: Did the courts adequately safeguard the dwindling right to liberty for India's citizens?

How The New Censors Muzzle A Million People!

Prabir Purkayastha, founder editor of the news portal, ‘Newsclick’,...

How Seje Bala Ghosh, a freedom fighter’s daughter slurred as Bangladeshi is finally declared Indian

A 2004 notice is served on Seje Bala Ghosh, 20 years later in March 2020 –during the Covid-19 pandemic. She is the daughter of Lt. Digendra Chandra Ghosh, associate of legendary Chandra Shekhar Azad who in early November 2023, is finally declared Indian after an intrepid legal battle led by CJP’s Team Assam

50 HR groups appeal for unconditional release of Khurram Parvez, Irfan Meraj

NEW DELHI: As many as 50 human rights organisations...

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Supreme Court rebukes Haryana SIT for overreach in probe against Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad, reasserts narrow scope of investigation

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DUJ stands by journalist Ajit Anjum after Bihar government lodges an FIR against him for ground reportage on ECI’s SIR process

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Weaponising Truth: A critical analysis of the Karnataka Misinformation and Fake News (Prohibition) Bill, 2025

Marketed as a tool to fight disinformation, the Karnataka Misinformation and Fake News (Prohibition) Bill, 2025 hands sweeping powers to the executive, criminalises speech, and threatens to silence dissent, satire, and critique—under vague and ideological pretexts

‘Define Special Intensive Revision scope… make it clear not linked to citizenship’: BJP ally TDP writes to CEC Gyanesh Kumar

Questioning the modus of the recently begun controversial SIR exercise, the TDP letter to Election Commission (ECI) states categorically that any such ‘Special Intensive Revision’ (SIR) should provide voters enough time, and that those in electoral rolls must not be required to re-establish eligibility “unless specific and verifiable reasons are recorded”

Journalist Ajit Anjum booked for exposing Bihar’s SIR flaws

Senior journalist Ajit Anjum faces FIR in Balia, Bihar for exposing alleged voter list irregularities, he calls the FIR "a certificate for me as a journalist," vowing to continue reporting despite perceived intimidation tactics, Anjum said “I will not be scared. I will show only the truth”