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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

SC demands to see evidence against arrested activists, extends house arrest

The Supreme Court has thwarted yet another attempt by...

S Shankar: “We need to think of free speech both in terms of form and content”

The novelist and writer in conversation with Souradeep RoyIn...

Constructing Democratic Rights Activists as Conspirators

The recent arrest of activists and intellectuals, and raids...

UAPA is a Very Unjust Law in Terms of Bail…Almost Like a Life Sentence: Anand Grover

Senior Advocate Anand Grover speaks about UAPA and breaks...

Pune based Muslim techie completes one month of Satyagraha against forced termination

Advocate Shahid Nadeem, lawyer for legal cell of Jamiat...

‘Declared Foreigner’ Sofiya Khatun to be released from Kokrajhar Detention Camp: Assam

Interim relief granted by Supreme Court on September 12,...

Dalit Assertion: Bhim Army at Jantar Mantar

First Published on : May 21, 2017Defying attempts by...

Report of threat to Kashmiri Pandits to distract from issues about Article 35A, 370: KPSS

KPSS says report "aimed to increase the trust deficit"...

Stripped and Exposed: At last the naked Truth

By continuing to punish the Palestinian people for being...

“Prisons can’t lock up ideas and ideals”

On Gautam Navlakha’s ProsecutionIn some ways, I had always...

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