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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
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India’s constitutional courts navigate challenges in upholding personal freedom over incarceration
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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!
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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...
Assam: Fourteen persons despatched to detention camp, families left frantic
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CJP Team Assam has been on ground, offering para-legal aid and moral support after 14 people were detained during a routine check on October 31, 2023.
After four weeks of protests, an FIR against EFLU Hyd students for hunger strike, using slogans like ‘Inquilab Zindabad’
Protests in EFLU had been launched on October 18 following the sexual assault of a female student on campus. Students have been demanding, among other things that the Vice Chancellor Suresh Kumar and Proctor T Samson resign. These protests have been reported in The Times of India, Siasat.com, News Nine and The NewsMinute
IIT-Bombay: Faculty backs professor over Hamas claims calling out the malicious campaign of misinformation & falsehood
A group named the Vivek Vichar Manch has claimed that Prof. Sharmistha Saha and guest speaker Sudhanva Deshpande had glorified Hamas action against Israel during a discussion after the screening of a documentary film — Arna’s Children
Right-wing group protests a talk on Palestine, demands faculty who organised event be arrested: IIT-Bombay
Reports that the slogan "Goli Maron Sallon Ko" raised outside IIT-Bombay have emerged after a lecture and film screening on Palestine was held at the institute's humanities and social science department.
Assault on students during peaceful protest in Allahabad protested, complaint to NHRC
The HRD Alert-India has, in a strongly worded complaint, protested the assault of students during a peaceful protest in Allahabad University; the assault was, reportedly, by officials of the university and the issue exacerbated, by a failure of the police to file an FIR
Filmmaker Sudhanva Deshpande releases statement accusing Times Now of spreading malicious misinformation against him
A programme run by Times Now had called the lecture given by Deshpande at IIT-B as being Pro-Hamas and glorifying terrorists
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