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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

Anand Teltumbde’s bail hearing commences before Bombay HC

Apart from arguing for bail, Dr Anand Telmumbde, a renowned academic, will through his counsel, also be challenging the constitutionality of Section 43(D)(5 of the Unlawful Practices Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967

Hyderabad cops detained me, slapped me, pulled my hair: Sabber Kyaw Min

In this EXCLUSIVE interview to SabrangIndia, the Rohingya refugee community leader reveals how he was treated like a criminal and abused physically and verbally by personnel at the Balapur police station

Was Sanjiv Bhatt made to suffer in vain?

30-years later, complainant in a custodial torture case wants to withdraw complaint even though Bhatt was convicted and jailed for it!

CJP helps release another inmate from Tezpur detention centre in Assam

47-year-old daily-wage labourer was the only bread winner in his family

Dr. Umar Khalid: A human rights defender, failed by the judiciary

Grounds for denying bail flimsy, constant deferment borders on harassment and institutional violence

Fr Stan Swamy’s custodial death a ‘stain forever’: UN Group

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention asked govt of India to conduct an effective investigation into the circumstances that led to Fr Swamy’s death

Is Bennett University violating students’ right to protest?

Dubbing protests as "anti-national", the private institution run by the same group that owns the Times of India, asked students and parents to sign an undertaking that they will not participate in protests

Delhi Violence: Ishrat Jahan granted bail in wider conspiracy case

The advocate and political activist has been languishing behind bars for 25 months

Can anyone return 12 years of her life to Soni Sori?

After being acquitted in the 2011 Sedition case, Sori has now been acquitted in the cases against her

Freedom for Ishrat Jahan as Court grants her bail!

An advocate, activist and a political activist, Ishrat Jahan was granted bail after 25 long months

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