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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

Despite SC rap, UP Claims Tribunal issues notice to recover damages from anti-CAA protesters!

Last month the notices issued by the administration, were withdrawn after the Supreme Court’s orders

Chorus grows for Hidme Markam’s release

A year after Markam’s arrest, Adivasis still haven’t seen a legitimate warrant for the activist’s imprisonment

NRC shadow still looms over Assam

Those excluded from it, continue to live in limbo

Who is lobbying to get activist actor Chetan Kumar deported to the US?

The actor-activist is currently out on bail, and the right-wing has been lobbying hard for at least a year to have him deported

West Bengal: Anis Khan solidarity protests lead to police-student conflict

With this, Bengal is the fifth state to report student-police violence in the last two months

Actor Activist Chetan Kumar gets bail

Bail order tells the actor who was arrested for a Tweet about a judge not to "make, publish, post, or circulate any derogatory/provocative statements in any manner"

Siddique Kappan: A journalist who has spent 500+ days in prison, for just doing his job

Kappan has applied for bail at Allahabad HC which will be taken up for hearing on March 15

Bhima Koregaon case: NIA court denies bail to Hany Babu and Kabir Kala Manch members

The court was of the opinion that prima facie case is made against the accused as they appeared to be involved in the conspiracy behind the violence

Karnataka: Chetan Kumar turns 39 behind bars, was jailed for asking a question

The actor-activist was jailed for questioning the objectivity of a judge who had reportedly made mysoginistic comments on rape in the past

Under fire from SC, UP gov’t withdraws damage notices against anti-CAA protesters

SC had previously pulled up the state administration for violating set procedure; the court has now directed the UP gov't to refund amounts to people who had be forced to pay damages under the withdrawn notices

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