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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

This Moyna will not be caged!

After eight months of persistence, CJP’s legal interventions ensured that a nonagenarianRajbongshi woman was declared Indian by an Assam Foreigners’ Tribunal

Anti-CAA-NRC protests in UP: Horrors of a police-state

APCR details an account of the victims of the police aggression against peaceful anti-CAA protesters in 2019

Police crackdown on student protesters in Delhi, Kolkata

Delhi students succeed in voicing their demands through rigorous protests, but Kolkata students face a harsher reality

Supreme Court takes UP gov’t to task over notices issued to anti-CAA protesters

“Follow due process under the law.. we are giving opportunity till February 18,” SC sets deadline for UP Gov't to explain its actions, else SC will quash notices

Rona Wilson’s devices hacked by two groups of hackers employed by same entity: Sentinel Labs

California-based cybersecurity firm’s report says two separate groups were employed by same entity with “interests aligned with the Indian State”

Ensure strict compliance and obviate harassment: SC cautions Tripura Police

Court was hearing a plea by a man accused of spreading unrest via social media during the protests that broke out in Tripura in response to desecration of temples in Bangladesh during Durga Puja in 2021

Kashmir: Journalist Fahad Shah arrested for FB post on Pulwama encounter

Pulwama Police allege ‘Facebook users and portals have been uploading anti-national content’

Umar Khalid bail: Prosecution alleges Pinjra Tod and others were included to give protests appear secular

He submitted that the protest sites, including Shaheen Bagh were all organised and hence cannot be said to be organic as was being largely claimed

Fr Stan Swamy, Khurram Parvez, Siddique Kappan on USCIRF’s Freedom of Religion or Belief victims list

United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has listed 1309 victims from across the world on this FoRB victims list

Not funny! Zee slapped with notice after children’s political satire upsets BJP 

I&B Ministry issues notice to Zee Tamil after Tamil Nadu BJP alleges “obnoxious comments” were made about Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a children's show

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