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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
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Undermining the idea of India
The following is the text of the speech delivered by Justice G.S.Patel, Judge of the Bombay High Court, on the occasion of The Leaflet's Constitution Day Talk on November 26
Disturbing trend in direction of country’s governance has become discernible: Constitutional Conduct Group
An open letter by retired senior bureaucrats puts on record that “foundational values of our republic” have been under “relentless assault of an arrogant, majoritarian state”
Khurram Parvez’s arrest is another attempt to silence dissenters: PUCL
People’s Union for Civil Liberties calls for immediate release of Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez
Kashmir based human rights activist Khurram Parvez arrested
NIA arrested him after hours of searches at his residence and the office of his NGO; he was charged under various sections of IPC and UAPA
Now even beggars are not spared by Assam FTs!
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CJP comes to his aid of Assam beggar served FT notice, discovers name already included in NRC
Gov’t U-turn in Hyderpora encounter: Bodies of 2 Srinagar residents exhumed, to be returned to families
While the authorities had previously denied requests to return the remains claiming the deceased were militants, the gov't has now reversed the decision in what appears to be a victory for the People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration who have also demanded a time-bound judiciary inquiry into Hyderpora killings
Won’t allow Kashmir to be turned into a graveyard: PADG
The People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration has demanded a time-bound judiciary inquiry into Hyderpora killings
UAPA is used as preventive detention law, without it being one: Ex-civil servants petition SC
Petitioners point out that abysmally low rates of successful prosecutions show that the Act is arbitrarily used more to quell dissent
Delhi: Police complaint against standup comedian Vir Das for ‘maligning India’s image’
Another police complaint has been lodged against Vir Das in Delhi by one Aditya Jha, said to be a BJP member
Why are right-wing bhakts so easily triggered by satire?
Comedian Vir Das is being hounded after he performed a set titled 'I come from two Indias' at Kennedy Center
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