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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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Are Bengaluru authorities promoting the ‘cancel culture’ of the right wing?
Comedian Kunal Kamra was forced to cancel his upcoming shows in the city; has alleged “threats'' and the audience numbers being restricted
Bhima Koregaon case: Bombay HC grants Sudha Bharadwaj bail
The activist had spent three years behind bars and applied for default bail; court rejected bail for eight others
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
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