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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

State is deriving sadistic pleasure by extending custody period, its torture: Ishrat Jahan

During the lawyer-activists’ bail hearing, the Public Prosecutor argued that her bail plea is not maintainable, after 6 months of hearing

Mumbai court rejects bail pleas of Anand Teltumbde, Gautam Navlakha

The activists falsely implicated in the Bhima Koregaon case, had applied for bail citing old age and the possibility of contracting Covid-19

Assam: 100 FT members continue in office even after expiry of terms!

Union Home Ministry yet to decide whether to extend their terms

Afghan crisis: Hardeep Singh Puri’s justification of CAA invalid

Afghan evacuees are not undocumented and have not been residing in India since 2014, two yardsticks important to CAA

UAPA case is to selectively target people who oppose CAA: Dr. Umar Khalid

The activist was appearing before a District court for a hearing of his bail plea in the Delhi violence case where has been booked under UAPA

Gauri Lankesh was a martyr to the cause of secular ideas

Celebrated journalists came together at an event to honour the life and work of Lankesh, and to discuss the current era of surveillance

Mumbai with Afghanistan

Activists and human rights groups come together in Mumbai, to demand freedom, democracy and justice for citizens of Afghanistan, who are at present suffering under the Taliban regime

10 months on, Siddique Kappan still in jail!

The journalist along with three others, was arrested under UAPA charges on October 5 last year on their way to Hathras

Hell, by any other name…

Changing the nomenclature of detention camps does not change the fact that conditions there remain abysmal!

Indian diaspora unfurls ‘Resign Modi’ banner in London on August 15

They also held a candlelight vigil outside Indian High Commission to “remember all the victims of the Modi regime”

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