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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

Bombay High Court to hear plea for release of Hany Babu for urgent medical care

Advocate Yug Chaudhry informed Court that diagnosis for Mucormycosis is required as the Prof has an unknown eye infection

Live-in relationship is morally and socially unacceptable: Punjab & Haryana HC

Different judges of the high court in the recent past have passed such regressive orders, that not only go against orders passed by the court in the past, but also contravene precedents laid out by the apex court

CJP helps Amala Das get released on bail from Assam Detention Camp

Bitter-sweet conclusion to Bengali Hindu woman’s ordeal, as release comes five months after husband Gopesh’s institutional murder

Father Stan Swamy finally gets first Covid shot, health continues to deteriorate in jail

His medical note filed before the Bombay High Court on poor facilities states that Taloja houses 3,251 inmates instead of its capacity of 2,124, with only three Ayurvedic doctors on duty

Manipur: Journalist, activist post comment on cow dung, charged under NSA

Journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem, activist Erendro Leichombam arrested for social media posts that cow urine, dung doesn't cure Covid-19

Shift Father Stan Swamy to hospital: Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha

The CJP has also written to Maharashtra CM urging him to recommend the release of BK-15

CJP approaches Maharashtra Gov’t for release of BK-15

Friends and family have complained about lack of communication and shared harrowing accounts of deteriorating health of people who are essentially political prisoners

Covid-19 a virtual death sentence, new persecution tool against Bhima-Koregaon accused

Friends and families of undertrial prisoners narrate the worsening condition in Taloja and Byculla prisons, stressing a single fact – jail authorities must allow unconditional bail for all political prisoners!

Covid-19: Why has J&K sent its prisoners to jails in “worse-off states”?

Over a dozen Kashmiri political prisoners, reportedly moved from various jails of union territory (UT), sent to jails in Punjab and Haryana

Release Hany Babu: Professor tests Covid positive, eye infection gets worse

His family is struggling to secure his release and says, "A callous system is deaf and blind to our pain!"

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