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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

Bom HC awards compensation to victims of illegal detention

The Aurangabad bench held that the state government needs to fasten responsibility in such cases

Etah lawyer assault: Allahabad HC takes suo moto cognisance

The court may have been prompted by letters written by the High Court’s Bar Association and the Bar Council of India seeking action

A 2020 Report of Victims of Incarceration: Student activists harassed, arrested 

Remember how we witnessed a complete crackdown by the Delhi police on students protesting the unconstitutional CAA 2019 and proposed all India NRC and NPR? A SabrangIndia series tracks how these dynamic students have thereafter been charged with serious offences under counter-terror legislation on ground of ‘causing’ the Delhi violence of 2020

Anti CAA protesters get bail: Mumbai

Twenty-nine activists, lawyers, students, artists, academicins and civilians appeared...

A 2020 Report of Victims of apathy: People of Assam

How this year, the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdown and floods, further added to the misery caused by the citizenship crisis, and impacted the lives of ‘others’

Mehmood Pracha’s office raid a “pressure tactic” by Police: Delhi Riot victims

Victims of Delhi violence came out in solidarity with the lawyer, revealing attempts to harass and intimidate them by the Delhi police

UP’s Love Jihad law completes one month, 35 incarcerated  

Since its promulgation, more than one arrest per day has been recorded taking the tally to around 35

UP college students booked for Sedition for demanding union elections

Principal N D Pandey, accused them of chanting "indecent and anti-national slogans like Le ke rahenge azadi" 

Adv Mehmood Pracha’s Office raid: Court summons IO for video footage

Mehmood Pracha moved the Patiala House Court for preservation of the video footage taken during the raid and for continuous monitoring

Why did Nagpur Central Jail refuse to accept essentials sent for Professor Saibaba? 

Fed up with attitude of  jail staff, lawyer Aakash Sarode pens a bare-all letter, puts jail authorities on notice to fulfill their legal responsibility to look after the wheelchair bound, diabled professor

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