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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

“How long will or can the moon be caged, hum dekhenge…”

Six months in prison for dreaming of freedom? Citizens demand the release of Devangana, Natasha and all anti-CAA-NRC-NPR protesters

No objection to Siddique meeting his lawyer: UP gov’t to SC

The Supreme Court while hearing a habeas corpus petition moved by KUWJ to release Siddique Kappan, had asked the State to file its response

Why is the government evicting senior artists during the pandemic?

You call us cultural legends, ambassadors but are unable to house some 20 of us: Eminent artists tell government to reconsider eviction orders

Editors Guild writes to Assam CM on safety and protection of working journalists in the state

Letter comes in the wake of growing targeting of the media in the north east, EGI had written a similar letter to UP CM Adityanath recently

NRC exclusion causes Assam man to flee, wife contemplates suicide!

SabrangIndia's sister organisation CJP is now helping Zabbar Ali's the impoverished family defend his citizenship, so that they can all be reunited

JNU violence: Delhi Police ‘probes’ negligence accusations, gives itself a clean chit

Around 100 masked persons had gone on a rampage with sticks and rods inside the university… zero arrests so far

NPRD petitions NHRC to provide Fr Stan Swamy ‘reasonable accommodations’ in jail

The disability rights organisation expressed anguish at the delay in granting permission to use a sipper to the 83-year old suffers from Parkinson's disease and finds it difficult to hold a cup or a glass to drink water

Mumbai police withdraw ‘externment notices’ against activists, students

Police had earlier served these notices to those who had participated in the ‘Occupy Gateway’ and Hutatma Chowk protests

Delhi HC grants bail as accused with weak sight found without spectacles in CCTV footage

The Delhi riots accused has been in custody since April and hence the court deemed that he deserved bail

Bombay HC directs immediate hospitalisation of Dr. Varavara Rao  

The High Court Bench remarked that the State cannot insist on treating him at Taloja Jail as he is critical.

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