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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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“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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Rights
Nearly two decades without elections, Jamia students’ agitation forces administration to set deadline for union revival
The university has agreed to implement the students’ union constitution by May 15, 2027, and conduct elections under Lyngdoh Committee guidelines
India
Arunachal’s anti-dam protests intensify as arrests, militarisation and threats to press freedom fail to silence resistance
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India
Food Security during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Need for a shift from food security to nutrition justice.
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India
Delhi SIR: Public audit finds 416 of 1,236 deleted voters still at their registered addresses
A four-day door-to-door audit in Trilokpuri found voters marked absent, shifted or dead who were still living at their registered addresses, with 47.57 lakh names missing from Delhi’s draft roll, affected voters have until October 30 to file claims
India
SIR’s elusive illegal immigrants: Bogey Busted but will the injustices heaped be corrected?
Barely 771 “foreign nationals” identified in Karnataka and a miniscule 1,600 in six other Indian states; yet the hysterical bogey of the “ghuspetiya” (illegal immigrant) has been used to render 130 million plus Indian without the right to vote?
Rule of Law
2020 Delhi Riots: Delhi High Court upholds seven-year sentence for five men in 22-year old Muslim migrant worker’s death
The Court holds that failure to identify who inflicted the fatal injuries does not absolve the accused under Section 149 IPC, relying on evidence of their participation in an armed mob that assaulted the victim, Monish