Rights

The deceased, branded a “foreigner” despite decades-old family records, died of untreated cancer after authorities denied his release; his case adds to a grim record of deaths, rights violations, and ignored Supreme Court rebukes against Assam’s detention regime

"The stigma of being falsely branded a ‘terrorist’ continues to haunt me even after acquittal"

A 7-year-old Muslim boy in Haridwar’s Jhabrera village was allegedly beaten, pinned down, and stomped on by two government school teachers over a brief absence, leaving him with a fractured hand and severe trauma

After years of stigma as a “D-voter,” the Dhubri Foreigners Tribunal recognises her citizenship—thanks to CJP’s legal aid and evidence of generations rooted in Assam

Cabinet move under the 1950 Act empowers District Commissioners to expel alleged foreigners in 10 days, raising constitutional concerns over due process and separation of powers

A detailed statement by the Maharashtra unit of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has, with reasoned arguments, critiqued the recent decision of the MahaYuti government in Maharashtra to curtail labour rights in the name of “reform”; Maharashtra government’s decision is in line with other states like Telangana, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tripura (two of these are Congress ruled states) which have also enacted similar legislations.

Opposition, rights groups, and people’s movements unite to call it an “anti-people, anti-democratic law”

From migrant workers vanishing in midnight raids to a Kolkata man driven to suicide by fear, reports across states reveal a disturbing pattern of expulsions without due process — now under scrutiny in India’s courts

The Karnataka High Court’s ruling on X Corp’s challenge could either restore the centrality Section 69A as the sole content blocking mechanism, or re-ignite the issues that were closed in Shreya Singhal

Shivasundar, a freelance journalist, writer, and longtime associate and dear friend of fiery activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh, who was assassinated on September 5, 2017, by extremists alleged to belong to the dreaded Sanatan Sanstha has penned this heartfelt poem on Gauri. On the eighth anniversary of her dastardly assassination.