Tag: justice

Justice not about money… punish officers responsible: father of killed Naga miner / Meghalaya to urge Centre to repeal AFSPA / Nagaland killings: Direct marise…they shot right at us, no signal to stop, we did not flee, says ambush survivor

NB: My deepest condolences to the families of the deceased miners. That one of them had just been married and that two of them were twins makes it all the more tragic. God bless the departed souls. DS The Monday after Langwang and Thapwang attended a wedding, the 25-year-old identical twins left Oting with their… Read More Justice not about money… punish officers responsible: father of killed Naga miner / Meghalaya to urge Centre to repeal AFSPA / Nagaland killings: Direct marise…they shot right at us, no signal to stop, we did not flee, says ambush survivor

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Bhima Koregaon case: Bombay HC grants default bail to Sudha Bharadwaj, but declines the same to eight other accused

By Sabah Gurmat & Paras Nath Singh    THE Bombay High Court, on Wednesday, allowed the default bail plea of lawyer and trade union activist Sudha Bharadwaj in the Elgar Parishad (Bhima Koregaon) case under Section 167(2) of the Criminal Procedure Code read with Section 43D(2) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), 1967. While granting bail… Read More Bhima Koregaon case: Bombay HC grants default bail to Sudha Bharadwaj, but declines the same to eight other accused

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RAJARAMAN SUNDARESAN: How Odisha Government Kept The Public Out Of A Public Hearing For A Bauxite Mine

How is this a public hearing? Who are they hearing? The police or the barbed wires they have put to keep us out?   See video “In Mali Parbat we grow ice, mandia, kaangu (millets), harvest roots, tubers. Because of its mountain streams, our paddy ripens, our millets ripen.  We are able to collect firewood and produce to take… Read More RAJARAMAN SUNDARESAN: How Odisha Government Kept The Public Out Of A Public Hearing For A Bauxite Mine

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BRAD REED: The walls appear to be "rapidly closing in" on Donald Trump / Chris Hedges – America’s Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy

Investigators are ramping up criminal probes into former President Donald Trump, and two legal experts argue that Trump may not even be able to count on his few remaining lawyers to help him. Writing in the Washington Post, legal experts Donald Ayer and Norm Eisen argue that Trump’s decades-long evasion of legal accountability may now finally be coming to… Read More BRAD REED: The walls appear to be "rapidly closing in" on Donald Trump / Chris Hedges – America’s Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy

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SC restrains Tripura Police from arresting 2 lawyers, journalist booked under UAPA

The plea said that “if the quest for truth and reporting thereof itself is criminalized then the victim in the process is the idea of justice” and that “such circumstances strike at the very foundations of a participative democratic society as it curbs the ‘free flow of information and ideas’… The Supreme Court Wednesday asked… Read More SC restrains Tripura Police from arresting 2 lawyers, journalist booked under UAPA

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Sergei Savelyev: ‘I was always scared’: inmate who exposed systemic Russian prisoner abuse

The videos from the Russian prison hospital are almost too horrific to describe. In the worst, the victims are tied down while other inmates rape or penetrate them with metal objects, the screams and abuse recorded in bodycam footage that was later used as blackmail. Sergey Savelyev says he spent two of his years as an… Read More Sergei Savelyev: ‘I was always scared’: inmate who exposed systemic Russian prisoner abuse

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Mark Neocleous: Whatever happened to martial law? Detainees and the logic of emergency

‘Began teaching the detainee lessons such as stay, come, and bark to elevate his social status up to that of a dog. Detainee became very agitated’: Guantánamo guard diary entry, 20 December 2002 What is a detainee? The term has been given a new lease of life as a result of the authoritarianism that has… Read More Mark Neocleous: Whatever happened to martial law? Detainees and the logic of emergency

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Avay Shukla: SPEAK UP! THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU ANYWAY

Anyone with even an iota of intelligence and an understanding of our dysfunctional legal eco-system knows that there is something deeply problematic and rotten with the Aryan Khan case. The NCB’s (Narcotics Control Bureau) conduct is deeply suspect, even without the personal allegations now levelled against its Zonal Director Sameer Wankhade. The entire case, with… Read More Avay Shukla: SPEAK UP! THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU ANYWAY

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Bhima Koregaon: Kin of jailed activists write to authorities to not discontinue telephone calls / How the ‘anda cell’ is used to discipline prison inmates

NB: After willfully neglecting Fr Stan Swamy‘s bail pleas and subjecting him to unusual punishment without trial, our criminal justice system literally presided over his death in custody. He was 84 years old, weak and ailing; and had suffered enormously in jail. After he died, spokesmen for the government repeated the allegations against him as… Read More Bhima Koregaon: Kin of jailed activists write to authorities to not discontinue telephone calls / How the ‘anda cell’ is used to discipline prison inmates

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