Tag: justice

Chakshu Roy: Over the years, poets, students, and even a village have been booked under the sedition law

‘And then again there are such as consider it virtuous to say, “Virtue is necessary”; but at bottom they believe only that the police is necessary’: Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra.    Indian Governments past and present have used a colonial-era law to charge many more ‘seditious’ men and women, most recently during the farmer… Read More Chakshu Roy: Over the years, poets, students, and even a village have been booked under the sedition law

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भीमा कोरेगांव मामले में 'सबूत' प्लांट किए जाने का वाशिंगटन पोस्ट का दावा // Evidence planted in Bhima Koregaon accused Rona Wilson's computer: US firm

महाराष्ट्र के पुणे में भीमा कोरोगांव में 2018 में हुई हिंसा के सिलसिले में हुई जाँच और गिरफ़्तारियाँ एक नई रिपोर्ट के आने के बाद अंतरराष्ट्रीय मीडिया में सुर्खियों में है. अमेरिका के प्रतिष्ठित समाचार पत्र ‘दवाशिंगटन पोस्ट‘ ने अमेरिका की एक साइबर फ़ोरेंसिक लैब की जाँच रिपोर्ट के आधार पर दावा किया है कि इस… Read More भीमा कोरेगांव मामले में 'सबूत' प्लांट किए जाने का वाशिंगटन पोस्ट का दावा // Evidence planted in Bhima Koregaon accused Rona Wilson's computer: US firm

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Martin Chulov: Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul released from prison // Bill Law: Can America’s Favorite Police State ever Change?

NB: The fact that this activist has been forbidden to talk about her experience in jail, where she was molested and beaten shows that the Saudi Arabia is one of the most viciously misogynistic regimes in the world. We should never forget the brutal murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi. DS The prominent Saudi dissident and women’s… Read More Martin Chulov: Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul released from prison // Bill Law: Can America’s Favorite Police State ever Change?

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Alexei Navalny: 1,000 arrested after protests over jailing of Russian opposition leader

A Moscow court has sentenced Alexei Navalny to two years and eight months in a prison colony in a landmark decision for Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on the country’s leading opposition figure. The move triggered marches in Moscow and the arrest of more than 1,000 protesters. Navalny, who has accused the Russian president and his allies… Read More Alexei Navalny: 1,000 arrested after protests over jailing of Russian opposition leader

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Samar Halarnkar: The mass radicalisation that India does not acknowledge / Ruchir Joshi: A verdict on the republic

It is now clear that if you are Muslim in Narendra Modi’s new India you can be arrested for selling shoes, taking part in a protest, talking to or walking with a Hindu girl, driving a cattle truck, cracking a joke – or not. If you are a Muslim in the wrong place at the… Read More Samar Halarnkar: The mass radicalisation that India does not acknowledge / Ruchir Joshi: A verdict on the republic

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Press Conference to condemn the Arrest and Sexual Violence of Nodeep Kaur by Haryana Police. 3 pm on Saturday, 23 January 2021. Press Club of India, New Delhi

Press Conference Condemning Nodeep Kaur’s Arrest and Custodial Sexual Violence by Haryana Police Date: January 23rd, 2021 (Saturday) Time: 3 pm Venue: Press Club of India (1, Raisina Road, Near Central Secretariat Metro, Windsor Place, New Delhi, Delhi 110001) Campaign for the Release of Nodeep Kaur! On January 12th, as the Kisan Andolan continued unabated, Nodeep Kaur, a… Read More Press Conference to condemn the Arrest and Sexual Violence of Nodeep Kaur by Haryana Police. 3 pm on Saturday, 23 January 2021. Press Club of India, New Delhi

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Satarupa Chakraborty: CJI's Remarks on Women Farmers Are an Assault on Human Agency and Constitutional Rights / Pratap Bhanu Mehta: SC’s order on the farm bills is terrible constitutional precedent, bereft of judgment

Chastising the Centre for its handling of the farmers’ protest, the Supreme Court on January 11 observed that it will not pass an order that “citizens should not protest”. This was encouraging. But subsequent remarks made by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) S.A. Bobde, have given cause for concern. He asked: “Why are women and elders kept in the… Read More Satarupa Chakraborty: CJI's Remarks on Women Farmers Are an Assault on Human Agency and Constitutional Rights / Pratap Bhanu Mehta: SC’s order on the farm bills is terrible constitutional precedent, bereft of judgment

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Munawar Faruqui: Real Villain is Divisive Heartland Politics, Not Stand-up Comics. By PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR

The story behind the arrest of Gujarat stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui in Indore on New Year’s Day is a clear display of proto-fascist muscle-power by the local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator and the city’s former mayor Malini Singh Gaur’s son, Eklavya Singh Gaur. They interrupted a show at Café Monroe and the police arrested Faruqui and… Read More Munawar Faruqui: Real Villain is Divisive Heartland Politics, Not Stand-up Comics. By PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR

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Watch/hear stinging denunciation of Modi regime and its sabotage of justice at Kisan protest

Watch Bhanu Pratap Singh‘s stinging denunciation of Modi regime and its sabotage of justice at Kisan protest.  Bhanu Pratap is an Advocate practicing in the Supreme Court of India.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8-Wro34hKk Indian Farmers’ Protest – Work in progress videos Amit Bhaduri: Faces in mirror held up by farmers’ protest   Discussion on Indian Agriculture and the ongoing Kisan agitation… Read More Watch/hear stinging denunciation of Modi regime and its sabotage of justice at Kisan protest

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Avani Bansal: Raid on Mehmood Pracha’s Office: India’s Hans Litten Moment?

The Indian legal community seems to have witnessed its own ‘Hans Litten’ moment as Advocate Mehmood Pracha’s office was raided by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police this week. Hitler hated lawyers, but one lawyer whose name couldn’t even be mentioned in Hitler’s presence was that of Hans Achim Litten. He opposed the Nazis at… Read More Avani Bansal: Raid on Mehmood Pracha’s Office: India’s Hans Litten Moment?

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