500 Days: Kashmiri Journalist Fahad Shah’s Incarceration Is An Exercise In Assumptions & Retribution

Five hundred days after the Jammu and Kashmir police arrested him, journalist Fahad Shah, 32, remains incarcerated for an article he did not write but published more than 10 years ago as the editor of The Kashmir Walla, a digital news magazine he launched that year aged 21.

#kashmir #FahadShah #TheKashmirWalla #AbdulAlaFazili #PressFreedom #UAPA #FCRA #PublicSafetyAct #DraconianLaws #JKPolice #censorship #journalism #dissent #BJP #NIA #JKSIA #india

https://article-14.com/post/500-days-kashmiri-journalist-fahad-shah-s-incarceration-is-an-exercise-in-assumptions-retribution--648fbd385207e

Layoffs, pay cuts: Inside CPR’s ‘financial crisis’ after FCRA funds, tax exemption axed

Seen as a centrist think tank, the centre has been accused of irregularities in funding.

#CPR #FCRA #BMGF #adani #hasdeo #mining #activism #GatesFoundation #NGOs #thinktanks #research #UnionGovt #india

https://www.newslaundry.com/2023/07/17/layoffs-pay-cuts-inside-cprs-financial-crisis-after-fcra-funds-tax-exemption-axed

#SCOTUS #FCRA

Justices take up Fair Credit Reporting Act case

https://amylhowe.com/2023/06/20/justices-take-up-fair-credit-reporting-act-case/

FCRA licence of Harsh Mander’s think tank suspended because he wrote articles for newspapers

The ministry also accused the Centre for Equity Studies of using foreign contributions to create and release reports authored by non-FCRA associations.

#HarshMander #FCRA #dissent #activism #censorship #MHA #BJP #india

https://scroll.in/latest/1051231/fcra-licence-of-harsh-manders-think-tank-suspended-because-he-wrote-articles-for-newspapers

CBI Case Against Environmental Lawyer Has No Evidence To Back Allegations Made But Will Deter Litigation

The prosecution of Ritwick Dutta, whose law group won what is called an ‘alternative Nobel’ in 2021, will have a chilling effect on environmental litigation and follows a pattern of criminalising civil-society and human-rights activism.

#RitwickDutta #CBI #litigation #LIFE #environment #forests #wildlife #activism #AdaniGroup #adani #AdaniEnterprises#coal #mining #copper #RightLivelihoodAward #NGOs #FCRA #india

https://article-14.com/post/cbi-case-against-environmental-lawyer-has-no-evidence-to-back-allegations-made-but-will-deter-litigation-646442c0bc566

Centre Recommends CBI Inquiry Against Activist Harsh Mander's NGO

Harsh Mander, who was a member of the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council during the previous UPA government, has established Aman Biradari -- "a people's campaign for a secular, peaceful, just and humane world".

#HarshMander #activism #AmanBiradari #NGOs #CBI #MHA #FCRA #GujaratPogrom #GujaratRiots #BJP #UnionGovt #india

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/centre-recommends-cbi-inquiry-against-activist-harsh-manders-ngo-aman-biradari-3877494

Were Chhattisgarh activists protesting Adani the real targets of IT survey at CPR?

Before suspending the FCRA license of the think tank Centre for Policy Research, the income-tax department conducted a months-long investigation that included a strong focus on the protests against coal-mining projects operated by the Adani group in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo Arand region.

#CPR #FCRA #chhattisgarh #HasdeoArand #AdaniGroup #adani #rajasthan #coal #mining #ITsurveys #BJP #INC #activism #india

https://caravanmagazine.in/governance/cpr-survey-it-department-adani-chhattisgarh-coal-mine

Karnataka HC quashes 2018 ED notice to block Amnesty India bank account

Amnesty International India and Indians for Amnesty International Trust had approached the HC over the ED letter. The case was disposed of on Friday.

#amnesty #ED #FEMA #FCRA #BJP #KarnatakaHC #india

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/karnataka-hc-quashes-2018-ed-notice-to-block-amnesty-india-bank-account-8465369/

வெளிநாட்டில் இருந்து 10 லட்சம் ரூபாய் வரை பணம் பெறலாம் FCRA விதிகளை திருத்தியது மத்திய அரசு https://patrikai.com/mha-amends-fcra-rules/ via @patrikaidotcom@twitter.com

#FCRA #MHA #NGO #ForeignFunding #donations

RT @mathew111938@twitter.com

#FCRA @barcouncilindia@twitter.com @BAI1959@twitter.com @awakenindiamvmt@twitter.com @pbhushan1@twitter.com @Indianbarassoci@twitter.com
Which is more dangerous 😳 ❓️Civil society receiving foreign funds or political parties being funded by foreign entities and corporations ❓️
https://theprint.in/judiciary/foreign-donations-not-absolute-right-ngos-should-look-for-indian-donors-sc-rules-on-fcra/908733/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mathew111938/status/1513063034163396608

RT @mathew111938@twitter.com

#FCRA @barcouncilindia@twitter.com @BAI1959@twitter.com @awakenindiamvmt@twitter.com @pbhushan1@twitter.com @Indianbarassoci@twitter.com
Which is more dangerous 😳 ❓️Civil society receiving foreign funds or political parties being funded by foreign entities and corporations ❓️
https://theprint.in/judiciary/foreign-donations-not-absolute-right-ngos-should-look-for-indian-donors-sc-rules-on-fcra/908733/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mathew111938/status/1513063034163396608

What happened to the #FCRA case in the Supreme Court of India?

Is there any progress on the #Pegasus case?

Will the #electoralbonds case ever be heard?

Does anyone track these things systematically?

What happened to the #FCRA case in the Supreme Court of India?

Is there any progress on the #Pegasus case?

Will the #electoralbonds case ever be heard?

Does anyone track these things systematically?

In an ideal world, this should also simultaneously challenge the blanket FCRA exemption given to PM Cares Fund, given the absolute opacity surrounding that fund.

RT @barandbench@twitter.com

Plea before Supreme Court challenges non-renewal of FCRA licenses of 6,000 NGOs

report by @AB_Hazardous@twitter.com

#SupremeCourt #fcra

Read story: https://bityl.co/AZsy

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/barandbench/status/1484062500949983232

What happened in this case subsequently?

RT @barandbench@twitter.com

Matter adjourned to November 9, 2021

#SupremeCourt #FCRA

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/barandbench/status/1453625286168223747

The Supreme Court has just reserved judgment on the matter of constitutional validity of the 2020 amendment #FCRA (which is about foreign funding of NGOs in India).

Foreign Funding of Indian Elections, a far more serious danger to Indian Democracy somehow doesn't get that love.

Anonymous Electoral Bonds, SG?
Foreign Funding of Indian Elections, SG?
PM Cares Fund, SG?
Rafale Deal, SG?
Demonetization details, SG?
Sealed Envelopes to the Supreme Court, SG?

If "I have nothing to hide", then what is the problem in letting the public know everything?

RT @barandbench@twitter.com

SG: If i have nothing to hide then what is the problem in following the law. #supremecourt #FCRA

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/barandbench/status/1457959470823211008

RT @barandbench@twitter.com

ASG: People of this country have donated largely and liberally. It is no more an era where average income of people was low. This dynamics have to be taken note of. Now domestic contribution is also large. #FCRA

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/barandbench/status/1453624413966856193

RT @barandbench@twitter.com

ASG: Suppose two NGOs have similar objective. One in Delhi and one in Imphal. Suppose in Imphal they could not get funds, the donor of the Delhi NGO can send the fund by domestic route and that is not restricted.

#FCRA

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/barandbench/status/1453622289988087816