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Is India Still a Democracy? Political Prisoners Tell Their Stories

During the three-year-long trial against Professor GN Saibaba and the other men, which ran from 2014 to 2017, the prosecution produced no real evidence. Of 23 witnesses presented before the court by the prosecution, 22 were police officers. The only civilian witness retracted his confession after claiming it resulted from torture. While Saibaba’s health deteriorated in prison, Rahi, the social activist and journalist, alleged that he, Mishra, Narote, and Mahesh Tirki were tortured in custody by investigating officer Suhas Bawache.

time.com/6305728/voices-of-pol

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Inside Odisha's Crackdown on Adivasis: Bauxite Mining, UAPA, and Forest Act

What explains the state crackdown on Dalit-adivasi activists in south Odisha's Bauxite-rich districts?

thequint.com/news/india/odisha

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Scroll.in - J&K Police objects to BBC article on Kashmir media situation, says it has right to take legal action

J&K Police objects to BBC article on Kashmir media situation, says it has right to take legal action

The article titled ‘Any story could be your last – India’s crackdown on Kashmir press’ was published on Friday.

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Court orders release of Kashmiri student languishing in Haryana jail

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has quashed the detention of a South Kashmir student under the controversial Public Safety Act (PSA). The accused was put behind the bars without an FIR.

thekashmiriyat.co.uk/court-ord

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Are the new criminal law bills really anti-colonial? Here’s why experts say no

Home Minister Amit Shah promised that the bills would overhaul our criminal justice system. However, the proposed reforms may be colonial in spirit too.

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Scroll.in - The blocking of ‘The Kashmir Walla’ underscores India’s draconian censorship of the internet

The blocking of ‘The Kashmir Walla’ underscores India’s draconian censorship of the internet

The government’s powers to censor online content have been further boosted by a Karnataka High Court order and a new data protection law.

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GN Saibaba’s detention is ‘inhumane and senseless’ says UN Special Rapporteur

The former professor was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017 for allegedly having links to the banned Communist Party of India (Maoists).

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

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.

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Scroll.in - NIA says bail condition for Bhima Koregaon accused violates privacy of investigating officers

NIA says bail condition for Bhima Koregaon accused violates privacy of investigating officers

The Supreme Court had told Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves to pair their mobile phones with those of the investigating officers.

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Home Minister Amit Shah Says Sedition Is Dead. But Its Replacement Is More Fearsome Than The Colonial Law Ever Was

The proposed Clause 150 meant to replace Section 124A, or sedition, proposes that the government and the nation are the same thing—as God, king and country once were under colonial rule—and the ambiguity, legislative intent and punishment are stronger than the old law. Article14 analysis shows how the problems we faced with sedition will continue if the proposed Clause 150 becomes law.

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Sedition law is not gone, it’s set to be more draconian

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill, brought to replace the colonial-era Indian Penal Code, could make the current sedition law wider but without the safeguards that courts have created so far.

indianexpress.com/article/opin

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Scroll.in - The price that Umar Khalid is paying for dissenting in Modi’s India

The price that Umar Khalid is paying for dissenting in Modi’s India

The activist has been in prison for nearly three years, awaiting trial. Sonia Faleiro writes.

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Modi Govt Unveils Controversial New Criminal Bills: 'Sedition' Law to Change But in Name Only

Although Amit Shah said sedition law has been 'repealed', it appears only the word 'sedition' may have been dropped, for the law remains and, in many ways, has been made more draconian.

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Scroll.in - ‘Draconian provisions’: Editors Guild raises concern over Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill

'Draconian provisions': Editors Guild raises concern over Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill

The Bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on August 1 and was passed two days later by a voice vote.

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Hindustan Times - Bhima Koregaon bail curbs State impunity

Bhima Koregaon bail curbs State impunity

The SC’s decision to grant bail to Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira attempts to infuse some measure of due process into the stringent provisions of UAPA, writes Gautam Bhatia.

hindustantimes.com/opinion/bhi

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Bhima Koregaon: Key evidence against jailed activists planted using malware, says forensic report

The report found that an attacker used malware to infiltrate activist Rona Wilson’s laptop before his arrest, and deposited at least 10 incriminating letters. (Article from February 2021)

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Bhima Koregaon case: Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira granted bail by Supreme Court

The activists had moved the Supreme Court after they were denied bail by the Bombay High Court.

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1000 Days Without Trial Or Bail For Umar Khalid, Denied Bail Despite False Allegations, Fabrications & Inconsistencies — Article 14

1000 Days Without Trial Or Bail For Umar Khalid, Denied Bail Despite False Allegations, Fabrications & Inconsistencies

PhD student Umar Khalid completes 1,000 days in jail without a trial, Article 14 revisited the fabrications, inconsistencies and conjectures that vitiate the Delhi riots conspiracy case but are still not enough for him to get bail because judges, as experts point out, interpret draconian laws in unyielding fashion. Police witnesses against the 35-year-old have been shown as unreliable, unproven allegations have been dropped, and the police have used partial truths and communally tainted arguments in his prosecution.

article-14.com/post/1000-days-

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Telangana police charged retired UoH Prof Haragopal, OU’s Padmaja Shaw, 150 others under UAPA last August; accused ‘unaware’

Court trial reveals that Telangana police filed a case under UAPA against 152 prominent human rights activists, retired professors, scholars. They have been accused of conspiring to “take over the power of the democratically elected government at gunpoint”.

thesouthfirst.com/telangana/te

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The Elgar Parishad 16 Must Not Be Forgotten

The case represents what the government can do to well-meaning people who speak up against atrocities, and who stand up for the weak and dispossessed. For this reason alone, they are seen as enemies of the state and kept in prison for as long as the government can manage, writes Aakar Patel.

thewire.in/rights/bhima-korega

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