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Ganga News - Delhi Court Begins Hearing UAPA Case Against Umar Khalid : Ganga News

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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.

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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?

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Newslaundry - From judge’s recusal to lawyer’s unavailability: Umar Khalid’s bail plea hangs by thread

From judge’s recusal to lawyer’s unavailability: Umar Khalid’s bail plea hangs by thread

In jail since September 2020, Khalid’s bail plea was adjourned until next week on Tuesday.

newslaundry.com/2023/09/05/fro

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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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Live Law - Courts Remain Silent Spectators As Minorities Remain In Fear Amidst Rise Of Illiberal, Communal Forces:...

Courts Remain Silent Spectators As Minorities Remain In Fear Amidst Rise Of Illiberal, Communal Forces: Justice (Retired) AP Shah

Justice (Retired) AP Shah recently expressed concerns over the rise of ‘illiberal and communal’ forces in the country, fuelled by extremist ideologies, and the attendant culture of hate, polarisation, and vilification of minorities, particularly Muslims, taking root across the nation. He also raised apprehensions about the weakening of formal institutions like the courts in India as well as the erosion of public trust in them.

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Fabricated Evidence, Tutored Witnesses, Malicious Prosecution: How Police Lied & Subverted Path To Justice

Fabricated Evidence, Tutored Witnesses, Malicious Prosecution: How Police Lied & Subverted Path To Justice

Though perjury, or lying under oath, and fabrication of evidence remain widespread in India’s justice system, prosecutions for the two offences are rare. In the first of a two-part series, Article14 analyses five recent court judgements that reveal how the police followed a similar modus operandi of submitting false evidence in court in an atmosphere of impunity.

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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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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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Why Muslims feel let down by Supreme Court

The deeply disappointing verdict in the Ayodhya title suit, go-ahead for the survey of Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque and constant talk of uniform civil code are just some of the reasons. Ajaz Ashraf writes.

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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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The Wire - Umar Khalid, the Historian: His Continued Imprisonment Is a Loss to the Academic World

Umar Khalid, the Historian: His Continued Imprisonment Is a Loss to the Academic World

Even for someone who worked extensively on Adivasi history, his thesis 'Contesting Claims and Contingencies of Rule: Singhbhum 1800 – 2000' offers new insights, writes Nandini Sundar.

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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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The ‘half negative’ and other graphic memories of legendary Kashmiri photojournalist Meraj Ud Din

His rich archive of images bears painful witness to decades of strife as the territory endures a new era of censorship and erasure, writes Freny Maneckshaw.

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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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Narendra Modi Is Using Brutal Repression to Silence the People of Kashmir

Narendra Modi Is Using Brutal Repression to Silence the People of Kashmir

For decades, the Indian state has suppressed the democratic rights of Kashmiris. Narendra Modi’s hard-right government is taking this pattern of repression to new extremes, with the complicity of Indian intellectuals who seek to toxify the cause of Kashmir.

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‘Do you eat beef? Did you study at JNU’ — Kappan’s first-person account of his arrest

Speaking for the first time since he was released on bail, Siddique Kappan told a packed hall in Kolkata about how he feels like he is still in an open-air prison.

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