Draconian Laws, State Impunity and the Illegal Arrests - Press Conference at Press Club of India, New Delhi on 2 February 2019. [caption id="attachment_8484" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Draconian Laws, State Impunity and the Illegal Arrests -…
INDIA: Yet another illegal arrest and disappearance in…
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from Human Rights Alert (HRA) concerning the case of arrest and subsequent disappearance of yet another person in Manipur. A team of military officers, suspected to…
Binayak Sen Case :Honourable High Court Decides Criminal…
Binayak Sen and Piyush Guha have appealed there conviction by sessions court Raipur under Sedition and Conspiracy charges at the Honourable High Court of Chhattisgarh – Bilaspur. They had also filed criminal appeal No. 20…
A brief report on the recent ‘encounter killings’…
pucl report Beginning with the last week of December 2010, there has been a series of ‘encounters’, in which over twenty five people, allegedly Maoists, have been killed in Orissa. Except a few, the…
Jaipur explosion: Victim relatives demanding reinvestigation
Kotta: Rajasthan, "my father is an innocent, he doesn’t done any crime he is a teacher, how a teacher can become a terrorist” Shaheen said. She is an eight year old daughter of Mr.Illyas, who…
Hindu fair focusing on conversions begins peacefully
By ucanews.com Christians in central India have expressed relief as the first day of a Hindu festival passed peacefully. “We are relieved that so far no untoward incident has happened on the first day,” said…
Remembering Shahid Azmi, the Shaheed: Mahtab Alam
Guest post by MAHTAB ALAMIt must have been around nine pm on 11th February last year. The nightfall and Delhi’s infamous wintry chill ensured that I stayed indoors at the mercy of closed walls and…
Md. Salman discharged from the 2008 Delhi Blasts…
Md. Salman, arrested by the Uttar Pradesh ATS from Siddharthnagar on 6 March 2010, was accused of being a conspirator in the 2008 Delhi blasts. Today (5th February 2011), additional sessions Judge Ms. Santosh Snehi…