Police Torture - A Dirty Form of State Terror New Delhi28-Jun-2020 Police Torture - A Dirty Form of State Terror In the same week that the world marked International Day in Support of Victims of…
INDIA: Act now, stop pretending!
AHRC-STM-084-2011 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the Occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, June 26, 2011 Three years have elapsed since the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan…
Don’t underplay top RSS leader's role in Samjhauta…
Don’t underplay Indresh’s role in Samjhauta blast Mail Today, 22 June 2011 IT would appear that the National Investigation Agency ( NIA), which on Monday filed a chargesheet against Asimanand and four other Hindutva terrorists…
Gujarat: HC orders CBI probe in Sadiq Jamal…
D.P. Bhattacharya 18 june 2011 Sadiq was killed near the Galaxy Cinema in the Naroda area in Ahmedabad on January 13, 2003 by Ahmedabad Crime Branch officers led by D. G. Vanzara, who is already…
Activists meet National Minorities Commission Chairperson, NCM to…
18 june 2011 A team of civil rights activists today met with the Chairperson of the National Minorities Commission, Mr. Wajahat Habibullah, to express anger and distress over the police firing in Forbesganj—in which four…
The discreet charm of civil society
By P. Sainath 17 june 2011 There is nothing wrong in having advisory groups. But there is a problem when groups not constituted legally cross the line of demands, advice and rights-based, democratic agitation. The…
Duped and exploited: Orissa’s migrant workers
Sudarshan Chhotray 17 june 2011 Close to 2 million people migrate out of Orissa in search of work every year. Only 50,000 of them are registered with the authorities, making it difficult to protect these…
Ramdev is not Gandhi
17 june 2011 Baba Ramdev is not Mohandas Gandhi. Ramdev’s technique of protest may confuse those who know as much about Gandhi as Munnabhai did at the start of the popular 2006 film, Lage Raho Munnabhai…
PAKISTAN: Catholic woman kidnapped, drugged, and forced to…
marry a Muslim may now be sold abroad In Pakistan, our "friend and ally," "at least 700 Christian girls are kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam every year." And sold abroad or not, any…