NCHRO pleads for the release on parole of Aged, Ill or Handicapped Prisoners New Delhi 26 March 2020 NCHRO welcomes the order issued by the Supreme Court of India to consider releasing the prisoners and…
My book is a form of protest: Arun…
5 October 2014 By Kareena Gilani Colours Of The Cage is an unsparing account of the nearly five years activist Arun Ferreira lost forever in Nagpur Central Jail after being accused of being a Naxalite.…
SC orders release of undertrial prisoners languishing in…
7 September 2014 New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday ordered release of all undertrial prisoners who have spent half of the maximum sentence prescribed for the offences they are charged with, bringing much needed…
Prisoner ends hunger strike after a week in…
25 July 2014 After fasting for more than a week to get a writ petition filed in Calcutta High Court, alleged Maoist leader Anup Roy ended his hunger strike at Presidency Correctional Centre here…
Arbitrary Detention in Asia
The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) and its sister organisation, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), have documented numerous arbitrary detentions throughout the Asian region in the year preceding the 13th session of the Human…
Lajpat Nagar blast case on for 13 years,…
New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) More than 13 years have passed but the ten accused in Delhi's Lajpat Nagar blast of 1996 are still waiting for justice and have now written letters to the home…
34 Burmese in Indian jail
Mae Sot (Mizzima) – As the statements of 34 Arakanese and Karen rebels were finally submitted to a Kolkata court on September 17, Burmese pro-democracy groups continue to proclaim the defendants innocence amid questions as…
Kobad Ghandy was not resposible for violence, says…
MUMBAI: Extremely intense and committed to the cause, Kobad Ghandy —described as a Maoist leader by the Delhi police who arrested him last Sunday — returned to India to work among the downtrodden unlike many…
Day of Political Prisoners
NAGPUR: Though their numbers are not clear, it is learnt that some jail inmates went on a one-day hunger strike on Sunday which was also observed as the 'day of the political prisoners'. The hunger-strike…