Category Political Prisoners
By PRASANNA D ZOREJune 17, 2020 10:36 ISTGet Rediff News in your Inbox:email ‘If you don’t have any proof about her crime, then how can you keep her in jail?’ On August 28, 2020, the respected lawyer and human rights activist Sudha… Continue Reading →
US lawyers’ group criticises Safoora Zargar’s continued detention ABA said her detention doesn’t appear to meet international human rights standards] June 13, 2020 11:54 ISTSafoora Zargar | Facebook The incarceration of student-activist Safoora Zargar has been in the headlines ever since… Continue Reading →
By Kirsteen Paterson Jagtar Singh Johal has been in police custody in India for over two years ‘IT’S been two weeks for us and we’re moaning about it. My brother’s been in jail for 940 days. Imagine what it’s like for… Continue Reading →
*STOP CRIMINALIZING DISSENT!* PINJRA TOD We strongly condemn the decision to deny bail to Safoora Zargar, an MPhil student at Jamia Milia Islamia, a member of the JCC and among the strongest voices of women students in the university. Safoora’s… Continue Reading →
New Delhi, May 31 (PTI) Two former information commissioners have written to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to release 80-year-old Telugu poet P Varavara Rao, who is in judicial custody in Bhima Koregaon case, on humanitarian grounds. In their letter,… Continue Reading →
Court asks JJ Hospital to submit report on P Varavara Rao’s health Rao’s family approached the special court on Saturday for direction to JJ Hospital for his detailed medical report. The activist, who has various ailments, was taken to the… Continue Reading →
Posted On May 29, 2020 The High Court was scheduled to hear Navlakha’s bail application on May 27, but he was moved to Taloja Jail in Mumbai. The Delhi High Court on Wednesday criticised the National Investigation Agency for its… Continue Reading →
NEW DELHI, MAY 28 He had surrendered before NIA on April 14 for his alleged involvement in Bhima-Koregaon riots of 2018 Civil rights campaigner Gautam Navlakha was taken to a Mumbai jail by the National Investigation Agency on Tuesday, a day… Continue Reading →
Nandini Sundar May 26, 2020 01:36 pm IST The recent arrests of Jamia student Asif Iqbal Tanha and two JNU students, Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal, both activists with Pinjra Tod, shows that the union home ministry is convinced the… Continue Reading →
Jyoti Punwani FROM THE SHADOWS OF DISSENT Susan Abraham with husband Vernon Gonsalves, an accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, and son Sagar, in May 2017By Jyoti Punwani On Friday morning, the Bombay High Court rejected the parole application of… Continue Reading →