MEDIA RELEASE: 28 September, New Delhi New Delhi: Depositions by representatives of social movements from across the country revealed a familiar pattern of shrinking spaces for democratic dissent. In struggle areas such as Koodankulam, Jaitapur, Odisha and Chhattisgarh the state response has been to use violence and fabricated cases as [...]
Venue: Constitution Club, New Delhi Dates: September 28 – 29, 2012, Friday, Saturday. The nightmare of the infamous Emergency of Mrs. Indira Gandhi was supposed to be over in 1977 when it was lifted after two years due to large scale public protest. Political parties, institutions and individuals who defended [...]
Dear Friend, There is rising concern across the country about the large scale arrests and harassment of Muslim youth by the security forces of the state. Young men are being picked up without explanation, taken into police custody, beaten and tortured and eventually thrown into jail awaiting trial for years [...]
26th June, 2012. Today it is 37 years since Emergency was imposed in 1975. If we see our present times, it is clear that we are under a state of an undeclared emergency with life and liberty of the people of India being the biggest casualty. Just as in 1975 and the [...]
Join the protest on June 26, 2012 in front of Town Hall, Bangalore at 5.30 pm. RESIST SILENT EMERGENCY! Protest on June 26, 2012. Dear friends, The state of Emergency was imposed by the Indian State on June 26,1975 which continued till 1977. During this period, the press was gagged, [...]
Dear friends, On June 26,1975, Emergency was declared in India, robbing citizens of their basic democratic rights and ushering in a dark period of rampant human rights violations all over the country. Arrests of Indian citizens without charge or notification of families, abuse and torture of detainees, media censorship [...]
contributor: Manisha Sethi please find below the letter addressed to the Home Minister, which was due to be submitted to him today by citizens’s group who had planned to demonstrate outside his house today in protest against the unending communal profiling of Muslim youth in the war against terror. However [...]
Two Circles New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry didn’t allow protest demonstration against the picking of innocent Muslim boys. The police detained scores of civil rights activists and eminent citizens within 15 minutes as they gathered outside the official residence of Home Minister P. Chidambaram here at Safdarjang Road on [...]
Dharna at Home Minister’s Residence (18, Safdarjung Road) June 14, 2012 at 11am AISA, Aman Biradari, ANHAD, Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, Centre for Policy Analysis, Champa – The Amiya & B.G. Rao Foundation , Citizens for Democracy, Jamia Teacher’s Solidarity Association, JNUSU, Movement for Empowerment of Muslim Indians (MOEMIN), fabricated.in , NCDHR [...]
Omar Rashid | The Hindu A Sessions court here has questioned the legality of a magisterial court’s powers to extend under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act the remand of journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmed Kazmi, suspected of involvement in the February bomb attack on a car of the Israeli Embassy here. [...]
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