New Delhi, 2 July 2020: The Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) today urged the Governor of Assam Professor Jagdish Mukhi not to give assent to the Ordinance approved by the Assam State Cabinet to allow MSMEs to set up industries without any kind of permission or license for three years solely on the basis […]
Mirror Now 01 July 2020 #NoDignityInDeath | If someone dies in hospital due to #COVID, hospital authorities have to inform family, & only then can undertake the burial. Family members can’t touch the body & have to maintain distance: @ChakmaSuhas, Director – Rights & Risks Analysis Group to @tanvishukla pic.twitter.com/tJaNWqVGS8 — Mirror Now (@MirrorNow) July […]
Media oppression is a shifting landscape By Sevanti Ninan, The Telegraph India 29 June 2020 For some years now, the growing challenge to journalism has come from the increasing use of predictable laws. These are the Sections relating to sedition and criminal defamation in the Indian Penal Code and, until it was struck down in […]
Live Law / View in PDF Version28 June 2020 “Custodial death is one of the worst crimes in a civilised society governed by Rule of Law. Does a citizen shed off his fundamental right to life, the moment a policeman arrests him? Can the right to life of a citizen be put in abeyance on […]
Live Law / View in PDF Version in Hindi28 June 2020 कानून द्वारा शासित एक सभ्य समाज में कस्टडी में मौत सबसे बुरे अपराधों में से एक है। जब एक पुलिसकर्मी किसी नागरिक को गिरफ्तार करता है, तब क्या उसके जीवन के मौलिक अधिकार समाप्त हो जाते हैं? क्या नागरिक के जीवन के अधिकार को […]
The Wire 24 June 2020 Days before his killing, Shubham Mani Tripathi had informed authorities that he had been threatened by persons involved in illegal sand mining and land encroachment activities. New Delhi: A reporter for a Kanpur-based newspaper was killed on June 19 in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh, allegedly at the behest of a […]
The Week By Puja Awasthi, June 23, 2020 The Peoples’ Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has issued a statement demanding that criminalising free speech should be stopped and journalism should be protected. The statement draws attention to many journalists facing police complaints under various laws, including the Disaster Management Act, SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, […]
The Scroll 23 June 2020 While PUCL called the charges ‘bizarre’, PEN International said that the FIR showed that the real intention of the Indian state was to stifle dissent. Human rights organisation People’s Union of Civil Liberties and global writers’ association PEN International on Tuesday condemned the first information report filed against Scroll.in Executive Editor Supriya […]
Vinavu By சுகுமார் -June 23, 2020 இந்த கொரோனா ஊரடங்கு காலத்தில் குறைந்தது 10 ஊடகவியலாளர்கள் கைது செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளனர். மேலும் 4 பேர் உச்சநீதிமன்றத்தால் கைது நடவடிக்கையிலிருந்து விடுவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளனர். சமீபத்தில் மோடியின் வாரணாசி தொகுதியில் ஊரடங்கினால் மக்களுக்கு ஏற்பட்டிருக்கும் சிரமங்களை பதிவு செய்ததற்காக ஸ்க்ரோல் இணைய தளத்தின் நிர்வாக ஆசிரியர் சுப்ரியா சர்மா மீது முதல் தகவல் அறிக்கையை உ.பி போலீசு பதிவு செய்திருக்கிறது. ஊரடங்கின் போது மக்கள் படும் துன்ப துயரங்களையும், அரசு இயந்திரத்தின் நிர்வாக சீர்கேடுகளையும், […]
The Wire 22 June 2020 A bare scrutiny of the two documents used to register an FIR against the report shows that the alleged offences invoked are ex-facie not made out. The registration of an FIR against Supriya Sharma, executive editor of the Scroll by the Uttar Pradesh Police under Sections 3(1) (d) and 3(1)(r) of the Scheduled Caste […]