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India: Media’s Crackdown During COVID-19 Lockdown

SUMMARY: The Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) in this report states that about 55 journalists faced arrest, registration of FIRs, summons or show causes notices, physical assaults, alleged destruction of properties and threats for reportage on COVID-19 or exercising freedom of opinion and expression during the national lockdown from 25 March to 31 May […]

PRESS RELEASE: ABOUT 70,000 DISPLACED, MANIPUR’S RIOTS DESTABILSING NORTH EAST’S REGIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

Two months of riots since 3 May 2023 after the protest by the All Tribal Students’ Union of Manipur over the issue of grant of Scheduled Tribes (ST) status to the Meiteis turned violent, ethnic riots between the Meiteis and the Kukis in Manipur has turned into a full scale civil war, destabilising peace and security […]

PRESS RELEASE: Former Prime Minister Hasina and her colleagues’ conviction is a farce, miscarriage of justice for the victims as real perpetrators are not being punished

The conviction of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal with death and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun with five years imprisonment by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal is a political farce, does not meet basic international standards for fair trial, and is a miscarriage of justice for […]