SHUT UP THE VOICES OF DISSENT
The Telegraph
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By detaining Binayak Sen for months, is the State sending out an ominous signal to those who work for human rights? asks Rajashri Dasgupta
t is a ploy undertaken by the State, time and again, to browbeat dissent and distract attention from its own misdeeds. Since May 14 last year, Binayak Sen, a pediatrician who [...]
Ajay TG: Hauled up for no fault : Combat Law
Combatlaw
For over three months, an innocent film-maker and people’s rights defender Ajay TG is being targeted by Chhattisgarh police and administration to the extent of being virtually robbed of his livelihood since his computer and other belongings have been seized after a police raid at his house on the pretext that these may have “incriminating [...]
RIGHTS-INDIA: State-Sponsored Repression, Say Human Rights Activists
BANGALORE, Jun 3 (IPS) – The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), a 32-year-old Indian human- rights group, has decried India’s judiciary for refusing bail to ‘jungle doctor’ and human rights activist Binayak Sen. Sen is widely-respected for his 30 years of healthcare work among tribals in the central Indian State of [...]
India fares badly in new Amnesty report: NDTV Report
NDTV Correspondent
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 (New Delhi)
Amnesty International on Wednesday came out with its annual report on human rights abuses across the world.
India fared badly with Amnesty saying that despite many types of human rights abuses occurring in the country, the government failed to protect the rights of its people effectively.
And for the first time, [...]
Bastar among India’s 10 most backward districts
IANS
Raipur, May 21 (IANS) Chhattisgarh’s worst insurgency-hit tribal dominated Bastar and Dantewada districts are among the 10 most backward districts of the country, said a report released by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). The CSE, a Delhi-based environmental organisation, in a 365-page report released Tuesday evening here, said “the iron-ore bearing districts of [...]
