The News Mill Published on 26 June 2020 The National Campaign Against Torture (NCAT) in its ‘India: Annual Report on Torture 2019′ released on June 26 on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture stated that a total of 1,731 persons died in custody during 2019 – death of about […]
New Delhi, 26 June: The National Campaign Against Torture (NCAT) in its “India: Annual Report on Torture 2019” released today on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture stated that a total of 1,731 persons died in custody during 2019 i.e. death of about five persons daily. These included 1,606 […]
India’s Covid-19 Lockdown: Unprovoked Police Beating, Unwarranted Deaths & Uninterrupted Repression report provides detailed description and analysis of arrest, torture and deaths at the hands of police; deaths of the migrant workers while returning home; repression on doctors, journalists and activists during Covid-19 in India; and examines the role of the judiciary during the pandemic.
Table of Contents The lockdown count during the 1st week: Brutal assault of over 173 persons & at least 27 lockdown related deaths Emblematic cases of torture and inhumane and degrading treatment during the 1st week of the lockdown Details of 27 lockdown related deaths during the 1st week 1. The lockdown count during the […]
The Straits Times Published on 20 March 2020 NEW DELHI – Four rapists convicted for the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman on a moving off-duty private bus in Delhi in 2012 were hanged Friday morning, bringing to close a long-drawn and painful case in India. The brutal assault triggered widespread outrage across the […]
The four men, who were convicted to death in 2013, were executed at Tihar Jail after their clemency pleas were rejected. Aljazeera Published on 20 March 2020 India executed four men on Friday for the gang rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that sparked huge nationwide protests and international revulsion. The four […]
NEW DELHI: Four convicts of the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case i.e. Mukesh Singh, Akshay Singh Thakur, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma were hanged in New Delhi’s Tihar jail this morning (20th March 2020). “Though the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case shakes conscience of the humanity for the sheer barbarity, death penalty does not act as a […]
The Hindu 19 March 2020 ‘They are defined as illegal immigrants, shall remain liable for deportation’ A New Delhi-based rights group has said that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 has made about 6,00,000 refugees in India forever stateless and vulnerable to refoulement. The CAA prescribes citizenship for six non-Muslim communities which took refuge in India from Afghanistan, Bangladesh […]
अमर उजाला, नई दिल्ली Updated Wed, 18 Mar 2020 सार पाक, अफगान और बांग्लादेश से आए हिंदू, बौद्ध, सिख या इसाई पीड़ितों को ही नागरिकता का है प्रस्ताव अन्य जगहों के लगभग छह लाख शरणार्थी रहते हैं भारत में विस्तार भारत में पाकिस्तान, अफगानिस्तान और बांग्लादेश के अलावा, श्रीलंका, म्यांमार और तिब्बत जैसी अनेक जगहों […]
NEW DELHI: The National Campaign Against Torture (NCAT) today (18 March 2020) stated that about 6,00,000 refugees in India have been made forever stateless and remain at risks of refoulement because of their exclusion from the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA) which grants citizenship only to the Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from […]
