The New Indian Express 01 September 2019 Fear, anxiety and panic takes centre stage in Assam after the National Register of Citizens published its final list; families left torn apart as names slip and disappear. Atense Geeta Rani Paul (65) says she will consume poison but will not go to a detention camp for illegal […]
Money Control 27 August 2019 The fear of being marked as a foreigner and its consequences after the final list of Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) is published, has mentally affected the people in the state who are excluded from its final draft. As many as 89 percent of these people have been suffering […]
Guwahati Plus 26 August 2019 GUWAHATI: A survey by the National Campaign Against Torture (NCAT) has revealed that of the 41 lakh people excluded from Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC), about 89 percent of them suffer from extreme mental torture in fear of being tagged a foreigner and the consequences that follow thereafter. The report […]
The Hindu 24 August 2019 They are unable to cope with the fear of deportation, separation from family members, it says. About 89% of the more than 41 lakh people excluded from Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) have been suffering from extreme mental torture because of the fear of being marked as a foreigner […]
Nagaland Post 24 August 2019 Around 89% of the more than 41 lakh people left out of the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) list have been suffering from acute mental torture. According to a survey conducted by the National Campaign Against Torture (NCAT), the fear of being marked as a foreigner and its consequences […]
APN News 24 August 2019 By Bhupen Goswami Guwahati : In a shocking (but not entirely unexpected revelation), it has been discovered that about 89% who have been excluded from the National Register of Citizens (NRC) are suffering from anxiety. This staggering figure has been revealed by a survey by the National Campaign Against Torture […]
The New Indian Express 23 August 2019 Around 37 lakh of over 41 lakh people excluded from NRC have been suffering from extreme mental torture due to the fear of being identified as foreigners, says rights body NCAT. GUWAHATI: Human rights body National Campaign Against Torture (NCAT) has claimed that around 37 lakh or 89% […]
New Delhi: Releasing its report, “Assam’s NRC: Four Million Tales of Mental Torture, Trauma & Humiliation”, containing the survey on the state of mental health of those excluded from the National Register of Citizens (NRC), the National Campaign Against Torture (NCAT) stated that about 37 lakhs or 89% of over 41 lakhs excluded from the […]
Andhra Pradesh has been infamous for extrajudicial executions in the context of countering the Naxalites. Torture has been an integral part. The National Human Rights Commission registered cases against 80 deaths in police custody during 2009-2010 to 2018-19, six cases of custodial rapes reported between 2014 and 2016 and 765 deaths in judicial custody. Apart […]
Blitz 04 July 2019 Vijaya Laxmi Tripura An organization named ‘Campaign Against Torture in India’ has called upon to ratify the United NGO Campaign Against Torture (UNCAT). The “Campaign Against Torture in India” while releasing “India: Annual Report on Torture 2018” on the United Nations Day Against Torture stated that during 2018, a total of 1,966 custodial deaths […]
