IndiaSpend 26 October 2020 New Delhi: On June 19, 2020, traders P Jayaraj and his son J Bennicks were arrested and detained in Sathankulam police station in southern Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi district for allegedly violating COVID-19 lockdown rules. Three days later, Bennicks died in hospital, followed by Jayaraj’s death the next day. They had allegedly endured hours of beating […]
Deccan Herald 12 October 2020 By Shemin Joy This is including nearly 33,000 between April and September in 2020 In his message, NHRC Chairperson Justice H L Dattu said the Commission has consistently endeavoured to broaden the ambit of human rights with the challenges of changing times for the protection of the civil and political rights of the […]
Time8 News 17 September 2020 GUWAHATI: The National Campaign Against Torture (NCAT) in its report, ‘The Status Of COVID-19 In Indian Prisons’, stated that out of the 1,350 jails in India, COVID-19 infections have been reported from at least 351 jails in 25 out of total 36 States/UTs of the country as of 31 August […]
The Times of India Umamaheswara Rao | TNN | Updated: Sep 17, 2020 VISAKHAPATNAM: Andhra Pradesh stands fifth in the country for number of jails reporting Covid-19 cases. The state currently has 28 jails which have reported coronavirus cases and is preceded by Uttar Pradesh (35 jails); Madhya Pradesh (34); Maharashtra (32); and Odisha (31). The […]
Gplus NIBIR DEKA | SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 Assam has been ranked among the top states in India where COVID-19 protocols have been violated by jail authorities helping the virus to spread faster among jail inmates, a report by The National Campaign Against Torture (NCAT) pointed out. According to the report, the maximum number of COVID-19 […]
The Hindustan Times 16 September 2020 The National Campaign Against Torture (NCAT) said 351 of 1,350 jails across 25 states and Union territories in the country have reported Covid-19 cases till August 31. A non-government organization (NGO) on Wednesday said that 26 percent of India’s 1,350 jails have reported Covid-19 infections since the outbreak of […]
News Click 16 September 2020 By Varsha Torgalkar Activists have been demanding the release of prisoners on health grounds. So far, six inmates have died of COVID-19 in prisons across state and 1,772 prisoners have tested positive out of total 11,267 tests conducted as per the Prison Department data. Pune: On July 12, poet and […]
Al Jazeera 16 September 2020 Country with world’s second-highest caseload confirms more than 90,000 new cases on Wednesday as outbreak accelerates. By Kate Mayberry & Usaid Siddiqui India has now reported more than five million cases of the coronavirus, the second country after the US to report so many cases. Melbourne looks to be on […]
The Sentinel 16 September 2020 Out of the 1,350 jails in India, COVID-19 infections have been reported from at least 351 jails in 25 out of total 36 States or UTs: NCAT New Delhi: The National Campaign Against Torture (NCAT), a rights group based in New Delhi, in its report titled ‘The Status Of COVID-19 […]
Vice 15 September 2020 By Pallavi Pundir In the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where extrajudicial killings and police brutality are common, the Special Security Force is being seen as dangerous. Pallavi Pundir The northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) announced the formation of a “specialised, well-trained force” with the power to search […]
