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08 Aug

Threat to human rights is highest in police stations: CJI

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Expressing concern over increasing cases of custodial torture and police atrocities in the country, Chief Justice of India (CJI) N.V. Ramana on Sunday said the threat to human rights and bodily integrity is the highest at the police stations despite constitutional declarations and guarantees. The threat to human rights and bodily integrity are the highest in the police station. Custodial torture and other police atrocities are problems that still prevail in our society, ANI quoted the Chief Justice of India as saying. Justice Ramana was delivering the keynote address at an event organised by the National Legal Services Authority of…

Manipur: Journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem, Jailed For ‘Cow Dung’ Post, Released

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Journalist Kishorechandra Wangkhem was on Friday, 23 July, released from Imphal Central Jail. This comes after Manipur High Court had, earlier in the day, directed his interim release, saying, as per Bar and Bench, that his detention would be as much a "violation of Article 21 of the Constitution." Wangkhem had been detained under the National Security Act (NSA) for a post on his Facebook wall after a BJP leader died due to COVID, commenting that “cow dung, cow urine did not work." This comes a day after his wife, Ranjita Elangbam, wrote a letter to the Manipur High Court,…

India has many human rights issues says US report

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India has several significant human rights issues, including unlawful and arbitrary killings, restrictions on freedom of expression and the press, corruption and tolerance of violations of religious freedom, a US report said on Tuesday. In its ‘2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices’ to the US Congress, the Department of State noted the improvement in the human rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir. “The government continued taking steps to restore normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir by gradually lifting some security and communications restrictions,” said the State Department in its India section of the report. The government released most political activists…