Siddhartha Deb: The unravelling of a conspiracy: were the 16 charged with plotting to kill India’s prime minister framed? / Sudhir Chandra: More than a Judicial Murder

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In April 2018, a large group of policemen arrived at the Delhi flat of Rona Wilson, a 47-year-old human rights activist. They had travelled from Pune in the western state of Maharashtra, and appeared, accompanied by Delhi police officials, at Wilson’s single-room flat at 6am. For the next eight hours, they scoured the modest premises, searching the files on Wilson’s laptop and rifling through his books. Annoyed and short of sleep, he asked that they be put back in place after they had been scrutinised. When the police eventually left, they took away Wilson’s Hewlett-Packard laptop, a SanDisk thumb drive and his mobile phone.

Seven weeks later, the police were back at Wilson’s flat, this time to arrest him. He was accused of conspiring to assassinate the prime minister, Narendra Modi, and planning to overthrow the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government. Evidence of these crimes had allegedly been found on his laptop. Wilson was flown to Pune, charged under India’s anti-terror law and incarcerated. More than three years after the arrest, he remains in prison….

In July 2021, the Guardian and a consortium of news organisations revealed that Pegasus spyware had been used by a number of repressive governments around the world to spy on human rights defenders, activists and journalists. Modi’s government was said to be among those using Pegasus, and it was reportedly found to be targeting opposition politicians, journalists and activists in India. Among potential targets were, it was claimed, eight of the BK 16, including Rona Wilson...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/12/bhima-koregaon-case-india-conspiracy-modi

Sudhir Chandra: More than a Judicial Murder

It is more than a month since Father Stan Swamy’s death. Death – the neutral word jars. Particularly when seemingly more appropriate expressions like ‘murder by the state’, ‘institutional murder’ and ‘judicial killing’ have spontaneously sprung into use to describe the shocking occurrence. However, even as these charged terms highlight much of what is entailed in Swamy’s death, they miss something vital. It should concern us, as individual human beings and as a people, to reflect on that missing something. How we understand that, and what that understanding makes us do or not do, will have serious repercussions for our individual and collective well-being….

https://thewire.in/rights/stan-swamy-death-india-criminal-justice


Socrates: If the whole is ailing the part cannot be well / Ajit Prakash Shah: Darkness at noon, felled by the judiciary


मुझे पूरी उम्मीद है कि आप अपनी बारी आने से पहले बोलेंगे- डॉ.आनंद तेलतुंबड़े


Avay Shukla: IT'S TIME TO BE OUTRAGED , MY LORDS.


The Judiciary is the Defence of the Innocent. Or so we thought...


WANTED: Immediate Justice in the Bhima-Koregaon Conspiracy. By Cedric Prakash


Govt wants to cage women who speak against it, say Narwal & Kalita as they and Asif Tanha walk free / Delhi HC criticises 'wanton, frivolous use of UAPA by the State' / P.B. Mehta: Has the blackbox of UAPA finally been opened?


Bharat Bhushan - Pegasus impact: Loss to Indian Republic and government is much greater


Bharat Bhushan: Has Modi government compromised national security through Pegasus? / Pegasus spyware: the export of self-censorship / Saudi Government used Pegasus to murder journalist Jamal Khashoggi / Global fightback against spyware


Pratap Bhanu Mehta: What the Pegasus scandal means for Indian democracy / Shoaib Daniyal: Spyware attack threatens pillars of India’s electoral democracy


Samar Halarnkar: The lights begin to wink out in India’s democracy


Interview: Philosopher Bruno Latour on Challenges of Identity Politics in India


Father Stan Swamy: I’d rather suffer, possibly die if things go on as it is


Pinjra Tod activist Natasha Narwal's father dies of Covid day before her bail hearing // That Monday will not come, Judge Sahib


Gujarati Poet Parul Khakkar Blames 'Naked King' for Corpses Floating in the Ganga


Avay Shukla: LEST WE FORGET


Russian Justice: Sergei Magnitsky’s Torture and Murder in Pre-Trial Detention


Solidarity with Memorial: Russia’s most prominent civil rights group in danger


Nick Hopkins and Luke Harding - Intelligence sources vouch for credibility of Russia dossier author / Mark Sumner - Trump Was Bailed Out of Bankruptcy by Russia Crime Bosses


The destruction of society EUROZINE REVIEW


British banks handled vast sums of laundered Russian money


Lawyer For Russian Whistleblower’s Family Falls From Building One Day Before Hearing


P. B. Mehta: Our rulers want an India that thrives on cruelty, fear, division and violence


A whiff of evil


Apoorva Mandhani: Judge Loya's Confidants Died Mysterious Deaths


Re-investigate Judge Loya’s death: Sharad Pawar // सीबीआई जज की मौत को लेकर उठे सवाल


अपूर्वानंद - भागवत और वंजारा साथ-साथ: हम कौन थे, क्या हो गए हैं और क्या होंगे अभी?



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