Newsclick / by Edgar Kaiser

The downgrading of NHRC captured perfectly the many qualms civil society has had with how the institution has been run for several years.
… A reflection on this sad status reminds us of NHRC’s screeching silence on the death of Fr. Stan Swamy and Prof. G.N. Saibaba, on the fate of hundreds of political prisoners incarcerated following the CAA protests and the Kashmir unrest and on the Manipur riots. 
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