Documented at Sanhati India / Statement by Peoples Union for Democratic Rights
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi (PUDR) strongly protests the accusation by the Maharashtra police claiming that the PUDR is a frontal organisation of the CPI (Maoist) party. This is a blatant attempt to threaten and restrict the functioning of one of India’s oldest civil rights organisations.
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NDTV / Eidted by Debjani Chatterjee
Bombay High Court is upset with Maharashtra Police for holding a press conference showing evidence against the arrested activists
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The CARAVAN / By Tushar Dhara
The circumstances surrounding all the purported assassination plots against Narendra Modi are intriguing—for the backgrounds of the individuals allegedly plotting the murder, for the political climate in which they were revealed, and for the media organisations that break the news.
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The Wire / By Sukanya Shantha
According to Degree Prasad Chouhan, the recent arrests of activists is part of a much larger conspiracy to stifle on-ground movements that have been gaining momentum over the years.
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Scroll.in / By Shoaib Daniyal
Some TV news channels, it seems, cannot stop inventing and circulating bogeys to target people seen as opposing the incumbent dispensation.
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Scroll.in / by Mridula Chari
One of the two secretaries general of Forum for Integrated National Security is Seshadri Chari, a senior member of the RSS and the BJP.
A report released by a security think-tank in March into caste violence in Bhima Koregaon near Pune on January 1 had foreshadowed the turn taken by the police investigation into the events. The report pinned the blame for the violence on a Maoist conspiracy – a conclusion that bears striking resemblance to the claims the Pune police has subsequently made in court.
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en | 19 min | 2018
PUCL National Secretary and visiting professor at NLU, Sudha Bharadwaj, talks to Newsclick about the recent allegations made against her of being an urban Naxal by Republic TV. She also discusses the long drawn conflict in Chhattisgarh and how illegal land acquisitions and extrajudicial killings are adding fuel to the fire in the state.
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Scroll.in / By Raksha Kumar
The phrase is deliberately vague to cover a wide array of dissidents, human rights defenders say.
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We the undersigned wish to place on record our utter disgust, contempt and outrage at the latest in the series of machinations by Republic TV, working to its brief as a propagandist for the ongoing crusade against all those who take public stands in defence of democracy, secularism, human rights, Constitutional propriety and rule of law.
en | 12:20 min | 2018
The Wire / Jahnavi Sen interviews Sudha Bharadwaj
Bharadwaj, a human rights lawyer, has rubbished allegations made by Arnab Goswami’s Republic TV that she took money from and was corresponding with Maoists.
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