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Allowing the State to Designate Someone as a ‘Terrorist’ Without Trial is Dangerous

Allowing the State to Designate Someone as a ‘Terrorist’ Without Trial is Dangerous

The Wire / by Siddharth Varadarajan

The UAPA Amendment Bill is the single most dangerous piece of legislation the country has ever seen.
Should government officials and politicians – even upstanding democrats with a long record of respecting the rule of law like home minister Amit Shah – be trusted with the power to designate an individual as a “terrorist”, that too, without that person being tried and convicted?
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Video: UAPA Amendment: Why Giving Govt Power to Declare Individuals `Terrorits´ is Problematic?

Video: UAPA Amendment: Why Giving Govt Power to Declare Individuals `Terrorits´ is Problematic?


en | 26:22 min | 2019

By The Polis Project

Suchitra Vijayan speaks to lawyer Darshna Mitra about the UAPA act, its long and violent history of weaponizing National security concerns to crush dissent, and what the recent amendments mean for the future of India as a constitutional republic.
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Video: UAPA Bill: India’s Most Dangerous Law Yet

Video: UAPA Bill: India’s Most Dangerous Law Yet


en | 8:21 min | 2019
The Wire / By Beyond The Headlines with Siddharth Varadarajan
The new Bill will allow the NIA to wreak havoc on India’s federal system. But what’s most dangerous is the amendment that will allow the government to declare not just organisations as terrorists – but individuals as well.
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Be afraid, be very afraid: Why amendments to UAPA are deeply wrong

Be afraid, be very afraid: Why amendments to UAPA are deeply wrong

Mumbai Mirror / by Invitation Chitranshul Sinha

The Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967 (UAPA) was enacted by the Indira Gandhi government as a statute to prevent, curb and punish any ‘unlawful activity’. Such activities were, loosely speaking, seditious activities or such other activities against the territorial integrity and sovereignty of India.
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Lok Sabha passes UAPA Bill: Home minister Amit Shah sends strong message against ‘urban Naxals’, Maoists

Lok Sabha passes UAPA Bill: Home minister Amit Shah sends strong message against ‘urban Naxals’, Maoists

Firstpost / by Debobrat Ghose

Home Minister Amit Shah gave a strong message in the Lok Sabha on Thursday: Under the garb of ‘social activism’ and ‘ideological movement’, Maoism — especially ‘urban Naxalism’ and violence against common man, villagers and tribals under its pretext — won’t be tolerated at any cost.
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Lok Sabha passes Bill in boost to anti-terror laws

Lok Sabha passes Bill in boost to anti-terror laws

Live Mint / by Shaswati Das

The Bill empowers the government to designate individuals as terrorists on certain grounds
It also paves the way for the National Investigation Agency to seize property as part of investigations into terror cases
New Delhi: Just a week after the both Houses of Parliament passed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) bill, the Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill 2019, in a move that gives a big push to India’s internal security machinery.
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Central Government Claims On New UAPA Bill Misleading

Central Government Claims On New UAPA Bill Misleading

Amnesty International India / by Amnesty International India

The Central government’s claim in the Lok Sabha that the proposed amendments to the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) complies with international standards is false. The proposed amendments will allow the government to designate an individual as a terrorist. This amendment violates international human rights law and opens the floodgate to harassment of human rights defenders and activists, said Amnesty International India.
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“Draconian Amendments in UAPA & NIA Laws spell further disaster for Human Rights” – Prominent Activists, Leaders

“Draconian Amendments in UAPA & NIA Laws spell further disaster for Human Rights” – Prominent Activists, Leaders

By National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations

Prominent political, social leaders and human rights defenders condemned the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2019 that seeks to tag individuals as ‘terrorist’. The bill was introduced amid strong protest from the opposition benches in the Lok Sabha as the Opposition MPs termed the bill as draconian as in the name of fighting terror fundamental rights of an individual cannot be ignored.
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UAPA Bill draconian, terms Opposition in Lok Sabha

UAPA Bill draconian, terms Opposition in Lok Sabha

The Hindu / by Special Correspondent

The Union government on Monday introduced the National Investigation Agency (Amendment), Bill 2019 and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2019, in the Lok Sabha amid protests by the Opposition.
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