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Newsclick Report
CAA-NRC Protests: Amnesty, HRW, US Fed Commission Slated to Testify in US Congress Briefing Today
27 Jan 2020
Lucknow-based Magsaysay award winner Sandeep Pandey also among those expected to brief US Congress members on police brutalities during anti-CAA protests in India.
Peoples Dispatch
Israeli Court Bans Media From Pegasus Spyware Case Trials
18 Jan 2020
Israeli company NSO exports the Pegasus spyware, which has been used by governments across the world against opposition activists and journalists, including in India.
Peoples Dispatch
Peace Activists Protest Docking of Saudi Ship at Spain’s Sagunto Port
12 Dec 2019
Activists allege that the ship, Bahri Abha, is carrying weapons for use by Saudi Arabia in Yemen. Since 2015, the ship has transported military equipment worth €143 million on eight voyages from the…
Peoples Dispatch
Professor and Father of Prominent Activist, Mohammad Ismail Denied Bail by Pakistani Court
09 Nov 2019
Ismail was sent to 14 days in judicial remand after he was arrested on October 24 on charges falling under the draconian anti-terror laws in the country. He faces a possible seven-year jail term if…
Newsclick Team
‘We Have to Intensify Voice of Dissent Across the World'
23 Sep 2019
Communities across the world who suffer work-based and dissent-based discrimination have come together at the International Congress in Columbia University in New York.
Newsclick Report
J&K: Amnesty Denied Permission to Release Report on PSA
13 Jun 2019
The report has called for the repeal of the draconian Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA) after analysing case studies of 210 detainees.
Peoples Dispatch
Egypt Executes Nine for Top Official’s Assassination
22 Feb 2019
The accused were hanged despite the appeals by international human rights groups for a stay on the executions, and condemnations over the death sentences given under questionable circumstances.
Pavan Kulkarni
Oil Giant Shell Finally Faces Its Day in Court For Complicity in Rapes And Murders in Nigeria
13 Feb 2019
Through the early 90s, the Anglo-Dutch Shell petroleum company egged the Nigerian state to crack down violently on members of the Ogoni community and activists who were protesting the ecological…
Peoples Dispatch
Execution of Filipino woman points to Saudi Arabia’s appalling record on work conditions, executions
02 Feb 2019
The 39-year-old woman was executed earlier this week on charges of murdering her employer. Rights organizations have long criticized the horrible conditions in which domestic workers are forced to…
Vivan Eyben
Assam: Indefinite Detention for Those Without Documents
24 Nov 2018
The report by Amnesty International on Assam’s detention centres has once again highlighted the procedural lapses and lack of policy or law on the matter.