As COVID-19 Cases Rise, Activists, Lawyers Appeal for the Release of Prisoners in Delhi
According to estimates, 200 prisoners and several jail staff have already tested positive for COVID-19.
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Mumbai:Â As the second wave of COVID-19 ravages Delhi, the situation of prisons in the city is dire with little to no scope to follow COVID-19 appropriate behaviour. In order to mitigate the situation, a group of senior human rights lawyers, activists and medical practitioners have written to the Supreme Court elected High Power Committee (HPC) in Delhi requesting the decongestion of prisons.
In a representation made by advocates Vrinda Grover and Soutik Banerjee, academic Pratiksha Baxi, and public health activist Sarojini Nadimpally, the HPC has been notified about the exponential rise in cases inside prisons of Delhi.
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1590 Hardip Singh Dibdiba (centre), grandfather of Navreet Singh who died riding a tractor on January 26. File photo
New Delhi, April 15
The Delhi High Court Thursday granted time to the family of a 25-year-old farmer, who died after his tractor overturned during the farmers’ protest rally on the Republic Day, to seek opinion of experts on his post mortem and X-Ray reports.
Justice Yogesh Khanna also asked the Delhi Police to allow the family to view the CCTV footage of the spot where the incident took place, whenever they want to.
The court listed the matter for further hearing on July 26.
Release Thin Thin Aung : Women Activists Urge India, Global Stakeholders to Focus on Myanmar
In a statement, activists have held that the journalist and pro-democracy activist is one among many held arbitrarily by the military in Myanmar.
People march during a protest against the military coup in Dawei, Myanmar April 13, 2021. Photo: Courtesy of Dawei Watch/via Reuters
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New Delhi: Several prominent women rights advocates from all walks of life in India have released a statement urging the Myanmar military to release journalist and activist Thin Thin Aung and other illegally detained pro-democracy protesters.
In an appeal, both to the military which assumed power since the coup and to the international community including transnational business stakeholders, the activists have urged that the brutal violence perpetrated on protesters in Myanmar end and people’s rights be restored.
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NEW DELHI, India, Apr 8 2021 (IPS) - Delayed, or no, justice and perpetrators’ impunity effectively silence rape and sexual assault survivors of communal violence in India.
Activists and human rights lawyers have been speaking out about how rape and sexual violence, especially during communal conflicts, aims to humiliate religious and other minorities by turning the women into symbols of dishonour.
In 2002, the 19-year-old Bano was six months pregnant when she was gang-raped. She witnessed 14 members of her family killed in one of the most horrifying large-scale anti-Muslim violent riots that swept across Gujarat.
The pogrom saw 2,000 people, predominantly Muslim, killed across the state after a train fire, in which 60 Hindu pilgrims were burned alive.
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