Rights Violations
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Sold as a humane alternative to jail, ankle bracelets are driving US defendants into debt
Private companies charge defendants hundreds of dollars a month to wear the surveillance devices. If people can’t pay, they may end up behind bars.
Ava Kofman, ProPublica
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His parents await burial but Nigerian man languishes in Nagaland jail even after completing sentence
Raymond Chinenyeuba Nweze was to be freed in May last year but remains incarcerated despite approaching the Indian foreign ministry and the Nigerian embassy.
Sruthisagar Yamunan
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Watch video tributes to Irom Sharmila's inspirational struggle against AFSPA
The tributes are pouring in as one of the longest ever continuous fasts comes to an end.
Scroll Staff
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot
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Carnatic music: Violinist L Subramaniam’s new book looks at the 18th-century masters
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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Full text: Boycott Vedanta-sponsored Jaipur lit fest's London edition, writers urged in open letter
The mining company has been implicated in international human rights violations, claims a letter signed by dozens of writers, academics and activists.
Scroll Staff
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7,000 Syrians were tortured to death in government detention centres: report
In photographs researched by the Human Rights Watch, detainees’ bodies show clear signs of starvation, beatings and other forms of torture.
Scroll Staff
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Women are being illegally detained in shelter homes for falling in love. Yet nobody’s being punished
The police routinely order ‘protective custody’ of women against their will, but action is never taken against erring officers, or magistrates.
Aarefa Johari
Video
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Watch: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Watch: Footballers of Indian clubs walk out on the pitch with dogs to get them adopted