• Newsletters
  • Gift Membership
Logo Logo
Take Scroll With You Download the app to read our award-winning journalism on the go and stay up-to-date with our notifications.
Get the app Get the app
ANDROID iOS
  • Home
  • Common Ground
  • The India Fix
  • Eco India
  • The Latest
  • The Reel
  • Magazine
  • Video
  • Trending
    • Yiyun Li lost both her sons to suicide. Her new memoir reveals her as a very special writer
    • Uganda, India and beyond: What Zohran Mamdani’s win reveals about the insecurities of expulsion
    • ‘Tell the judge he has done no crime’: The struggles of Hany Babu’s family
    • ‘The Hunt: The Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Case’ review: A balancing act between fact and drama
    • For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
    • Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
    • Why a letter by Chhattisgarh’s forest department ignited protests
    • ‘Exoticised, alienised, villainised’: A book looks at how Muslims have been portrayed in Hindi films
    • ‘Sarzameen’ trailer: An Army family is torn between duty and love
    • A new book suggests ways for professionals to develop AI literacy to thrive in an AI-first world
    • A new book brings a Rampur family’s culinary history and cherished recipes created by the matriarch
    • ‘Why do we submit? / to fracturing?’: A poetry anthology of South Asian women’s traumas
  • Sections
    • Politics
    • Culture
    • India
    • World
    • Film and TV
    • Music
    • Books and Ideas
    • Business and Economy
    • Science and Technology
    • In Pictures
    • Announcements
    • Bookshop
    • The Field
    • Pulse
    • Elections 2024

Human rights activist

  • Delhi Police tried to detain activist Nadeem Khan without warrant in Bengaluru: Civil rights group

    Delhi Police tried to detain activist Nadeem Khan without warrant in Bengaluru: Civil rights group

    Scroll Staff
    · Dec 01, 2024 · 04:51 pm
  • Asaduddin Owaisi blames anti-terrorism law for activist GN Saibaba’s death

    Asaduddin Owaisi blames anti-terrorism law for activist GN Saibaba’s death

    Scroll Staff
    · Oct 13, 2024 · 05:48 pm
  • Activist GN Saibaba dies seven months after acquittal in Maoist links case

    Activist GN Saibaba dies seven months after acquittal in Maoist links case

    Scroll Staff
    · Oct 13, 2024 · 08:31 am
  • Human rights activist Gautam Navlakha gets bail in Bhima Koregaon case

    Human rights activist Gautam Navlakha gets bail in Bhima Koregaon case

    Scroll Staff
    · May 14, 2024 · 01:55 pm
  • Bhima Koregaon case: Gautam Navlakha’s bail plea rejected by NIA court

    Bhima Koregaon case: Gautam Navlakha’s bail plea rejected by NIA court

    Scroll Staff
    · Apr 07, 2023 · 09:21 am
  • Kashmiri rights activist Ahsan Untoo arrested for ‘spreading secessionist agenda’ on social media

    Kashmiri rights activist Ahsan Untoo arrested for ‘spreading secessionist agenda’ on social media

    Scroll Staff
    · Jan 15, 2022 · 08:19 am
  • Ex-Amnesty India head Aakar Patel faces FIR for allegedly urging Indians to emulate US protests

    Ex-Amnesty India head Aakar Patel faces FIR for allegedly urging Indians to emulate US protests

    Scroll Staff
    · Jun 05, 2020 · 12:56 pm
  • Bhima Koregaon case: Arrested activist Sudha Bharadwaj moves Bombay High Court for bail

    Bhima Koregaon case: Arrested activist Sudha Bharadwaj moves Bombay High Court for bail

    Scroll Staff
    · Feb 06, 2019 · 04:19 pm
  • Video: Pakistan’s solemn farewell to Asma Jahangir, the champion of humans rights and democracy

    Video: Pakistan’s solemn farewell to Asma Jahangir, the champion of humans rights and democracy

    Reuters
    · Feb 15, 2018 · 03:44 pm
  • Asma Jahangir (1952-2018): The human rights icon from Pakistan was a feisty street fighter

    Asma Jahangir (1952-2018): The human rights icon from Pakistan was a feisty street fighter

    Saroop Ijaz
    · Feb 11, 2018 · 04:52 pm
  • Pakistan: Human rights activist Asma Jahangir dies at 66

    Pakistan: Human rights activist Asma Jahangir dies at 66

    Scroll Staff
    · Feb 11, 2018 · 03:24 pm
  • Human rights activist Khurram Parvez released from Jammu jail

    Human rights activist Khurram Parvez released from Jammu jail

    Scroll Staff
    · Nov 30, 2016 · 06:41 pm