UP: Kafeel Khan says he was tortured, not given food or water in Mathura jail; writes to UN experts

Khan was in custody since January 29 and was released from jail on September 2 after a High court order.

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· Sep 22, 2020 · 11:00 am

Shaheen Bagh: Supreme Court reserves plea on protests, says they must be balanced with public rights

The top court’s observation came in response to a batch of pleas against the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests.

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· Sep 21, 2020 · 06:46 pm

CAA protests: Assam human rights panel tells state to complete inquiry into killings within a month

The order was passed during a hearing on a complaint filed on December 19 last year by Assam Pradesh Congress Committee chief Ripun Bora.

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· Sep 16, 2020 · 01:03 pm

Anti-CAA protests: AMU student Sharjeel Usmani gets bail, judge cites his academic record

He was arrested in July in connection with the the violence that broke out on campus in December.

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· Sep 04, 2020 · 09:59 am

‘Victory of justice’: Opposition leaders, AMU doctors’ body welcome Kafeel Khan’s release from jail

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said that the injustice and atrocities of those in power do not last long.

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· Sep 02, 2020 · 04:41 pm

Dr Kafeel Khan, released from jail at midnight, says UP government could frame him in another case

The Allahabad High Court quashed his detention order under the National Security Act, setting him free.

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· Sep 02, 2020 · 07:52 am

Kafeel Khan verdict: Hope UP government releases doctor without any malice, says Priyanka Gandhi

The Gorakhpur doctor has been in custody since January 29 for making allegedly inflammatory remarks during a CAA protest at the Aligarh Muslim University.

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· Sep 01, 2020 · 05:58 pm

Dr Kafeel Khan cleared of NSA charges, Allahabad High Court calls extension of detention illegal

The High Court also found prima facie that Khan’s speech at the Aligarh Muslim University in December did not reveal any effort to promote hatred or violence.

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· Sep 01, 2020 · 11:21 am

‘The government sabotaged NRC’: All Assam Students’ Union advisor Samujjal Bhattacharya

The Assamese group that had driven the NRC process for decades is not happy: it had expected a higher number of people to be excluded.

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· Aug 31, 2020 · 07:30 am

Bengali Hindus in this Assam village live the anxious life of ‘NRC rejects’

It has meant putting up with everyday humiliations and bureaucratic harassment.

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· Aug 30, 2020 · 09:15 am

A year after Assam’s NRC released, citizenship of two million people remains under a cloud

They are yet to receive rejection orders explaining why they were left out of the register.

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· Aug 28, 2020 · 09:00 am

CAA protests: Supreme Court adjourns by two weeks hearing on plea to club FIRs against Sharjeel Imam

The counsel for Imam sought more time to file a reply.

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· Aug 26, 2020 · 02:33 pm