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Prashant Kanojia (@PJkanojia) was arrested on Saturday, by plainclothes policemen without showing a warrant, for the 'crime' of a tweet about UP CM Yogi Adityanath.

Here are some of his stories for The Wire.

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.@PJkanojia covered the plight of women sold into forced marriage in Haryana and the indifference of the police in the specific case of one 17 year old woman from a Dalit community.

The victim was raped over several months, by multiple people.

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He also brought to light the cases in which the UP Police arrested minors from Dalit communities, all of whom were arrested under the same 15 charges, including attempt to murder.

One of them was 12 years old.

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.@PJkanojia wrote about how a settlement including 40 shops was demolished around Mahagun Moderne Society in Noida, when members of the settlement protested after a domestic worker was held captive on suspicions of stealing.

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He also covered the killing of an 8 year old Muslim boy at the hands of other children in Malviya Nagar, after the madrasa faced continued harassment from the neighboring Valmiki community.

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After increasing incidents of saffronisation in the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, @PJkanojia covered the protests there when an event to be held featured a yajna.

The event also featured the publisher of an RSS mouthpiece, Panchajanya.

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When 24 year old Mohsin Shaikh was lynched to death by a mob in 2014, he covered the various structural barriers the family faced in their efforts to find justice.

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Here's his article on the ecological damage caused by Sri Sri Ravishankar's Art of Living event held on the Yamuna floodplains of Delhi.

While the loss of biodiversity could be irredeemable, the possible rehabilitation will cost 42 crore and 10 years.

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