#WatchtheState: Our weekly update on patterns of state violence in #India.
Here's a quick review of reported instances of #stateviolence. @project_polis
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Here's a quick review of reported instances of #stateviolence. @project_polis
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#DelhiPogrom: "CCTV Footage In Itself Not Sufficient To Prolong Incarceration": Delhi High Court Grants Bail To Man In Jail For 17 Months.
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#DelhiPogrom: "Adjournments Sought By SPPs, IOs In Very Casual Manner": Court Imposes 5K Cost As Salary Cut. @nupur_0111
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#DelhiPogrom Did Not Take Place In Spur Of The Moment; Calculated Attempt To Dislocate Functioning Of Govt : High Court.
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In the past 2 yrs, journalists in Kashmir have been: Detained without a warrant, sometimes at gunpoint; interrogated for hours; raided; threatened/slapped by police for reporting facts; charged with the #UAPA; monitored/profiled by security agencies.
https://twitter.com/Article14live/status/1443224232607977474
Press Council of India to Probe Harassment, Intimidation of Journalists in #Kashmir: The top statutory press body's decision comes after former chief minister Mehabooba Mufti flagged the issue of repression faced by journalists in Kashmir. @thewire_in
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FIRs, intimidation, and death: Reporting on sand mining remains perilous in #MadhyaPradesh. Journalists face wrath of authorities and illegal sand mining mafia MP’s Khargone. @akanksha_kumar3 @newslaundry newslaundry.com/2021/09/28/fir…
How a forceful eviction in Assam turned bloodied: 800 families - Muslims of Bengal origin-were displaced in a forced eviction drive carried out on 20 & 23 Sept. Residents say they received the eviction notice only the night before it began. @makesyoucakes trtworld.com/magazine/how-a…
"They have killed my son,” #MoinulHaque’s father told @makesyoucakes, the day after the family’s sole breadwinner was killed by Assam police & he saw the viral video of his son's killing on his phone.
#UttarPradesh Police booked @Fraternity_movt Allahabad leader Sarah Ahmad Siddiqui and others for protesting against police killings in Assam.
https://twitter.com/SharjeelUsmani/status/1442764705337012227
Out of the 30,000 applicants' admit cards rejected by the #WestBengal Police Recruitment Board for an exam to recruit constables, around 1000 were that of Muslim girls, dismissed for wearing headscarves in photos attached with the forms. @MaktoobMedia maktoobmedia.com/2021/10/02/wes…
5-Year-Old Video of IAS Officer With Religious Preacher Prompts Police Probe. Mohammed Iftikharuddin is chairman of the #UttarPradesh State Road Transport Corporation (UPSRTC) but it is not clear what offence he is being accused of committing. @thewire_in thewire.in/government/up-…
Singling Out Muslims: #Bihar Govt Asks Citizens To Identify, Report ‘Illegal Immigrants’. After a Patna HC query on a plan for detention centres, the Bihar govt called on citizens to identify people they ‘suspected’ of being Bangladeshis. @asfreeasjafri
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Timing of 2019 WhatsApp-NSO Hack in India Validates Leaked Database Accessed by #Pegasus Project: Links between the two offer corroboration for the latter while providing further insight into the spyware net. @AnujSrivas @kabira_tweeting @sukanyashantha thewire.in/tech/timing-of…
A government-sponsored facial recognition #surveillance system, billed as India’s largest such effort to date, is proposing to detect faces when covered with masks, or even modified by plastic surgery, sparking privacy concerns. @imsoumyarendra @entrackr
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#Gujarat: In another episode of anti-Muslim violence, Anas Mohammad, a 21-year-old delivery boy was allegedly thrashed by Hindu men at an apartment complex in Ahmedabad, when he revealed his Muslim identity. @meerfaisal01 @MaktoobMedia maktoobmedia.com/2021/09/28/don…
#Hindutva groups in Delhi celebrate the release of Preet Singh, the key organizer in Jantar Mantar hate speech and Muslim boycott event. @asfreeasjafri
https://twitter.com/asfreeasjafri/status/1442564570120294404
'The rampage of Hindu mobs in #MadhyaPradesh continues. Shops of minorities forcibly closed, vandalized, men brutally attacked by mobs chanting "shoot the traitors" slogan. Police had to resort to lathi charge to control the mobs.' - @asfreeasjafri
https://twitter.com/asfreeasjafri/status/1441722935073382400
‘VHP Threatening To Demolish Churches in #MadhyaPradesh,’ Bishop Appeals to the President: Appeal states how a group visited churches in Jhabua, threatening to demolish 'illegal structures' & accusing priests of running a 'conversion racket'. @IsmatAraa thewire.in/communalism/vh…
Declare India as a 'Hindu Rashtra' or else will take samadhi: Jagadguru Paramhans Acharya Maharaj. He also demanded the Union government to officially end the nationality of all Muslims and Christians living in India.
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Muslim boy killed by Ram Sena in cold blood in #Karnataka: Arbaz (25yrs) was brutally murdered by the Ram Sena, a #Hindutva group for allegedly being in a relationship with a Hindu girl. His body was found beheaded near the railway tracks. @meerfaisal01
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#Mangaluru: Five Bajrang Dal members arrested for heckling a group of medical students in Karnataka. They questioned the women in the group “for being in the company of Muslim youngsters”. @scroll_in
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#Bihar: Thrashed by a Hindu mob, Mohammad Ajjan Imran, a 25-year-old, succumbed to his injuries, leaving behind his 4 children. The assailants brutally beat him to death after accusing him of stealing a battery from a tractor. @meerfaisal01 @MaktoobMedia
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#Bihar: Nitish Kumar (14), died after an acid attack by Hindutva men. Kumar’s family had adopted Christianity 5 yrs ago. They were threatened for attending the church but the police refused to register a case before & even after the attack. @MaktoobMedia
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#Hathras rape case: Prisoners in their own home, lives on hold, a village divided. @geetapandeyBBC bbc.com/news/world-asi…
#SiddiqueKappan did not write like a “responsible” journalist, “only & only reports to incite Muslims” & also wrote to “sympathise with Maoists & Communists”, says the #UttarPradesh Special Task Force in the 5000-pg chargesheet. @AmilwithanL @IndianExpress indianexpress.com/article/cities…
On 27 Sept, 3 women & a child from Kerala were sent to jail by #UttarPradesh police for allegedly using fake COVID test certificates. They were visiting Anshad Badruddin & Firoz Khan who are in jail in connection with the #Hathras case. @shaheenjournal maktoobmedia.com/2021/09/30/up-…
Parents jailed in UP, child left behind in Kerala: Muhsina decided to take her son Athif (7) & mother-in-law to meet her husband Anshad Badruddin in jail. She boarded the flight leaving behind her 2-yr-old, thinking the trip would be brief. @MaktoobMedia maktoobmedia.com/2021/09/30/fat…
#Hathras: Nearly 7 days after a special court asked to ensure “proper treatment” of Atiq-ur-Rahman who was sent back to jail after he suffered a cardiac & respiratory disorder, jail authorities said they’ve decided to take him to AIIMS-Delhi for a checkup. maktoobmedia.com/2021/09/30/hat…
Manish Gupta, an “admirer” of UP CM Yogi Adityanath who had gone to Gorakhpur to see the “development work” done by the leader died after being allegedly beaten up by the police in his hotel room for taking too long to produce his identity proof. telegraphindia.com/india/adityana…
UP cops face murder charges in 5 cases filed this year. The Allahabad HC directed the CBI to take over the probe into the custodial death of a 24-yr-old man, hinting that senior officers were involved in shielding the accused and destroying evidence. indianexpress.com/article/cities…
UP: NHRC Sets up Inquiry in Minor Boy’s Death by Suicide After 3 Months in Jail. The Commission has questioned whether the police & court followed proper procedure. An FIR for abetment of suicide has been filed against the policemen. @newsclickin
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'I Control Police': Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb Tells Officials Not to Worry About Contempt Cases. Deb's comment sparked controversy with opposition parties saying that under his regime, democracy was at stake. @thewire_in
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Hearing a former Army man’s petition accusing a few policemen in Pilibhit of torturing & humiliating him earlier this year, the Allahabad HC directed the UP govt to “take immediate action in accordance with law against the accused policemen”. @asad1_rehman indianexpress.com/article/cities…
"State Protecting Its Police Officers": Supreme Court Imposes ₹7 Lakh Costs On UP Govt In A 19 Year Old Encounter Killing Case. @ISparshUpadhyay @LiveLawIndia
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Another #COVID-19 Outbreak in Byculla Prison: In the past 1.5 yrs, courts passed orders in the prisoners’ interest, but the state has done very little to reduce the prison population. Shoma Sen and Sudha Bharadwaj are lodged in this prison. @sukanyashantha
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In Delhi's Jamia Nagar, Muslim Residents Move Court to Protect Temple from Encroachment: 'My appeal is that, the same way that I stood up for a temple, I hope our Hindu brothers will also stand up for a mosque.' @IsmatAraa @thewire_in
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"I want to expose the mentality of the Indian state where the police deliberately target Muslims to wrongly accuse them of terrorism." Abdul Wahid Shaikh spent 9 yrs in jail as an accused. His mission now is to fight for justice for others.@karwanemohabbat
#UttarPradesh: 150 people booked for allegedly defacing CM Adityanath’s name on a statue. Members of the Gurjar community had been protesting the removal of the mention of their caste from the plaque under the statue of 9-century king Mihir Bhoj.@scroll_in scroll.in/latest/1006543…
RTI Activist Murder: Gujarat High Court Suspends Life Term Awarded to Former BJP MP Dinu Solanki. Granting bail, the court said that the special CBI court's judgement was, "erroneous & unsustainable" as the trial was based "on assumptions & presumptions." thewire.in/rights/rti-act…
After 'Abba Jaan' Jab in UP, It's 'Land Jihad' in #Uttarakhand: The govt order in question says that there has been an unprecedented increase in population in parts of the state by a certain community without giving any concrete data. @newsclickin
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Teacher, companion, motivator: Adivasi-rights activist Dayamani Barla remembers Stan Swamy. @thecaravanindia
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Rage, Bias, Grief: Why Death That Triggered #Muzaffarnagar Riots Remains Unsolved. In the very first death of the 2013 riots, Shahnawaz's father claims the probe has been faulty since the beginning. @iyersaishwarya @TheQuint
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8 years after the 2013 #Muzaffarnagar riots, only one woman's case against 3 rape accused continues in court. "I wish all the women had fought the cases together and supported each other." @iyersaishwarya @TheQuint
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Watch: ASHIYANA: Mohd Arif, a resident of #KhoriGaon, awaits the demolition of his house, just as more than 100,000 other area residents after the #SupremeCourt ruled that the village sits 'illegally' on forest land. @IamRCHRD @jessica_goel newsreel.asia/ashiyana
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