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#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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Human rights activist Khurram Parvez sent to 3-week judicial custody, shifted to Tihar jail. #Kashmir
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"In #Kashmir, the draconian #UAPA terror law has become a lethal weapon to silence and intimidate: anyone can be arrested and disappeared indefinitely without any formal records." @suchitrav & @kiccovich: thepolisproject.com/read/the-mask-… via @project_polis

Three Kashmiri Students Move Allahabad HC for Bail, Say Agra Lawyers Won't Represent Them. The students were arrested in October for cheering for Pakistan following the neighbouring country's victory in a T20 Cricket World Cup match against India. thewire.in/law/three-kash…

The family of 23-year-old Muhammad Amir, killed in the Hyderpora 'encounter' on 15 November along with 3 others, is still waiting for his dead body which was buried by the police without their knowledge. @MaqboolMajid, photos by @adilabassJ thewire.in/rights/we-want…

@UNHumanRights: We are deeply concerned at the arrest of Kashmiri HRD Khurram Parvez under Indian counter-terrorism legislation. We are unaware of the factual basis of the charges. He is known as a tireless advocate for families of the disappeared.

https://twitter.com/UNGeneva/status/1465995286313148421

Since 2008, 108 magisterial probes have been ordered in #Kashmir in the aftermath of violent incidents. However, none of those reports have been made public, and not a single person has been convicted. @MohammadRaafi @thewire_in
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A Fake Gunbattle In #Kashmir & A Widow’s 25-Year Battle For Justice: Despite post-mortem findings, human rights reports that said Bhat’s was an extrajudicial killing, Jameela Bano had to knock on the judiciary's doors for over two decades. @soul_restlesss article-14.com/post/a-fake-gu…

Bombay High Court Grants Default Bail to Sudha Bharadwaj, Rejects Pleas of 8 Elgar Parishad Accused: The eight others are Sudhir Dawale, Varavara Rao, Rona Wilson, Surendra Gadling, Shoma Sen, Mahesh Raut, Vernon Gonsalves & Arun Ferreira. #BhimaKoregaon
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NIA moves Supreme Court filing an appeal against Bombay High Court's 1 December order granting bail to lawyer-activist Sudha Bharadwaj in the Bhima Koregaon case. #SudhaBharadwaj #BhimaKoregaon

https://twitter.com/LiveLawIndia/status/1466459292555300865

The NIA has been directed to take Telugu poet and activist #VaravaraRao to a private hospital for medical examination. #BhimaKoregaon
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A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court has rejected a plea by scholar and activist Anand Teltumbde for temporary bail to visit his family in the aftermath of the death of his brother Milind. @thewire_in thewire.in/law/nia-court-…

#UAPA Uttar Pradesh reported the highest number of arrests under UAPA in 2020 (361 cases), followed by J&K (346), and Manipur (225). Tamil Nadu saw 92 arrests, 24 in Kerala and 7 in Maharashtra. Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh saw none.

https://twitter.com/johnstanly/status/1466276882895101954

A victim's father in the 2008 Malegaon Blast Case involving BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur & Lt Colonel Prasad Purohit has set alarm bells ringing with a letter to Nation Investigation Agency (NIA) after 8 crucial witnesses were declared hostile. @CourtUnquote livelaw.in/news-updates/m…

Why did UP STF include BBC, Wire articles in chargesheet against Siddique Kappan? Tweets criticising RSS, articles about Babri Masjid demolition are part of the 5000 pg chargesheet. How do they connect to the terror charges against Kappan? @akanksha_kumar3
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As proof of raising funds for terror, UP STF points to a cash transfer of Rs 20,000 in Kappan case. Kappan says it’s money borrowed from friends. PFI has denied any knowledge of these funding campaigns. However, UP STF remains convinced. @akanksha_kumar3 newslaundry.com/2021/11/30/as-…

No Farmer Death Data During Protests, So No Question Of Aid: Government. @ndtv
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The human cost of India’s yearlong farmers’ protest: Farmers’ unions say at least nine farmers died by suicide among a total of nearly 700 deaths, leaving families distraught and in debt. @seekingsrishti aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/3…

Bill To Kill Farm Laws Passed In 4 Minutes. Opposition Wanted Discussion. Denied The Opportunity. ndtv.com/india-news/bil…… via @ndtv

‘Farmers To Continue Protests Until All Demands Are Fulfilled’: Samyukta Kisan Morcha: Demands such as legal guarantee on MSP, compensation to families of farmers who died during the movement and withdrawal of cases against the farmers are still to be met. thewire.in/agriculture/fa…

#Gurugram Namaz Row: Police Arrest One Member of Hindu Right-Wing Outfit: At least 11 people were detained in the afternoon. @somyalakhani thequint.com/news/india/gur…

In #Gurugram, the number of namaz sites has shrunk to 20 from over 100 in three years: Now, open spaces for Friday prayers could disappear altogether. @iyersaishwarya @scroll_in
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https://twitter.com/NeelMadhav_/status/1465591291060707333

https://twitter.com/alishan_jafri/status/1465537983763804163

Another Dubious Church 'Survey': #Karnataka BJP Govt Tracing 'Christian Converts'. In Karnataka, so far, three probes were ordered on Churches and Christians. @NikhilaHenry @TheQuint
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Members of the Bajrang Dal on 28 November, barged into a prayer hall in Hassan district of #Karnataka alleging coercive conversion. @TheQuint
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Pastors Attacked, Churches Ransacked, But #Uttarakhand Police File Cases Against Victims. @nikita_jain15 @Article14live
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Tensions High in #Dwarka After Right-Wing Hindu Mob Vandalises Church. The Police registered two FIRs – one against the mob and another against the churchgoers for allegedly violating DDMA guidelines. @thewire_in
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Why India is witnessing a spike in attacks on Christians, churches. Rights groups record more than 300 attacks on Christians and their religious places in the first nine months of this year. @NeelMadhav_ @alishan_jafri aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/2…

https://twitter.com/KeypadGuerilla/status/1466313685245124614

Munawar performed the same set in #Bengaluru thrice before: What got the cops this time? ‘Dongri to Nowhere’ is the stand-up set that he has been performing for over a year since before he was arrested for a joke he didn’t crack. @CSoumya21 @thenewsminute
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‘Never thought I’d be a hate crime victim’: 'Mr. Sherwani said that police officers refused to take his written complaint. He has now moved the SC, asking for action against the “erring officers” & seeking compensation for victims of hate crime.'
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On 27 Oct, the police detained Salman, without spelling out the charges against him & subjected him to custodial violence. The torture was so grave that over the following 5 days, his right arm got infected & he had to get his arm amputated. @geetikamantri thenewsminute.com/article/police…

TW: Torture

https://twitter.com/Shaad_Bajpe/status/1467076154007777281

Man serious after custodial torture in Kalaburagi; four police personnel suspended. The relatives said that Dundappa is still serious and is undergoing treatment in the hospital.
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On 28 November, Md. Adil was brutally beaten by a group of men when he wandered into a neighbouring village by mistake. His cap was thrown into the ground and his beard was pulled. No arrests so far.

https://twitter.com/JharkhandJanad1/status/1466444215001436168

https://twitter.com/JharkhandJanad1/status/1464846184468467714

'Arbitrary': Journalists Slam Restrictions on Access to Parliament Building. The restrictions prevent journalists from accessing Press Gallery, Central Hall & the executive wing in the parliament, which had earlier enabled them to interact freely with MPs. thewire.in/media/arbitrar…

@NWM_India issued a statement in solidarity with Pushpa Rokade, deeply concerned about the dire warnings, death threats issued to her. She has been consistently reporting on police atrocities as well as local issues and problems faced by Adivasi villagers.

https://twitter.com/NWM_India/status/1467026889684307971

'Targeted Harassment Of Press' : HW Network Journalists Move Supreme Court Challenging #Tripura Police FIR Over Reports On Communal Violence. @Samriddhi0809,@Jha_Swarnaa,@HWNewsEnglish, #PressFreedom
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#Tripura govt’s allergic reaction to journalism: The state used police to prevent the ‘negative’ word about the violence from getting out. To this end, journalists, civil society members and locals faced intimidation, interrogations and arrests. @sighyush newslaundry.com/2021/11/27/rep…

India: Excessive use of force and raids by police against journalists & Human Rights Defenders.

https://twitter.com/MaryLawlorhrds/status/1466708294026899463

Dozens of Dalits have been attacked on camera by upper castes in #Rajasthan in the last few years. The viral videos add a new layer to caste violence in a state where police fail to file chargesheets in nearly half of all caste crimes. @joyinderpura
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In a #Telangana village, around 70 families belonging to the Mala community are allegedly facing a social boycott because they opposed alleged encroachment on their land and want to preserve their ancestral practice of burials. @CharanT16 thenewsminute.com/article/telang…

#UttarPradesh police have released all of the eight ‘upper’ caste accused who had been held for the murder of four members of a Dalit family and now sent a 19-year-old Dalit man to jail, in addition to arresting two other Dalit youths. @thewire_in
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No proposal for banning #NSO Group, Govt tells #RajyaSabha. The company was involved in the #Pegasus spyware scandal.

https://twitter.com/LiveLawIndia/status/1466752104920272897

Facial recognition at airports from 2022: Airports at Varanasi, Pune, Kolkata and Vijayawada will be the first to roll out the facial recognition technology-based biometric boarding system, and the service will go live from March 2022. @the_hindu thehindu.com/news/national/…

India's New IT Rules Do Not Conform With International Human Rights Norms: UN Special Rapporteurs. livelaw.in/news-updates/i…

Government informs the #LokSabha that till now, it has not taken any decision to prepare the #NRC at the national level.

https://twitter.com/TheLeaflet_in/status/1465574748612485120

The Gauhati High Court set aside an ex-parte order by a Foreigners’ Tribunal (FT) declaring a Cachar district resident and his family members as “foreigners” and said that the petitioners should be given another opportunity to prove they are Indians. indianexpress.com/article/north-…

Ground report: Landless tribals, Muslims evicted from #Assam's Lumding forest struggle at makeshift camps. During the drive, the state government cleared 1,410 hectares and vacated more than 700 houses. @mhassanism @News9Tweets
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Sharjeel Imam's Speech Didn't Incite Violence, No Call To Bear Arms: Allahabad HC Grants Bail In Aligarh #Sedition Case @ISparshUpadhyay @livelawindia livelaw.in/news-updates/s…

#Tripura Civic Body Polls: Citizens claim that workers of the saffron party used intimidation tactics to stop them from voting, while opposition candidates assert that booth-capturing took place in full view of the police. @hrishirajanand_
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No data with the National Crime Records Bureau about the number of wrongfully prosecuted persons.

https://twitter.com/LiveLawIndia/status/1466748413685366784

The Allahabad High Court recently took note of a case related to a man against whom 49 cases were registered by the #UttarPradesh Police over a span of 23 years and directed for the presence of the Director-General of Police, UP before the Court.
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#COVID19: Only Punjab flagged four deaths due to oxygen shortage, claims the Union Government. But Delhi and Karnataka had also reported deaths due to shortages. Hospitals had put out tweets flagging their depleting oxygen stocks.
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