Political prisoners
- India
2020 Delhi riots: SC annoyed over police seeking adjournment on bail pleas
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed strong displeasure over the Delhi Police seeking adjournment of hearing on pleas against the bail granted to three student activists in the 2020 North East…
- India
Free Elgar Parishad political prisoners, demands Maha CPI(M)
Mumbai: Against the backdrop of the revelations that there was no connection between the Elgar Parishad held in Pune on December 31, 2017 and the caste violence that erupted in Bhima Koregaon…
- India
‘Muslim political prisoners are persecuted in India for their faith’
Washington: Muslim Prisoners of Conscience (POCs) incarcerated in India on false criminal charges continue to face beatings, torture and other forms of violence for speaking out against the government’s persecution of religious…
- Kashmir
Hurriyat leader Ashraf Sehrai’s death raises concern on the plight of Kashmiri prisoners
Srinagar: The death of jailed senior separatist leader and Tehreek-e-Hurriyat (TeH) chairman Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai has raised serious questions regarding the plight faced by Kashmiri prisoners outside the valley with many calling…
