Activists mark four years in jail under India’s UAPA without trial or bail
Umar Khalid and more than a dozen activists have spent four years in prison under India’s controversial Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), with no trial or bail. The cases are widely seen as politically motivated efforts to suppress dissent
Activist Gautam Navlakha released from prison, put under house arrest
The 70-year-old rights activist was released from prison after two years. A police team took him to a building in the Belapur-Agroli area of Navi Mumbai where he will be staying
UN Special Rapporteur’s book on Julian Assange lays bare a decade-long witchhunt
Nils Melzer’s The Trial of Julian Assange details how the whistleblower was “persecuted and abused for exposing the dirty secrets of the powerful, including war crimes, torture and corruption”
Sudha Bharadwaj granted bail in Bhima Koregaon case after 3 years and other stories
Today we look at the release of Indian activist Sudha Bharadwaj after 3 years in jail, the murder of Filipino journalist Jesus Malabanan, and more
‘People’s Lawyer’ Sudha Bharadwaj released after three years in jail
The activist-lawyer was granted default bail on December 1 following more than three years of her incarceration without trial in the Bhima Koregaon case in which a number of other activists were also implicated
Indian activist Gautam Navlakha shifted to high-security barrack
The health of the 70-year-old activist has deteriorated following the move. Prison authorities are now denying the family and his lawyer phone calls with him on the pretext that inmates can now be met in jail physically
Pegasus spyware: How it works, who were the targets
The spyware may have been used by governments across the world to spy on journalists, activists, rival politicians, leaders of other countries among others
Reporters without Borders asks Israel to stop spyware export following Pegasus Project revelations
Several governments have been accused of using the Israeli spyware to snoop on dissidents and journalists in reports published by 17 media organisations worldwide recently
Israeli software Pegasus may have been used to spy on activists, politicians, journalists globally
The revelation was made in a report published by The Guardian and 16 other media organizations on Sunday which is based on the findings of Amnesty International and Paris based Forbidden Stories.
How the Indian state neglects the health of political prisoners
84 year old human rights activist, priest and political prisoner Stan Swamy died in hospital on July 5 in India. Many have called his death an ‘institutional murder’ and a ‘custodial killing.’
Haiti’s de facto president Jovenel Moïse killed in overnight attack and other stories
Today we look at the killing of Haiti’s de facto president Jovenel Moïse, soldiers accused of killing civilians as part of Colombia’s false positives case and more
In this episode, we take a look at the death political prisoner Father Stan Swamy, prisoner Bashir Ahmad Baba, who spent 11 years in jail before he was acquitted and finally, from the city of Chennai, food delivery workers talk about the issues they face due to the pandemic
