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The Sin of Binayak Sen

The sentencing of Sen by the Raipur Sessions Court is a measure of the Chhattisgarh government’s desperation to finesse its record of human rights violations

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30 Dec 2010 | BY Sudeep Chakravarti
Revolutionary Road

A fact-finding team from the Human Rights Lawyers Network visited Jharkhand, a state where Operation Green Hunt is underway. An inside view of such a mission.

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30 Jul 2010 | BY Pallavi Polanki
Where Are the Beautiful People?

Our human rights activists who oppose capital punishment choose not to speak for Kasab. That’s cowardly.

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6 May 2010 | BY Manu Joseph
Inconvenient Martyr

That a headscarf can cost someone her life is disturbing enough. That the world media looked the other way is worse

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19 Aug 2009 | BY Pramila N. Phatarphekar
Hear, Hear. But Do Listen

Denying an accused bail for as long as two years is by any standards a travesty of justice.

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3 Jul 2009 | BY Shivam Vij
Burma’s Steve Biko

Min Ko Naing just got the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights. Suu Kyi’s political heir is serving a 65-year term for organising the 2007 uprising

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9 Jun 2009 | BY Satya Sivaraman
Brotherhood of Urchins

On the streets of our cities, boys survive on a powerful code of absolute friendship

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30 May 2009 | BY Shubhangi Swarup
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