Poet-Social activist Varavara Rao as he returns home to be placed under house arrest, in Hyderabad on Thursday, Aug 30, 2018. Supreme Court gave relief to Rao and four other rights...
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Human rights activist Arun Ferreira being arrested from his residence in Thane after the Pune Sessions Court rejected his bail plea in Bhima Koregaon violence case.
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Activists address the media during a press conference on Supreme Court's verdict in relation with Koregaon-Bhima violence arrests, in New Delhi. The Supreme Court refused to interf...
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Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) spokesperson and advocate Nalin Kohli addresses the media after the verdict on five activists in Bhima-Koregaon case, in New Delhi.
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Advocates Vrinda Grover and Prashant Bhushan address the media after the verdict on five activists in Bhima-Koregaon case, in New Delhi.
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Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan addresses the media, at Supreme Court premises in New Delhi. The Supreme Court extended till September 12, the house arrest of five rights act...
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Protesters shout slogans during a protest demanding the release of all political prisoners in New Delhi. Five prominent rights activists were arrested for alleged Maoist links in a...
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Protesters shout slogans during a protest demanding the release of all political prisoners in New Delhi. Five prominent rights activists were arrested for alleged Maoist links in a...
Photo by Suresh Pandey /Outlook
Protesters shout slogans during a protest demanding the release of all political prisoners in New Delhi. Five prominent rights activists were arrested for alleged Maoist links in a...
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Maharashtra Police ADG (Law and Order) Param Bir Singh interacts with the media about the house arrest of rights activists in Bhima Koregaon case, in Mumbai.
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Maharashtra Police ADG (Law and Order) Param Bir Singh, with Pune's Additional CP Shivaji Bodke (L), at a press conference about the house arrest of rights activists in Bhima Koreg...
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Activists of Jan Ekta Jan Adhikar Andolan' display placards during a protest against the arrests of activists and alleged state repression, in New Delhi.
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Left Front Chairman Biman Bose and other activists participate in a rally to protest against the recent police raids on the premises of social activists and their house arrest, in ...
"We were all born Indians, lived as Indians all our lives. These activists are fighting for good causes and terming them urban naxal is a political move," she said.
In its earlier hearing on the case, the SC had said: “Dissent is the safety valve of democracy... the pressure cooker will burst if you don’t allow the safety valves."
Under the pretext of '#urbannaxals', police barged into a central university campus, raided Dalit intellectual Prof Satyanarayana's house, and seized all his academic work. A student recounts the ordeal.