The India Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that no coercive actions should be taken against the four members of the Editors Guild of India over formal complaints, known in India as first information report (FIR), filed by Manipur Police accusing the guild of promoting enmity between different groups, defamation and criminal conspiracy—among other charges. Manipur [...]
Facebook’s parent company Meta has rejected the recommendation of its Oversight Board to suspend the Facebook account of former Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen for violating its policy on incitement. The decision stems from a January video in which Sen threatened his political opponents with violence, allegedly in violation of Facebook’s community standards. In its [...]
UN Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor condemned on Monday the nearly decade-long detention of former Delhi University professor and human rights activist GN Saibaba, who was arrested back in 2014 over his suspected links with the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist). Lawlor called upon Indian authorities to release Saibaba from detention, calling his continued detention [...]
The Chief Minister of the Indian state of Uttarakhand, Pushkar Singh Dhami, announced Tuesday the withdrawal of cases filed against students during 2022 anti-Agnipath protests. In his Independence Day speech, the Chief Minister declared that the cases filed against students protesting against the Indian government’s Agnipath scheme for military recruitment will be withdrawn shortly, as [...]
The Supreme Court of India has appointed former Maharashtra Director General of Police (DGP) Dattatray Padsalgikar to supervise the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) probe into the ongoing violence in Manipur, a small state in north-east India. In an order made public on Thursday, the Supreme Court condemned delays in the CBI’s investigation and ordered [...]
The upper house of the Indian Parliament, the Rajya Sabha, passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 Wednesday amidst significant protest from the opposition. Earlier versions of the bill were considered in 2019 and 2022, but both were eventually withdrawn. The current version of the bill was introduced on August 5th, despite concerns from [...]
The Government of India introduced a new digital privacy bill in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s Parliament, on Thursday after withdrawing a similar privacy bill last year. The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 was introduced over privacy concerns voiced by opposition leaders, who argued that the bill should be submitted to [...]
People living in parts of the northern Indian state of Haryana remained under a government-imposed curfew with suspended mobile internet services on Tuesday because of ongoing violence between members of the local Hindu and Muslim communities. Fights broke out between two groups in Nuh, close to Gurugram, killing five and injuring at least 70 others, [...]
After a disturbing video went viral depicting the sexual assault of two Kuki-Zo tribal women in Manipur, a small state in north-east India, the Supreme Court of India took suo moto cognizance of the event Thursday. Suo moto cognizance is the right of the Supreme Court and the High Court of India to accept cases [...]
The death toll of West Bengal’s electoral violence increased Saturday when two more people were reported killed over issues related to the state’s recent village council elections. Since the West Bengal State Election Commission released its schedule for the elections, which were held on July 8, West Bengal has seen extensive violence. Even while the [...]
