Human Rights

Malegaon 2006 blast case: NIA likely to quiz Maharashtra ATS officials
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

 

New Delhi:
When will NIA probe Shiv Raj Patil the right wing white dressed Congress Home-Minister who has been granted immunity by the Manmohan singh government by appointing him a Governor?

Will any amount of love and care for Minorities by Indian political parties carry any weight until the real conspirators of Anti-Minoritism Agenda [RSS] IS BANNED.

Guantanamo closure hopes fade as prison turns 10
Sunday, January 15th, 2012

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is an extrajudicial detainment and interrogation facility of the United States located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.

· The facility was established in 11 January 2002 by the Bush Administration to hold detainees from the war inAfghanistan and later Iraq.

· The detainment areas consist of three camps: Camp Delta (which includes Camp Echo), Camp Iguana, and Camp X-Ray, the last of which has been closed.

CBI to take control of Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team constituted to probe Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case is set to take control of the investigation from Thursday.

The case was transferred to the crime branch after SIT had lodged a complaint declaring that the encounter was fake. The CBI so far has registered a case against 20 Gujarat police officers on grounds of murder and destruction of evidence.

The CBI earlier registered an FIR in the case with the CBI's Mumbai Special Crime Unit.
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Get together by NCHRO in Kota, Rajasthan
Sunday, January 1st, 2012

Kota 30 Dec. National Confederation of Human rights organizations (NCHRO) organized a Get -together in Kota Rajasthan. In this get -together eminent Human Rights activists expressed their deep concerns on anti people laws like UAPA and AFSPA.

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NCHRO leaders visit Koodankulam protest site
Friday, December 30th, 2011
Koodankulam: Leaders of National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations (NCHRO) visited Koodankulam protest site to express solidarity to the ongoing agitation against nuclear plant here.
It was the leaders of Kerala and Tamilnadu chapters of NCHRO visited the site and promised all the help for the protesters.
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NCHRO kickstarts signature campaign : Abolish Death Penalty - Save the lives of Perarivalan, Murugan, Sandhan
Friday, December 23rd, 2011
Chennai: National Confederation of Human rights organizations (NCHRO) had started a Signature campaign on December 14, 2011 before the Madras High Court demanding the central govt. to abolish Death Penalty and save the lives of Perarivalan, Murugan, Sandhan.

NCHRO State Vice-President, Adv. M.G.K. Nizamuddin Ex MLA presided the campaign.

11 acquitted in Jaipur blasts case
Sunday, December 11th, 2011
A Fast Track Sessions Court here on Friday acquitted 11 of the 14 persons arrested from Kota, Baran and Jodhpur in the aftermath of the May 2008 Jaipur serial blasts. The court did not find any evidence that could connect the accused with the alleged crime.
The Anti-Terrorism Squad of Rajasthan police had claimed that all the accused, who it said were members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), were extending support for building a terror network in the State and had attended "terror camps" organised in the Kota region prior to the Jaipur blasts.
Collector offers compensation amount of Rs 7.5 Lac to Hasanammal
NCHRO : Rs 7.5 Lacs compensation awarded in Custodial Murder Case
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Kadayanallur : Hasanammal, the wife of the deceased Mohamed Masood who was brutally murdered in police custody, today on October 25, 2011, got the compensation amount of Rupees 7,52,084 in the form of a cheque.

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Abolish death penalty: NCHRO seminar
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
Kozhikode: National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations (NCHRO) seminar held here on death penalty appealed the authorities to abolish capital punishment.
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Kerala Police misbehaved human rights activist alleging Maoist connection
Saturday, October 15th, 2011
Thrissur: Kerala police detained eminent human rights activists and social worker A Vasu for more than six hours alleging Maoist connection. It was Thrissur police detained him early in the morning from a rest house here under state public works department. They didn’t even give him time to do his morning routines.
Ramanathapuram Tragedy, Implement Fact Finding Team recommendations: NCHRO Urges TN State Govt
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Implement the recommendations of All India Human Rights Bodies' Fact Finding Report regarding Paramakkudi Police Firing on Dalits NCHRO State Committee Urges Tamilnadu State Govt.

The State Committee meeting of NCHRO Tamilnadu Chapter (National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations) was held at Madurai on Saturday (24.9.11). The meeting was presided by Vice-President M.G.K. Nizamuddin, Ex. M.L.A.. NCHRO National Co-Ordinater Reny Ayline inaugurated the meeting and General Secretary Adv. A. Mohamed Yusuff submitted the working report.

Police Shooting at Paramakudi TN : Fact finding team Report
Paramakudi police firing is a result of an "anti-Dalit bias" among police says a fact-finding report
Saturday, September 24th, 2011
A fact-finding team, comprising civil rights activists and intellectuals from Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, visited Paramakudi, Ramanathapuram and Madurai on September, 19 and 20 and met the family members of the deceased and injured at hospitals, government officials and general public to inquire about the police firing and subsequent attack in which six Dalits were killed and many injured.

The team said here on Wednesday that casteist forces among the State machinery and certain sections of the dominant castes did not like to see Dalits getting organised and celebrate

Gujarat: Mallika Sarabhai, riot victims detained
Monday, September 19th, 2011
Zeenews Bureau

Naroda: The Gujarat police on Sunday detained activist Mallika Sarabhai and several victims of the 2002 riots at Naroda Patia ahead of a planned protest against Chief Minister Narendra Modi's 'sadbhavna' (goodwill) fast.

On day two of Modi's fast, activists Mukul Sinha, Bharat P Jala and Shamshad Pathan were also detained.

Death penalty warrants imposition in some cases: SC
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that that the presence of death penalty in the statute book means that it can be imposed in heinous and gruesome murder cases, such as those relating to honour killing, dowry death, fake encounters and hired killings.

This ruling was handed down by a bench of Justices Markandey Katju and C K Prasad while upholding death penalty to one Ajitsingh Harnamsingh Gujral who killed his wife and three grown up children in Mumbai in April 2003.

Supreme Court upholds preventive detention order
Monday, September 12th, 2011
The Supreme Court has held that in the matter of preventive detention, once the detaining authority is subjectively satisfied about the various offences labelled against the detenu, habituality in continuing the same, difficulty in controlling him under normal circumstances, he is free to pass appropriate order to detain him.

Giving this ruling, a Bench of Justices P. Sathasivam and B.S. Chauhan said: "The law is clear that as far as subjective satisfaction is concerned, it should either be reflected in the detention order or in the affidavit justifying the detention order."

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