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‘Shocked by my arrest’: PDP leader Waheed Para on media, youth, militancy

People’s Democratic Party leader Waheed ur Rehman Para, who has been the party’s youth face, was booked under the stringent UAPA in 2020 and spent two years in incarceration. Now, he is fighting the assembly poll from Pulwama.

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‘Never got funds from foreign govt’: Singham’s business partner to Delhi police in NewsClick case

About two months after the Delhi Police Special Cell summoned five persons to join the investigation in the UAPA case against NewsClick chief Prabir Purkayastha, US-based Neville Roy Singham’s business partner Jason Pfetcher has replied, Indian Express reported. He reportedly said that People’s Support Foundation never received funds from any…

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‘BJP using UAPA as tool’: India’s youngest MP on political agenda, poll victory

Samajwadi Party leader Pushpendra Saroj had turned 25 years old just two weeks before the announcement of the Lok Sabha polls. He managed to win UP’s Kaushambi seat by defeating the BJP’s Vinod Sonkar, a two-time MP, with a margin of over 1 lakh votes.

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Open letter in India calls for withdrawal of go-ahead to prosecute Arundhati Roy

Over 200 signatories urge government to reverse decision enabling action against writer under anti-terrorism law

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The hounding of Arundhati Roy shows there’s still no room for dissent in India

Some thought the BJP’s reduced majority after recent elections would humble it. Tell that to the Booker prize-winning author, says writer Salil Tripathi

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Delhi L-G grants nod to prosecute Arundhati Roy in UAPA case

Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has granted sanction to prosecute author Arundhati Roy under the UAPA for her alleged provocative speech at an event in 2010, according to PTI.

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At Delhi event, NewsClick founder on ‘transformation after arrest’, meetings in jail

At about 5 pm today, while the temperature in Delhi touched 37 degrees Celsius, the open space on the ground floor of Delhi’s Press Club of India thronged with people. They’d all turned up to attend “Freedom of Expression in Today’s India” in solidarity with NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha.

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The cases and charges against the Bhima Koregaon 16 | Explained

Bhima Koregaon case: Legal status of the 16 activists, lawyers, scholars and artists arrested in the Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case in 2018.

The Hindu

Case ‘seems fictional’, ‘perils of alternate justice system’: Editorials laud Prabir Purkayastha’s release

NewsClick editor Prabir Purkayastha walked out of Tihar Jail on Wednesday night, hours after the Supreme Court said his arrest was illegal and ordered his immediate release.

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Delhi court grants bail to NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha after ‘invalid’ arrest; conditions imposed

NewsClick founder released; Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to NewsClick founder and editor Prabir Purkayastha in an Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) case.

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Probe agencies must give written grounds of arrest in UAPA cases, Supreme Court declares in NewsClick judgment

Supreme Court held that the right to life and personal liberty is the most sacrosanct of fundamental rights while declaring that investigating agencies should provide people arrested under the UAPA.

The Hindu

Why was NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha’s arrest invalidated by the top Court? | Explained

NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha arrest: Insulating accused persons against arbitrary police action, the Supreme Court said that the intimation of written grounds of arrest is ‘sacrosanct’ and applicable in all UAPA cases

The Hindu

SC orders release of NewsClick editor Prabir Purkayastha, says arrest illegal

The Supreme Court has ordered the release of NewsClick founder and editor Prabir Purkayastha in the UAPA case after holding that his arrest and remand were illegal, LiveLaw reported.

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Centre jailed, slapped UAPA on locals for Kashmir peace narrative: Mehbooba Mufti

Mehbooba Mufti criticizes Centre's use of UAPA to achieve peace in Kashmir, while campaigning for PDP candidate Waheed Parra.

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‘Reporters given money to distribute among rioters’: In NewsClick chargesheet gems

Reporters usually have strict deadlines from their editors when they go to protest sites. But if the Delhi Police chargesheet in the UAPA case against NewsClick is to be believed, the outfit’s reporters were allegedly sent to participate in protests, distribute money among protesters, and incite violence against the state.

The Hindu

Kodakara black money case: HC adjourns AAP’s plea for fast-tracking ED probe and action under UAPA

Kerala High Court adjourns AAP's plea for fast-tracking Kodakara black money case investigation, ED's probe nearing completion.

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‘Calls for humane understanding’: HC orders release of NewsClick case approver Amit Chakraborty

The Delhi High Court has ordered the release of NewsClick HR head Amit Chakraborty, who sought bail after turning approver in the UAPA case against the portal, LiveLaw reported.

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NewsClick founder plea against UAPA case: SC asks why remand order before remand application

Hearing NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha’s petition against his arrest in a UAPA case, the Supreme Court noted that the remand order was issued before his lawyer was served a remand application, LiveLaw reported.

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Delhi Riots 2020: High Court denies bail to accused in UAPA case

Delhi High Court denies bail to accused in UAPA case linked to 2020 riots, citing violent public demonstration as offence

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‘Significant abuse in Manipur, govt took minimal credible steps’: US report on human rights in India

The ethnic conflict between the Kuki and Meitei communities in Manipur have resulted in “significant human rights abuses”, said a recent report by the US State Department on human rights in India, citing media that “at least 175 persons were killed and more than 60,000 displaced between May 3 and…

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UAPA tribunal upholds ban against Shabir Shah’s outfit

A tribunal has upheld the Union government’s decision to declare the JKDFP, an ‘unlawful association’

The Hindu

Delhi Police file charge sheet against NewsClick in UAPA case

The Delhi Police on March 30 filed its first chargesheet against news portal NewsClick and its founder Prabir Purkayastha, in a case lodged under the provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, following allegations that they received funds through Chinese firms to spread pro-China propaganda.

The Hindu

NewsClick case: Delhi Police files over 8,000-page charge sheet, names Prabir Purkayastha as accused

Delhi Police files 8,000-page charge sheet in UAPA case against NewsClick founder for Chinese propaganda.

The Hindu

MHA designates Mohammad Qasim Gujjar as ‘individual terrorist’

The Ministry of Home Affairs designates Mohammad Qasim Gujjar as "individual terrorists" under UAPA for the terrorist activities.

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‘Not anti, only notional’: After GN Saibaba’s acquittal, editorials slam UAPA, ‘shoddy’ investigations

On March 5, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court set aside the conviction of former Delhi University professor GN Saibaba and five others, saying the prosecution had failed to prove its case.

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