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'Hate crime': Minorities in Gujarat face targeted attacks; report reveals 55 incidents in 2022 https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2024/Jan/26/hate-crime-minorities-in-gujarat-face-targeted-attacks-report-reveals-55-incidents-in-2022  Report by the Minority Coordination Committee (MCC)  documents a total of 55 unsettling incidents, with 53 assaults directed towards Muslims and two incidents targeting Christians, prompting a closer examination of the challenges faced by minority groups in the state.

The MCC report titled 'TARGETED: DOCUMENTING INCIDENTS AFFECTING MINORITIES IN GUJARAT' was released in October 2023, with seventy leaders from various areas of the state collaborating to acquire and compile material and produce the study.

Report for 2023: \6246 -Targeted_Report 2023.pdf" (to be uploaded)

‘Serious job’: How a collective in election-bound India fights hate speech  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/7/how-a-collective-in-indias-karnataka-is-standing-up-to-hate-ahead-of-polls  Hate Speech Beda trains volunteers from across the southern state of Karnataka on using the law to combat hate crimes. It’s an uphill battle, but they’re not giving up.

India: Increased Abuses Against Minorities, Critics...
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/01/11/india-increased-abuses-against-minorities-critics
The Indian government undermined its aspirations for global leadership as a rights-  The BJP government’s discriminatory and divisive policies have led to increased
violence against minorities, creating a pervasive environment of fear and a chilling effect
on government critics,” said Meenakshi Ganguly, deputy Asia director at Human Rights
Watch. “Instead of holding those responsible for abuses to account, the authorities
chose to punish the victims, and persecuted anyone who questioned these actions.”
In the 740-page World Report 2024, its 34th edition, Human Rights Watch reviews
human rights practices in more than 100 countries.

'EVMs more robust than Hezbollah pagers': EC shoots down Cong claim' https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/evms-more-robust-than-hezbollah-pagers-ec-shoots-down-cong-claim/articleshow/114262468.cms

WA by SS:  It's a constitutional body speaking or the IT Cell??? Mark the tone, tenor and the language.

It's quite another thing that Rashid Alvi's demand under the obtaining circumstances is stupendously stupid and utterly suicidal. The "Chandigarh Mayoral poll" is enough of an illustration. The EC must of course come clean on the complaints and the demands, as regards the Haryana state poll, of by far the largest opposition party in the state, and also the main opposition party nationally, within a reasonable timeframe.
If it doesn't, no stone should be left unturned to make it discharge its mandated task.

The Right to Live Under the Grip of UAPA  Eenadu 15.10-2024

Professor Saibaba, who languished in prison for ten years for a crime he did not commit, passed away last Saturday. With a 90% disability, he endured a hellish experience in a dark cell. He was not even allowed to see his mother one last time when she passed away. 

The Bombay High Court, which determined that there was no evidence to support the charges against Saibaba, overturned his life sentence last March, describing the criminal proceedings against him as a 'judicial failure.' 

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