Civil Liberties
YOGENDRA YADAV in https://theprint.in/opinion/jaishankars-problem-is-stark-no-amount-of-external-pr-can-cover-up-indias-truth/623325
This is not to dispute Jaishankar’s charge of hypocrisy. Of course, Europe or North America is nobody to distribute certificates of democracy. Not just because their certificates are inevitably linked to their foreign policy and economic interests but also because their own democracy is deeply flawed. ..
It was rich of Jaishankar to claim that India was not looking for approval from the West. Facts suggest otherwise. No prime minister before Narendra Modi has held melas outside India to promote his image. No head of government was as keen to please an American president as Modi was to Donald Trump. No government has made such a song and dance about a routine Ease of Doing Business Index as this one did, a ranking that landed in a manipulation controversy. Never have Indian government officials preferred International Monetary Fund (IMF) data over India’s own statistics as during this government. No one in the world has tried to claim credit for a high score on severity of lockdown index as this government’s enthusiasts did. ...
https://theprint.in/opinion/no-emergency-modi-shah-are-using-democracy-to-subvert-democracy/447685/
The Emergency had a beginning and was, at least on paper, required to have an end. The new system that we now live under has a beginning, but no one is sure if it has an end. The challenge to democracy does not await us in a distant future. We are living in it. By looking for an Emergency in our times, we forget to notice that the first Republic inaugurated with the Constitution of India is already over. .. the book How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future.. reminds us that democracies mostly die an unspectacular, slow and barely visible death, mostly at the hands of democratically elected leaders, often through legal instruments. “The tragic paradox of the electoral route to authoritarianism is that democracy’s assassins use the very institutions of democracy – gradually, subtly, and even legally – to kill it.”
More than 9,843 garment workers and their families face wage theft at eight factories supplying 16 fashion brands including H&M, Nike & Levi’s.
Combined, these brands have recorded profits of at least US$10 billion in the second half of 2020 alone.
https://media.business-humanrights.org/media/documents/Wage_theft_and_pandemic_profits.pdf
I Want to Be a Symbol of Resistance, Not Fear for Young People in India - Safoora Zargar I HBB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBfaH7FHKmA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X41PWNF4rI
"We are proud to say that the United Against Hate campaign has always stood by those people who have been oppressed by the state and its policies." says Nadeem Khan as he comments on the unfair means by which innocent students, activists and leaders are being imprisoned by the state.
the Supreme Court in its new KA Najeeb judgment has held that a provision like Section 43D(5) “does not oust the ability of Constitutional Courts to grant bail on grounds of violation of Part III of the Constitution ( on fundamental rights). ”https://www.thequint.com/amp/story/news/law/sc-judgment-uapa-bail-fundamental-rights-long-incarceration-no-trial-ka-najeeb-nia
“This Court has clarified in numerous judgments that the liberty guaranteed by Part III of the Constitution would cover within its protective ambit not only due procedure and fairness but also access to justice and a speedy trial,”
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