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The Central Review Committee established by the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) today rejected the arguments posed by Tamil Nadu in the ongoing case around the Committee’s powers.  The Committee held that it has the power to intervene in the cases regarding the detention of a senior political leader and eight others: The powers conferred [...]

Brad Adams, Executive Director, Asia Division, Human Rights Watch, addressed a press conference in Amritsar, co-hosted by the Association of Families of the Disappeared in Punjab (AFDP) and the Committee for Information and Initiative in Punjab (CIIP).  Adams expressed concern over the inordinate delay in the proceedings of the Punjab illegal cremations matter, pending before [...]

Ashok Singhal, a top leader of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) whose party leaders were cited by victims as leading massacres of Muslims in Gujarat in early 2002, warned that “If there’s another effort to create another Pakistan in India, all of India would become another Gujarat.”  He was speaking at a felicitation ceremony for [...]

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