When Cops Rape … and Nothing Happens #Vaw
The American Prospect / By Steve Yoder Police officers who sexually assault women rarely face the consequences of their actions. How can that be changed? May 23, 2013 | When 20-year-old Sarah Smith...
View ArticlePolice of Murshidabad planfully attacking activists of MASUM
25 May 2013 To The Chairman National Human Rights Commission Faridkot House Copernicus Marg New Delhi Respected Sir I want to draw your attention on incidents of consecutive threatening on...
View ArticleKolkata- Cops ban ‘law-violating’ rallies in heart of city
May 26, 2013, TNN KOLKATA: In a meeting with all political parties in the state, Kolkata Police commissioner Surajit Kar Purakayastha on Saturday announced that law-violation programmes will no longer...
View ArticlePRESS RELEASE- Repression of people affected by Kharak Dam in Madhya Pradesh
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE REPORT ON THE REPRESSION OF THE PEOPLE AFFECTED BY KHARAK DAM IN VILLAGE CHAUKHAND, DISTRICT KHARGONE, MADHYA PRADESH on 26th May 2013 TERROR IN THE VILLAGE: At around 10.30...
View ArticleMumbai- A Forum to Hear complaint against Cops #Goodnews
Authority to be set up at state, district level; recommendations to be binding on force Sayli Udas Mankikar MUMBAI: Citizens who have complaints about the high-handedness of policemen, unnecessary...
View ArticleOdisha -Group clashes in Gobindapur over Posco
By Express News Service – PARADIP 31st May 2013 12:13 PM Despite deployment of one platoon of police force, law and order situation worsened in Gobindapur village due to group clash on Thursday. Betel...
View ArticleDalits live in fear in Tuticorin village
STAFF REPORTER, The Hindu The Dalits of K. Velayudhapuram village near Kazhugumalai in Tuticorin district are living in fear of violence as they resisted the efforts of a dominant caste to marginalise...
View Article#India – 17 year old abducted and Gang raped in Delhi #Vaw #Rape
STAFF REPORTER, The Hindu . June 3, 2013 All three accused, in their 30s, have been arrested A 17-year-old girl was allegedly abducted by three men in Nangloi while she was out for a stroll near her...
View ArticleMass Incarceration USA: How a Broken System Perpetuates Itself
by Robert C. Koehler “Wheel about and turn about and do just so. Every time I turn about I jump Jim Crow.” — chorus of an 1828 minstrel song “We have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely...
View Article#India – Does law do justice to the poor & hapless?
June 9, 2013, The Hindu MATTHEW ADUKANIL The powerful are presumed innocent until proved guilty but the indigent citizen under arrest is considered guilty until he is proved innocent Learned judges...
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