The 20 activists have been slapped with sedition cases for publishing critical posts against the Raghubar Das-led BJP government on Facebook and for allegedly playing a prominent role in the Pathal...

Amulya Leona used various social media platforms, including the dating app Tinder, to mobilise support for the anti-CAA protests in the state. She now faces sedition charges and mobs have targeted...

The 20 activists have been slapped with sedition cases for publishing critical posts against the Raghubar Das-led BJP government on Facebook and for allegedly playing a prominent role in the Pathal...

The activists have been accused of having violated the Model Code of Conduct when they went to submit their report on the deaths of two alleged Maoists in a police encounter.

There is speculation that she was targeted because she had helped the family of a man shot dead by the chief minister’s son, though the police denied this.

Human rights activist Bondita Acharya on Monday said she has been allegedly threatened by some Bajrang Dal activists and individuals 'propagating Hind

Kalita is currently in judicial custody for another case relation to the Delhi riots.

Gulfisha’s lawyer said contrary to media reports Gulfisha is not a member of Pinjra Tod or a student of Jamia.

The case, which also mentions Grover as an accused, has been registered on a complaint from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), which had in 2016 cancelled the FCRA license of the NGO.

A local court today rejected charges of attempt to suicide against rights activist Irom Chanu Sharmila by her indefinite fast for 14 years demanding repeal of AFSPA and ordered her immediate release...

How the police in Chhattisgarh is intimidating those who expose its excesses in the region. 

A Delhi court on Saturday granted interim bail for 10 days to former municipal councillor from the Congress Ishrat Jahan, who has been booked under th

Kawalpreet Kaur accused the police of trying to intimidate her because of her activism, saying she was only involved in distributing relief to the victims of the violence.

IND 002 / 0219 / OBS 012 Harassment India February 8, 2019 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the (...)

After facing acute hostility from anti-Maoist vigilantes, journalist Malini Subramaniam who spent nearly half-a-decade in Chhattisgarh's restive Basta

Photojournalist Masrat Zahra was booked under amended UAPA law in which an individual can be designated a terrorist and sentenced to jail for upto 7 years.

"The state government is just making announcements, statements and giving out figures, but is doing nothing on the issue," she alleged.

Headmistress Farida Begum and Nazbunnisa, the mother of a girl studying in fifth grade in the same school, are those arrested in the case.

There was “large-scale violence” inside jail number six meant for women prisoners in Tihar prison complex and officials, who allegedly beat up some foreign inmates on June 16, were also intimidating...

The accusations against the Quint's reporter centre around the proposition that she filmed the jawans in an army camp, which is prohibited by law.

Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai will now have to face criminal defamation case filed by a company

It’s been one year since the first 5 activists were arrested on 6 June in connection with Bhima Koregaon protests.

Manipur-based human rights defender (HRD) Sobita Mangstabam was threatened and harassed by an off-duty police officer on July 24, 2019, probably as a revenge for supporting his wife in a domestic...

The braveheart activist from Bastar, Soni Sori’s foray into becoming a politician is one that sets her apart from her contemporaries.

Sudha's lawyer Yug Chaudhry told Justice Sarang Kotwal that the police merely relied on six documents, most of them typed letters and some of them naming her, to build their case against her.

The court directed the couple to cooperate with the investigation and appear before probe agency as and when required. He said that in case of any default, the state can file for their bail cancell...

: The Salem police on Tuesday arrested Valarmathi, a student activist, on the charge of attempting to disrupt a meeting of revenue and police officials with stake holders of Achankuttapatti on the pro