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Last year, we saw the state respond to COVID-19 as a law & order problem rather than a public health disaster. We saw the violence of #PandemicPolicing , more criminalization,

Thank you so much to @FreeAasifSultan for curating the handle last week. We wish Aasif's family strength and solidarity to all those fighting for his release from wrongful detention. #FreeAasifSultanHere

We are facing an unprecedented clampdown on dissent in India. State repression has been ongoing against grassroots human rights activists & lawyers using anti-terror laws, who are being framed by

WHO IS AASIF SULTAN?He is an assistant editor with the monthly magazine, Kashmir Narrator, and is based in Srinagar, Kashmir. As a part of his role, his writings have

Here’s a master thread of a ten day curation on #AntiTerrorLaws & #UAPA led by @GuneetKaurAhuja & @aimanjkhan who brought to fore critical inputs from Sahana Manjesh, Parijata @mrinpinshar, @SarimNaved

Helle, we are @aimanjkhan & @GuneetKaurAhuja. On Friday, we discussed how UAPA's wide powers to discriminatory governments & investigating agencies are arbitrarily used to target minorities, marginalized & HRDs. 1/nhttps://t

The following thread has been curated by @mrinpinshar from @AIIndia, using data from National Crime Record Bureau’s annual crime statistics to observe patterns that have emerged in the ways that

Hello, we are @guneetkaurahuja and @aimanjkhan, today we will look at the system of sanctions under UAPA. This discussion is curated based on notes and research done by Advocate Parijata.

What happened to the communities criminalised under the Criminal Tribes Act in India after its repeal? How did everyday experiences of criminalisation change across 1947? Did penal practices change after

How did stereotypes of criminality influence state policy towards the former “criminal tribes” (“CTs”) – now known as “denotified tribes” – in the years after Indian independence in 1947? How

From 1890, children from so-called “criminal tribes” were forcibly removed from their parents & institutionalised. The history of forced child removal in settler colonies (like Australia) is well known, but