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• India: Statement on the arrest of respected rights activists on way to Lalgarh

  by Committee For The Release of Political Prisoners
  (3 July)
  Committee For The Release Of Political Prisoners
  185/3, Fourth Floor, Zakir Nagar, New Delhi
  Condemn the arrest of of Medha Patkar, Gopal Menon,  (…)
  
  

• India: End to unnatural exclusion

  by Shohini Ghosh
  (2 July)
  In a historic judgement, a two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice Murlidharan has decriminalised non-heterosexual sex between consenting adults. In an eloquently argued judgement of 150 pages, the bench has struck down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), a colonial legislation drafted by Lord Macaulay in 1860, that criminalised “carnal intercourse against the order of nature” punishable by imprisonment extending up to ten years.