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  ’Good Termites’ vs ’Bad Termites’ Gameplay by the Modi Govt: Religious Criteria Introduced Into India’s Citizenship Law - Citizenship Amendement Act 2019 - Select Commentary

  14 December

  The citizenship bill is “the first legal articulation that India is, you might say, a homeland for Hindus,” said Pratap Bhanu Mehta, one of India’s most prominent political scientists. Mehta believes the measure violates the Indian constitution, which guarantees equal rights before the law to all people within the country.

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  India: Statement by People’s Union for Civil Liberties on Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019

  13 December

  PUCL deplores the promulgation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 on 12th December, as a law which renders asunder the basic structure of India’s constitutional scheme founded on the stated goals of secularism, respect for diversity and peaceful coexistence of all communities, without distinction of community, caste, creed or other differences. The PUCL declares that, collectively with others, it will work towards restoration of universal principles of citizenship in India.

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  India: Letter to Chief Justice, High Court of Telangana from Women’s and People’s Organizations on 4 Police Encounter Deaths in Hyderabad | 6 Dec 2019

  7 December

  We look up to this Hon’ble Court’s immediate intervention in safeguarding women’s rights and civil liberties as ensured by the Constitution

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  India: Statement by Anhad on a lawmaker inside the Parliament advocating public lynching of the culprits in the Hyderabad rape case

  3 December

  We express our shock and outrage at the statement of Samajwadi Party MP, Jaya Bachchan, in the Rajya Sabha yesterday calling for public lynching of the culprits in the Hyderabad rape case.

• Arundhati Roy: It’s Hard to Communicate the Scale and the Shape of This Shadow Taking India Over | Democrcay Now, 28 Nov 2019

  2 December

  Human rights groups are condemning the Indian government for carrying out widespread torture, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and other crimes in Kashmir after the region’s special status was revoked in August. We speak to the acclaimed Indian author Arundhati Roy about the crackdown in Kashmir, rising authoritarianism in India and other issues.

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