This may not be a declared Emergency. And, statistically, the crackdown might pale in relation to the Emergency. But the Emergency was merely about power. What we are seeing is something more insidious
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India: Twist in the Tale - Maharashtra Police Press Conference on August 31 on Nationwide Raids and Arrests Three Days Earlier
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Article 13 of the EU Copyright Directive Threatens the Global Internet - letter from Internet architects and pioneers
4 September 2018Article 13 of the EU Copyright Directive Threatens the Internet
As a group of the Internet’s original architects and pioneers and their successors, we write to you as a matter of urgency about an imminent threat to the future of this global network.
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‘We don’t have any fear’: India’s angry young men and its lynch mob crisis | Annie Gowen
3 September 2018It’s been a summer of rage in India. Dozens have been killed by lynch mobs, and extremist Hindus continue to assault and kill others, many of them Muslims. . . . India’s problem of male rage has roots beyond the strident Hindu nationalism embraced by the current government.
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India: Text of Open Letter from Former Civil Servants to Chief Minister of Punjab on Expansion of Blasphemy Laws
3 September 2018"The need of the hour is for all responsible stakeholders to act to reduce the space provided to religious fundamentalists of all kind – not open up space further to them."
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India: “Case against me is nothing but an absolute fabrication” - Full Statement by Stan Swamy
3 September 2018I believe that the possible reason behind this concoction of the case against me along with Sudha Bhardwaj is that I have been the convener of Persecuted Prisoners Solidarity Committee (PPSC) formed in December, 2015. I wish to make it clear that PPSC was formed purely to help under trial prisoners and it has no link whatsoever with any banned organizations.
