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The National Meet ‘Hum Jo Tareek Rahon Main Marey Gaye’ attended by approximately 300 people from across India including the political leaders was the culmination of a two major tribunals held in 2008 and 2009 to document the conditions of Muslims in India as well as years of effort by independent civil society members, groups and a section of the media to expose the nefarious designs of the Sangh communal and terror networks.

A tribute to KG Kannabiran, one of India’s foremost human rights activists, who died in December 2010

We, the undersigned, wish to express our deep concern at the victimisation and unjust imprisonment of well-known humanitarian and human rights defender Dr Binayak Sen, in Chhattisgarh.

Press release from the Working Group on Human Rights in India and the UN (WGHR) - a national coalition of fourteen human rights organisations and independent experts - issued in response to the recently concluded fact-finding mission to India of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Ms. Margaret Sekaggya.

The 13th Indian Association of Women’s Studies Convention underway in Wardha, Maharashtra has come under attack from the anti terror security police in India. One of the key organisers, Ilina Sen, who is the conference convener and also head of the Department of the Women’s Studies at the Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University (MGAHV), Wardha has seen a police case registered against her concerning bureaucratic rules and procedures about police reporting of foreigners participation in Conferences in India. The foreigners participating at the conference have valid tourist visas. The Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) have slapped charges of violations of Foreigners Act, 1946 and have arrested the owners, managers of two hotels where foreign participants to the conference were staying.