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8th April, 2021: It’s more than two months since the Burmese military in a coup on 1 February refused to hand over the power to the National League for Democracy (NLD) after their victory in the November 2020 elections. Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the army’s commander-in-chief and Myanmar’s de-facto ruler has justified the coup on grounds of large-scale election fraud, though the elections commission has denied these allegations. Following the coup, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and many of her party NLD’s colleagues have been jailed under various charges including that of violating colonial Official Secrets Act. National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) condemns this undermining of the democratic transition and usurping of power by the military Junta.

Personnel of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) along with local police conducted a search and seize raid on the residence of VS Krishna, Human Rights Forum (HRF) AP & Telangana Coordination Committee member in Visakhapatnam last week. The raid started at about 5.35 pm on 31 March 2021, and ended at 2.30 am on 1 April 2021. In all, the NIA team seized six hard disks, one mobile, three sim cards, three SD cards and a few documents from his house. All his and his family’s bank details were photographed. The NIA team also interrogated him for a total period of about eight hours at their offices in Vizag on April 1 and 2.

An original composition by Fiddler’s Green, this music video was shot and produced in Kolkata in March - April 2021. It highlights the dangers posed by communalism to society in India, and Bengal in particular. | Produced & Directed by
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
MithunPramanik

People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)
5th April, 2021
PUCL mourns and condemns the heavy loss of lives in the encounter between Maoists and security forces in Chhattisgarh. We are deeply distressed and completely disapprove the action of the Maoists which caused the loss of life of 22 security personnel in the encounter on April 3rd in forests near Jonaguda village in Sukma along the road connecting Bijapur –Sukma districts. What causes us great concern are reports that injured (…)

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