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AT News Lockdown Spurs Manipur Govt's War On Free Speech A state government uses India’s 150-year-old sedition law and a law to address natural disasters to curb even the mildest of online criticism about its handling of the Covid-19 outbreak. How social-media posts are leading to time in jail, with 13 cases filed just in April MAKEPEACE SITLHOU Imphal… 29/07/2020 - 8:59pm

AT News Punjab Gurdwara Sermons Against Dalits Are Illegal Panchayat orders in Punjab, broadcast from loudspeakers of gurudwaras during the recent paddy-sowing season, warned upper-caste Jat Sikh landowners of fines, social boycotts if they paid more than a fixed rate to and gave food to mostly Dalit landless agricultural labour. ARJUN SHARMA/101 REPORTE… 26/07/2020 - 10:17am

AT News CAA: Home Ministry Misses Deadline to Finalise Rules, Implementation Likely to be Delayed News reports have it that the stipulated six-month period to finalise rules of the Citizenship Amendment Act is over. The amendment saw widespread protests across the country. 19/07/2020 - 12:01am

AT News Poet And Former Lecturer Varavara Rao Dying In Jail As his phone calls to family from prison grow more delirious and disjointed, Varavara Rao’s family demands immediate medical attention for the 79-year-old, incarcerated for 22 months without trial PRIYA RAMANI Bengaluru: “We make only one demand. Don't kill him in jail.” A day after a worrying ph… 13/07/2020 - 11:38am

AT News India’s high number of asymptomatic cases worrying, and herd immunity is far off India cannot repetitively search and sieve entire population to identify asymptomatic persons through Covid testing. So, practice social distancing and personal hygiene. 28/06/2020 - 11:41pm

AT News As FIRs Against Media Pile Up, Inconsistent SC Response Points to Judicial Incoherence Four recent cases involving the media – Vinod Dua and Arnab Goswami, Amish Devgan and 'OpIndia' – bring out the apex court's inconsistent orders on staying FIRs. 28/06/2020 - 10:24pm

AT News The Sedition Trial Of Editor Dhaval Patel Judge grants bail to Gujarat editor charged with sedition for writing political story, says police charge of hatred, contempt for govt or move to “excite disaffection” does not hold. But Dhaval Patel faces long legal battle GARGI RAVAL & ANKUSH BANDYOPADHYAY Ahmedabad: “Sarkar ne aisa mana ki aap… 28/06/2020 - 2:58pm

AT News Under Cover Of Covid, India’s Poor Lose Their Homes Courts were not working. Protests were not possible. People were meant to stay indoors. Instead, some state governments used the lockdown to remove hundreds from their homes, ignoring a United Nations warning that such evictions could be a “potential death sentence”. NIHAR GOKHALE & MRIDULA CHARI… 24/06/2020 - 8:32pm

AT News FIR Against Scroll Editor Latest In Series Of Police Cases Against Indian Journalists UP police file FIR under four sections of the law, including two that prohibit anticipatory bail, against executive editor of popular news website for a story on people going hungry during the Covid-19 lockdown in the prime minister’s constituency. 55 cases filed against journalists nationwide in… 20/06/2020 - 10:04pm

AT News Laws Broken, Forest Hacked To Widen Highway By disregarding or manipulating the law, state governments and the national highway authority hacked more than 20,000 trees—before a court stepped in—for a seemingly innocuous project to widen a national highway. 24/05/2020 - 11:07am

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