The Three Criminal Law Bills: Using Criminal Law to Establish Permanent Extra-Constitutional Emergency Powers
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The Three Criminal Law Bills: Using Criminal Law to Establish Permanent Extra-Constitutional Emergency Powers

Twelve changes to criminal law in the three Bills introduced in parliament in August 2023 will create a quantum leap in the power of the government to silence dissent and opposition and shut down public discourse, choking all channels that communicate conflicting news or views to the people.

Apple Alert: Threat Notifications Strike at Heart of Indian Democracy – 3 Articles
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Apple Alert: Threat Notifications Strike at Heart of Indian Democracy – 3 Articles

Apar Gupta, the founding director of Internet Freedom Foundation calls for full government disclosure regarding its spyware purchases and deployments. Also: Review of book by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud, “Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware”.

How State-Backed Hindutva Rhetoric Is Fuelling the Ethnic Cleansing of Uttarakhand
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How State-Backed Hindutva Rhetoric Is Fuelling the Ethnic Cleansing of Uttarakhand

India’s most populous hill state Uttarakhand is in unprecedented turmoil. It is the first State in India in which an influential and popular campaign for ethnic cleansing has gathered ominous momentum: a battle for the expulsion of all Muslims from the State.

History Is Calling Us! Unite in Struggle to Defend the Values of the Freedom Struggle
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History Is Calling Us! Unite in Struggle to Defend the Values of the Freedom Struggle

Why this call? People of India today face the onslaught on the basic values of the Constitution from a regime that is determined to impose a socio-political system of Hindutva chauvinism on the multicultural, multi-religious, multilingual society thus violating the constitutional commitment to equality of all citizens.