Ashfaque EJ

Out of the 835 cases registered against activists and politicians who protested Citizenship (Amendment) Act and National Register of Citizens in the state, the government has only withdrawn two cases, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said while replying to an Opposition MLA’s query in the legislative assembly. 

What started as a neighbourhood dispute in Attappady, became intense with interference of police and NGO cum land mafia. Weeks later legislative assembly brought up the issue, only to give a clean chit to police.

translated as People's Human Rights Front. In 2015, he got arrested by the then Congress-led govt in Kerala under a UAPA case and was later released on bail. The case is still going on in Ernakulam sessions court. On May first week, Jaison got a call from The Wire office. They informed him that his phone number was among the leaked database of phone numbers listed as potential targets in an Israeli spyware Pegasus attack, reportedly commissioned by the Indian government. They told him that his phone might be affected by Pegasus, a malware that allows a hacker to access and control a phone.

Protesting the "custodial death" of the Jesuit priest and human rights activist Father Stan Swamy, the Bhima Koregaon accused prisoners who were lodged in Taloja jail in Maharashtra have announced to sit on a one-day hunger strike on Wednesday. Meanwhile, alleged Maoist leader Roopesh, an undertrial prisoner in Viyyur jail in Kerala, have observed a day-long hunger strike on Wednesday protesting the same.

Jesuit priests, activists, friends, journalists, and family of Father Stan Swamy have organised a condolence meeting for the "people's priest who became the first martyr of BK-16 prisoners" after he succumbed to death following a year-long imprisonment as an under-trial prisoner under the draconian UAPA in the Elgaar Parishad case.

Despite the 600 days long protest started in 29, October 2019, neither the demand to reconstruct the Kochi-Chellanam coast nor the installation of groynes were implemented by the ruling government