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14 arrested under UAPA, IT Act in Assam over supporting Taliban on social media
At least fourteen people were arrested from across Assam for alleged social media posts supporting the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, police said on Saturday.
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Assam detention centres for ‘foreigners’ renamed ‘transit camps’
A notification issued by the Assam government on Tuesday says the nomenclature of the "Detention centre is changed to Transit Camp for detention purpose”.
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Home minister has ‘failed’ country: Rahul Gandhi on Assam-Mizoram border violence
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday attacked Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the violence at the Assam-Mizoram border, alleging that Shah has "failed" the country by "sowing hatred and distrust" into the lives of people and India is now reaping its "dreadful consequences".
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Extrajudicial killings on the rise in Assam
Arif Jwadder, a lawyer from Assam has moved the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) seeking an inquiry into all extrajudicial killings that have taken place in the state since May.
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SC orders release of Manipur activist facing NSA over FB post saying ‘cow dung won’t cure Covid’
Supreme Court has on Monday ordered release of Manipur based political activist Erendro Leichombam, who was detained under the draconian National Security Act over a Facebook post that cow dung or cow urine will not cure COVID-19.
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After outrage, Assam govt removes photo of Muslim family with foreigner tag from website
Following the criticisms from family, photographer and Muslim community leaders, the photograph of a riot victim Muslim family clicked in 2012, which was used as a representative image on a page on Foreigners’ Tribunals (FTs) on an Assam government website, has been removed.
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Assam: Riot victim Muslim family’s photo appears on govt website with ‘foreigner’ tag
On Saturday, the All Assam Minority Students’ Union (AAMSU) submitted a memorandum to the Chief Secretary of Assam asking for the removal of a photograph of a Muslim family featured on the website of the Assam government’s Home Political Department, on a page about ‘Foreigners' Tribunals'.
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Tripura lynching: Another Muslim man’s body found after confession of accused
The death toll in the Hindu mob lynching incident in Tripura's Khowai district on 20 June has risen to four with the recovery of the body of a missing Muslim youth.
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Discharged in all UAPA cases, Akhil Gogoi to walk out from jail after 550 days
A National Investigation Agency court Thursday discharged Assam MLA and Raijor Dal president Akhil Gogoi in the only pending UAPA and sedition case against him.
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“My father died hearing allegations against me:” Tripura Muslim man acquitted after 4 years in jail in terror case
A Tripura Muslim man, Habib Mia, now 41, was acquitted by a National Investigation Agency (NIA) special court last week after four years of imprisonment in the 2005 Indian Institute of Science (IISc) blast case in Bengaluru under draconian UAPA.
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Tripura: CPIM MLA injured in BJP attack, Former CM says state’s law and order collapsed
Senior politician and Communist Party of India (Marxist) MLA, Sudhan Das, was attacked by Bharatiya Janata Party workers in the Rajnagar area in Tripura’s South district on Sunday.
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Father of Manipur activist booked under NSA for criticising BJP, moves SC
The father of Erendro Leichombam, an activist from Manipur, on Monday moved the Supreme Court against his detention under the National Security Act.
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