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Amjad Bin Sharaf, Midhun Mohan Jailed activist Rona Wilson made a video call home on Thursday morning to pay last respect to his father, Wilson...

The father of Rona Wilson-  a noted prison-rights activist who is in jail under draconian UAPA in Elgar Parishad case- has died Wednesday night.

The signatories condemned the continued incarceration of the country's prominent human rights defenders.

Every year on 14th August, friends turned Hindutva activists would wish me “azaadi”. I know it has become normalised for Indian Muslims. It is one of the ways that the Hindutva brigade and like-minded citizens mock Indian Muslims and want to make us realise that we should be on the other side on the Indo-Pak border, that we don’t belong here. This year was no different. Now I have stopped replying to these kinds of slurs. I have stopped proving myself “Indian” to them. I’ve just stopped engaging on this issue. 

On Wednesday, the vocal young leader Umar Khalid turned 34 and multiple charges of a million pages are filed against him.

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.