Topic: NIA

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.

The family members and friends of the human rights defenders arrested in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case under draconian UAPA have issued a statement...

After the death of renowned activist Father Stan Swamy who was arrested under draconian UAPA in the Elgar Parishad case last year, Swamy's lawyer Mihir Desai demanded a judicial inquiry into the matter.

Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist, Father Stan Swamy, arrested in the Elgaar Parishad case last year, has been put on ventilator after his...

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.

The four students Nazir Hussain (26), Zulfikar Ali Wazir (25), Aiaz Hussain (28) and Muzammil Hussain (25), were picked up from Thang village, around 40 kms from Kargil district, in a joint operation with a Central intelligence agency and local police on June 22 and after almost two days of questioning at SSP office in Kargil, they were brought to Delhi on transit remand on Thursday morning.