Topic: UAPA
Anti-CAA speech: Delhi Court slaps sedition, UAPA against Sharjeel Imam
A Delhi court on Monday framed fresh charges, including sedition and the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), against student leader Sharjeel Imam in relation to his speeches against CAA at Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia.
14 years after arrest, Prashant Rahi acquitted in UAPA case
After arrested in 2007 and was given bail in 2011, rights activist and former journalist Prashant Rahi and three others who were accused of being Maoists, were acquitted by court in Uttarakhand on Friday.
Saibaba tests positive for COVID in jail, wife says his ‘ability to survive slowly dwindling’
Former Delhi University professor and human rights defender G.N. Saibaba, who is serving a life term in the Nagpur Central Prison for alleged links with Maoists, has tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time during the pandemic.
Release Khurram Parvez: UN’s second appeal to India in three weeks
The United Nations on Wednesday said that the Narendra Modi government was targeting Kashmir's prominent human rights defender Khurram Parvez for speaking about rights violations.
Kashmiri mother dies without meeting her jailed son
Muneera's son, Aijaz Ahmad Naik is languishing in jail since May 6, 2019, for "harbouring militants". The mother's desperate attempt to see her son was in vain as she breathed her last on 11 December.
UAPA case against Siddique Kappan and seven Muslim men shifted to NIA court in Lucknow
A UP court in Mathura on 13 December, transferred the case registered against Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan and seven others under draconian Sedition and UAPA in the alleged Hathras conspiracy case to a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Lucknow.
