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Feature: “Killed for Muslim identity”: Weeks after custodial deaths of 4 men case makes no progress

Zenaira Bakhsh About two weeks after the mysterious deaths of four Muslim men in judicial custody at the Baruipur Central Correctional Home, South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, their families still await answers to what actually happened in those ten days. All these days later, the postmortem reports of Abdul …

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Feature: Eyewitness accounts of anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat on Ram Navami

Neha Dabhade & Hozefa Ujjaini Against the backdrop of anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat’s Himmatnagar and Khambhat in April this year, a fact-finding team consisting of Neha Dabhade, Deputy Director at Centre for Study of Society and Secularism and Hozefa Ujjaini, social activist and Director of Buniyaad visited Khambhat and Himmatnagar …

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Feature: Another Kashmiri journalist gets banned from travelling abroad

Zenaira Bakhsh Days after barring Pulitzer-winning Kashmiri photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo from travelling abroad, another Kashmiri journalist, Aakash Hassan was barred from boarding his flight to Colombo, Sri Lanka. After reaching the airport at about 3:30 pm on Tuesday afternoon, Hassan collected his boarding pass. While heading toward immigration, his …

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Feature: Jailed human rights activist Khalid Saifi’s health deteriorating, wife seeks quick help

Zenaira Bakhsh On Saturday evening, Nargis Saifi received a five-minute-long distressed call from her husband. With a trembling voice, Khalid Saifi informed her that his condition inside the jail was worsening. Khalid was calling her nearly four days after his health condition had deteriorated. For the past four days, his …

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Feature: BJP-led Jammu admin renames Muslim localities

MUBASHAR NAIK In June, Jammu Municipal Corporation passed a resolution to rename Sheikh Nagar in Jammu to be called Shiv Nagar, and Amphalla Chowk could be renamed Hanuman Chowk. The move has been criticized by many people including Opposition leaders. The resolution was moved by Sharda Kumari, a Bharatiya Janata …

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Feature: Eid-ul Adha in Kashmir: Joy and sorrow

Eidgah also hosts the largest cattle market in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir where hundreds of thousands of animals are bought and sold. Khan Waqas and Basit Parray In Jammu and Kahmir, Eidgah are also hosts to the largest cattle market. At the entrance of the large, open-air …

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Feature: “Houses will soon be bulldozed”: Dalits in UP villages in constant fear

Waquar Hasan Kalawati, a widow mother of three children, is worried for her home and three children for the last some weeks. Weeks ago, a senior official from Chitrakoot Karvi’s Nagarpalika threatened to run bulldozers on the houses of her colony if they don’t vacate the area. She was distressed …

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