This is a personal account of medical practices and healthcare behind bars, which draws on direct experiences and narrations from fellow prisoners, accumulated during eleven years in custody. It touches on issues of the relationship of medical professionals with the torture of detenus, the anarchy of everyday prison medication, frailty and death among older inmates and the proposals and prospects for prison healthcare reform. It sees a need for systemic change, but the prognosis is not optimistic. Vernon Gonsalves writes.
NewsClick case in India: RSF and Guernica 37 Chambers call on the European Union to sanction Delhi police officers
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Guernica 37 Chambers call on the European Union to sanction four high-ranking officers of the Delhi police, responsible - directly or indirectly - for exactions against dozens of journalists working or having collaborated with the independent media NewsClick.
Was the trial judge who convicted G.N. Saibaba biased? We will never know, and that is part of the injustice
The injustice of a trial judge filling the gaps in the prosecution’s case (which relied on ‘evidence’ in the form of bananas, umbrellas and newspaper cuttings) with judicial overreach to chop ten years off Professor G.N. Saibaba’s life. Nihalsing B. Rathod writes.
Hacker-for-hire gang with links to Pune police planted emails on the computers of Bhima Koregaon accused: new book
The mercenary hacker gang, headquartered in India, remotely implanted evidence, according to LSE professor’s book; cites cybersecurity researchers to claim gang’s connection to a Pune police officer.
Acquittal Of Prof G N Saibaba & 5 Others Is A Lesson In The Importance of Criminal Procedure In Securing Personal Liberty
Of 293 pages in the 5 March 2024 Bombay High Court judgement acquitting G N Saibaba of terrorism charges, almost 240 examine a litany of procedural non-compliances in the prosecution case. Without adherence to legal procedure, especially when life and liberty are at stake, nothing stands in the way of the police entering homes at night, rummaging through belongings & taking us away without anyone ever knowing.
‘It Is Only by Chance That I Came Out of Prison Alive’: G.N. Saibaba
'I can’t go to the toilet, I can’t take a bath without support, and I lived in jail without any relief for so long,' the former Delhi University professor said in his first press briefing since his release from Nagpur Central jail.
Saibaba Acquittal: From Lack of Sanction to Dodgy Evidence, High Court Judgment Tears Into State's Case
'The prosecution has failed to establish the seizure of incriminating material from the house search of G.N. Saibaba," the judges said. "The prosecution has also failed to prove the electronic evidence in terms of the provisions of the Indian Evidence Act, and the Information Technology Act."
Bombay High Court Acquits GN Saibaba & 5 Others In Alleged Maoist Links Case
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on Tuesday set aside the conviction of former Delhi University Professor GN Saibaba and five others in an alleged Maoist-links case under the UAPA. Wheelchair-bound GN Saibaba and his co-accused have been under custody since their arrest in 2014 on charges of having links with Maoist organizations and waging war against India.
Booked under UAPA for inciting Haldwani mob. But CCTV footage and BJP leader reveal another story
On February 8, when violence broke out in the Uttarakhand town, Abdul Malik was in and around Delhi, meeting politicians and a lawyer, three people told Scroll.
Delhi Court Denies Statutory Bail to Sharjeel Imam
Despite finding no direct incitement to violence or murder in his speeches against the CAA, the court claimed that his rhetoric had a significant mobilising effect and potentially played a role in the outbreak of the February 2020 riots.
Umar Khalid Withdraws Bail Petition In Supreme Court, To Seek Bail From Trial Court Afresh
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (February 14) dismissed as withdrawn the petition filed former JNU scholar and activist Umar Khalid's bail plea in connection with the Delhi riots larger conspiracy case. Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal, for Khalid, submitted that the petition is being withdrawn in view of "change in circumstances" and to seek bail afresh before the trial court.
Given Electric Shocks, Tortured To Implicate Political Leaders: Parliament Security Breach Accused Tell Delhi Court
A Delhi Court has been informed that the accused persons arrested in the UAPA case registered over the security breach in Parliament in December last year, were tortured, forced to sign various blank papers and were given electric shocks to confess the alleged crime and their association with political parties.
No Convictions, 'No Support From Activists' as Sharjeel Imam Spends Four Years in Jail
The IIT-graduate-turned-JNU-scholar's brother Muzammil Imam said to The Wire that Sharjeel has not received support from civil society groups and prominent political activists. 'They choose people who they want to support and who they don't want to support.'
7 journalists behind bars in India, 5 charged under UAPA: CPJ
A total of 320 journalists across the world are behind bars, and seven of these mediapersons are incarcerated in India, as per the 2023 prison census report by the Committee to Protect Journalists.