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2002
2002
India Passes Tough Anti-Terror Law Measure Gives Police Broad Powers; Critics Fear Its Use Against Muslim Minority
27 March 2002
The Washington Post
By Rama Lakshmi
NEW DELHI, March 26 – The Indian Parliament passed a tough and controversial anti-terrorism bill today in a rare joint session of the body’s two houses, turning aside protests by opposition members that the bill undermines civil rights and could be used to target the country’s 140 million Muslims.
The law, championed in the raucous session by the Hindu nationalist government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, gives the police broad powers to detain and try terror suspects, intercept their telephone and Internet communications and clamp down on their funding. Authorities have been exercising such powers by decree since October and now will get them permanently.
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2001
Audit of Human Rights
3-9 November 2001
Economic and Political Weekly; Vol. XXXVI No. 44
by A. G. Noorani
Has the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) made a significant impact on the state of human rights in India? Is it at all relevant to the Kashmiri who has to bear the brunt of systematic custodial deaths, encounters, disappearances and other forms of brutal repression. The South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre has published a much-needed audit of the NHRC’s work.
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2001
Home Ministry hampering NHRC work, says Report
26 October 2001
Times News Network THE TIMES OF INDIA
By Akshaya Mukul
New Delhi: After eight years of operation the inherent weaknesses of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and its originating legislation are becoming increasingly evident, says the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre (SAHRDC) and its report “Judgement Reserved: The Case of the NHRC”, Finalized last
Month and submitted to the commission, the report is highly critical of the home ministry for “displaying intransigence…with regard to recommendations submitted by the NHRC.”
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