Matt Blythe
“This summer I worked [with Ravi Nair, the Executive Director] at South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre (SAHRDC), an organization in the southern part of Delhi that, as the name would suggest, documents human rights abuses by the government of India. I had two ongoing projects. The first project involved reviewing opinions issued by India courts dealing with preventive detention under the National Security Act (NSA). My research involved cataloging the most common uses of the NSA, and the most common challenges to it in court. For my second project I worked on a detailed history of the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA), an anti-terrorism law that was in effect from 1985 to 1995. This act led the Indian government towards a more authoritarian application of its detention laws.
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