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  India: Stop harassment of Lawyers Collective and repeal Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act - Text of Statement by International Commission of Jurists

  12 July

  The ICJ today condemned the raids on 11 July by India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on the homes and offices of Anand Grover and Indira Jaising, two lawyers prominent for frequently challenging the Indian government’s failures to respect and promote the rights of all people in India. Grover and Jaising are both Supreme Court lawyers and co-founders of the Lawyers Collective, a non-governmental organization.

• Serious Irregularities in the Conduct of General Elections, 2019 - Letter to the Election Commission of India from former State officials

  3 July

  We are a group of former civil servants that takes up, from time to time, matters of exceptional national interest, seeking to remind our cherished democratic institutions of their responsibility to uphold the lofty ideals of the Constitution. We write to you today to draw your attention to the several very troubling and still unexplained issues pertaining to the conduct of the General Elections, 2019, by the Election Commission of India (ECI).

• India: Submission by Khedut Ekta Manch to the High Court appointed committee on Limestone mining in Bhavnagar

  27 June

  A representation and a written and oral submission were made to the High Court appointed Committee which is inquiring into the issues of limestone mining and its impact on agriculture in Bhavnagar district by Shri Sagar Rabari of Khedut Ekta Manch- Gujarat. 25 June 2019

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  India: PUCL Statement Against lodging of FIR against Lawyers Collective & Senior Advocate Anand Grover

  by Peoples Union for Civil Liberties, 21 June

  People’s Union for Civil Liberties is shocked at the lodging of an FIR against the Lawyers Collective, its President and senior lawyer, Anand Grover and other office bearers by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). We condemn this vindictive and utterly unjustified act against this well known human rights and legal aid organization with a long history of fighting for the rights of ordinary people. PUCL deplores this undisguised attempt to intimidate and silence Mr Grover, as well as legal luminary and co-founder of Lawyers Collective, Ms Indira Jaising, and office bearers of the organization.

• India 2019 Parliamentary Poll Outcome: Drivers, Consequences - An Exploration

  by Sukla Sen, 17 June

  Modi 2.0 very much presents us with the looming threat of the dismantling of the "India" - embodying the values of "democracy", "pluralism" and "egalitarianism", that had been wrought out in the crucible of the epic freedom struggle and, in the process, finally emerged on the 15th August 1947 - in pursuance of a project to supplant it with a "Hindu Rashtra" (Hindu nation state) - by mobilising the Hindus of India as "Hindus", drowning out all other identities linked to language, culture, gender, caste, class etc., constantly stoking hatred and violence against the constructed inimical "others".

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