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  India: Compensation to those wrongly booked and illegally arrested is welcome | Text of statement by PUCL, 7 Aug 2020

  7 August

  The PUCL welcomes the decision of the NHRC against the State of Chhattisgarh on its complaint number 667/33/20/2016 filed in 2016, which directs the Government of Chhattisgarh to pay compensation of Rs. one lakh each, to 13 members of two fact-finding teams, who were maliciously prosecuted under various false and fabricated FIRs by the Chhattisgarh police.

• Video: A Nuclear Arms Race is Dangerous - The Nucear Weapons Era must End | ICRC

  6 August

  There are almost 14,000 nuclear bombs worldwide. Thousands ready to launch anytime, more powerful than those which devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

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  India: NHRC Orders Compensation for Human Rights Defenders Who Faced False Charges and Arrests by the Chhattisgarh Police | Text of Press Release by Nandini Sundar and others (August 6, 2020)

  6 August

  NHRC orders compensations to the six persons namely Prof Nandini Sundar, Ms. Archana Prasad, Shri Vineet Tiwari, Shri Sanjay Parate, Ms. Manju and Shri Mangla Ram Karma, whose human rights were gravely violated by the Chhattisgarh police.

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  India: PM Narendra Modi’s Remarks at Ayodhya Reflect Narrow Communal Agenda - Statement by Communist MP Binoy Viswam | 5 August 2020

  5 August

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks today at the events in Ayodhya are condemnable for the elected leader of a democratic and secular country like India. The Prime Minister has forgotten that he is the leader of the entire nation and not only of those who follow the RSS-BJP ideology. The tumultuous history of Ayodhya and its impact on the secular fabric of India warranted that the Prime Minister exercise restraint and maturity over the event today. Instead, the Prime Minister has chosen to gain political currency via his remarks and misused the platform to further his own communal agenda. In his speech, the Prime Minister has equated the pursuit of the Ram Mandir with the struggle for India’s independence and glorified acts that forever ruptured the secular fabric of India.

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  India: Monument of Violations - ‘Ayodhya-Ram Mandir Inauguration’: A Frontal Attack on our Constitutional Democracy Led by the Prime Minister | Statement by NAPM, 5 Aug 2020

  5 August

  5th Aug, 2020: National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) expresses deep anguish at the initiation of the construction of the Ram Temple at Ayodhya, through the Bhumi Pujan ceremony which culminated in the laying of the foundation stone today. The participation of none less than the Prime Minister, the Uttar Pradesh administration and its Chief Minister in the ceremony, even though these offices are constitutionally mandated to remain secular, is yet another blow against our constitutional principles.

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