Ravi Nair

This Republic Day, this article, the first in the series related to the illegal detention of foreigners in Assam, examines domestic and global laws allowing such unfettered powers to governments.

India’s refusal to accept individual complaints under the ICCPR leaves political prisoners without international recourse, unless civil society chooses to act.

In the second part of this series, we question the proportionality of detention given the low likelihood of deportations

The recent arrest of two nuns in Chhattisgarh under anti-conversion and NIA laws reveals the fictional limits of the Indian State’s persecution of religious freedom, all at the cost of due process.

NHRC's radio silence on the absence of express definition of torture in Indian law and jurisprudence is deafening.

Since the Armed Forces Special Powers Act came into force in Jammu and Kashmir in 1990, the Indian government has not granted permission to prosecute any security force personnel in civilian courts.