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IAMC Official Channel Over the last several weeks India’s Supreme Court has passed at least three rulings that not only severely restrict civil and political liberties but also greenlight the abuse of anti-terror and sedition laws against human rights defenders, journalists, and even politicians that are in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.
Prashant Bhushan, a veteran lawyer in New Delhi and a leading human rights defender, who has faced relentless attacks from Hindu supremacists as well as from the top judiciary whose values and performance he has courageously questioned for decades.
Himanshu Kumar, a Renowned Gandhian activist who was in July 2022 falsely accused by Supreme Court judges of forging evidence that the police had carried out torture and killings of the adivasis (indigenous people) in Chhattisgarh state. Kumar has refused to pay a fine of Indian Rupees 500,000 the court has imposed and is ready to go to prison.
Mihir Desai, veteran lawyer in Mumbai who has long defended human rights defenders and members of marginalized communities such as Muslims and Dalits falsely charged with crimes. He was also the lawyer for Prisoner of Conscience Teesta Setalvad who was accused, without evidence, by the Supreme Court of forging evidence to prove that Modi was complicit in the anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002