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Prime Time With Ravish Kumar: UAPA, NSA, PASA, NDPS, ये कानून हैं या फंसाने की बेड़ियां? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-tq5hn64v8 Nov 10, 2021

Prime Time With Ravish Kumar - November 10, 2021: अगर आप कुछ खास तरह की खबरों को निकाल कर उन्हें एक क्रम में रख कर देखेंगे, तो वह लकीर दिख जाएगी जिससे आपके नागरिक होने के अधिकार का दायरा, छोटा किया जा रहा है. इसे शिकंजा कसना कहते हैं. गर्दन तक हाथ पहुंच गया है, दबाया भी जा रहा है, रहमत इतनी है कि मारा नहीं जा रहा है.

UAPA Against Lawyers 'Govt. Hiding Own Incompetence by Silencing Us' | Tripura Violence  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQCqhfXge9Y  Nov 6, 2021

UAPA notices have been sent to over 60 people for their Twitter posts in connection with Tripura violence.

A day after a fact-finding team released a report which highlighted anti-Muslim violence in the state of Tripura, two advocates who were a part of the team and had authored the report, Ansar Indori, secretary of the National Confederation of Human Rights and Mukesh, who works for the Union for Civil Liberties, has been charged with Section 13 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).

Both lawyers have also been charged under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 120 (B), 153 (A), 153 (B), 469, 471, 503, 504, among others, which include charges of criminal conspiracy, promoting enmity between groups, forgery and provoking breach of peace.

The advocates were a part of a four-member fact-finding team that had visited the state on October 29-30 in order to document the tensions in the region following reports of anti-Muslim violence in the state. The report, titled ‘Humanity under attack in Tripura; #Muslim lives matter’, documented the vandalisation of at least 12 mosques, nine shops and three houses belonging to Muslim families.

Tripura Violence: UAPA Charges Levied Against Lawyers From Fact-Finding Team  https://thewire.in/communalism/tripura-violence-uapa-charges-levied-against-lawyers-from-fact-finding-team Two lawyers, Ansar Indori and Mukesh, have been booked by the West Agartala police after they authored and released the report 'Humanity under attack in Tripura; #Muslim lives matter'.

A day after a fact-finding team released a report which highlighted anti-Muslim violence in the state of Tripura, two advocates who were a part of the team and had authored the report, Ansar Indori, secretary of the National Confederation of Human Rights and Mukesh, who works for the Union for Civil Liberties, have been charged with Section 13 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). The report said that right wing extremist organisations such as the Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Hindu Jagaran Manch held protests and rallies after several Durga Puja pandals and temples in Bangladesh were vandalised on October 15, in a bid to evoke violence against the minority Muslim population of the state. The report also stated that, “During the rallies, Hindutva mobs raised slogans insulting Prophet Mohammad and copies of the Holy Quran were burnt by rioters while attacking mosques and Muslim houses.”  

Supreme Court To Hear Plea Of Journalist To Nix Tripura Anti-Terror Case https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGmTL6JdTgw 
Nov 11, 2021 The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a plea by journalist Shyam Meera Singh and two others that seeks to quash a Tripura Police FIR under controversial anti-terror law UAPA for social media posts - including Mr Singh's "Tripura is burning" tweet - made during violence in the state last month.

Tripura Violence: UAPA on SC lawyers, who went Agartala to find facts https://groundreport.in/tripura-violence-fact-finding-supreme-court-lawyers-facing-uapa-charges/ Wahid Bhat November 4, 2021

His report was released on Tuesday at the Press Club of India in Delhi. The team that released the report on Tuesday suggested that the BJP government in Tripura could have thwarted the pre-planned violence against Muslim minorities if it wanted, but it allegedly gave a free hand to the Hindu mob.

Fact finding report on violence

In a report prepared by an investigation team of Supreme Court lawyers and human rights organizations on Tripura violence, it has been found that Muslims were attacked at 51 places in Tripura and 12 mosques were vandalized and damaged.

PUCL Press Statement  05th November, 2021

The PUCL strongly condemns the Tripura Police for registering a FIR dated 03rd  November, 2021 under the UAPA and other draconian provision of the IPC against a team of  advocates from Delhi, the “Lawyers for Democracy”, for conducting a Fact Finding Enquiry into communal violence incidents in Tripura in mid-end October, 2021. It is clear that the police have invoked the draconian provisions of UAPA law only because of the findings of the FFT that the large scale violence which destroyed numerous homes, shops, mosques and other properties of Muslims in many towns in Tripura was the result of orchestrated violence unleashed by Hindu majoritarian groupslike the VHP and HJM, against minority Muslims with the tacit connivance and conscious abdication of their duties by the Tripura police.
What is most shocking is that the West Agartala Police Station has sent a notice u/s 41 A of the Criminal Procedure Code to Advocates Mukesh, National Co-Convener, AILAJ and member of PUCL- Delhi and Advocate Ansar Indori of the National Confederation of Human RightsOrganizations (NCHRO)imputing that it was their social media posts, statements and Report which were responsible for“promoting enmity between religious groups as well as provoking people of different religious communities to commit breach of peace”.

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