Foil Vedanta Victory for Polluted Zambian Farmers Suing Vedanta in UK Judges today threw out Vedanta’s appeal to the May 2016 High Court judgment allowing Zambian farmers to have their case against the company heard in the UK. The judgment adds further weight to precedents holding UK companies legally responsible for the actions of …
If all the accused are innocent, then who killed the Tsundur Dalits?
Duddu Prabhakar On August 6 of 1991, around 11 am in the morning the high caste mob of Reddy’s and Kapu’s from Tsundur, Valiveru, Modukuru and Munnangi Vari Palem, with the help of police pursued and hacked to death Dalits from Tsundur. After four days, 8 corpses (7 Malas, 1 Madiga) were recovered from …
Review Acquittal of Accused in Tsundur Massacre of Dalits
We Demand Government of India to take all the possible steps to review Judgment of clean acquittal of accused in Tsundur dalits massacre case and prefer an Appeal against this arbitrary Judgment Please read the text of the petition below and sign it at this Change.org page. ~ Text of the petition To The President …
‘The whole system is in their hands, including the judicial system’: Bojja Tharakam
Dalit Camera: Through Un-Touchable Eyes Dalit Camera spoke to veteran human rights lawyer Bojja Tharakam after the acquittal of all the accused in the Tsunduru massacre case in the Andhra Pradesh High Court on April 22, 2014. Very recently Bojja Tharakam, who is the Special Public Prosecutor in the case, had openly expressed lack …
Gender Justice with Section 377 – An Oxymoron
For my fellow comrades, friends, lovers, sisters and brothers (a not so open letter) Shaheen Ahmed It was biting cold in New Delhi in December last year. But this did not stop me or hundreds of other people, young and old alike, to hit the streets in protest. In protest against the brutal gangrape …