Academics stand in solidarity with Afreen Fatima and call on UN Special Rapporteurs on Human Rights and Housing to condemn the police demolition of her home and demand her safety and legal redress for the violation of her rights.

Indigenous rights researcher and activist Jerome Kujur and Isha Savani from InSAF India reflect on the longstanding nonviolent Netarhaat movement against a military firing range on their lands.

Civil society organisations around the world and Indian diaspora groups have issued a joint letter to the Chief Justice of India expressing grave concern for the health of incarcerated English professor and social justice activist G.N. Saibaba, and call for medical bail and immediate treatment in the hospital.

In an article for Jacobin Magazine, P.M. Tony and Lotika Singha look at the Bagaicha social justice movement that radical Jesuit priest Stan Swamy helped to shape in Jharkhand, India. The article also examines their methods of research and analysis. Read the full article here.

poster by rightwing student bodies in Kerala cautioning against ‘anti-Indianism’ in the name of academic freedom