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'Courts can hold sedition trials if accused has no objection': Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court has ruled that trials under the sedition law, Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, can proceed if the accused agrees. T...
Jaishankar concludes Trinidad visit; highlights cultural links, development partnershipsExternal Affairs Minister S Jaishankar concluded his visit to Trinidad and Tobago. He met members of the Indian community, emphasizing stro...
Book of the Day: On Earth As It Is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia — A stark portrait of punishment and the fragility of humanityBook of the Day: On Earth As It Is Beneath stands as a stark, disciplined exploration of power and vulnerability. It does not seek to enter...
Foreign labs found Alexei Navalny poisoned, alleges widowNavalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic, died in February 2024 at age 47 while serving a 19-year sentence in an Arctic pe...
Navalny's spokeswoman says Russian authorities give mother 3-hour ultimatum over burialNavalny, the best-known political opponent of President Vladimir Putin, died suddenly a week ago in the Arctic penal colony where he had be...
UK sanctions heads of Arctic penal colony where Alexei Navalny diedWestern leaders have expressed outrage at the news from Russian authorities that Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent domesti...
Navalny's mother appeals to Putin to release her son's body so she can bury him with dignityLyudmila Navalnaya, the mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, appealed to President Vladimir Putin to release her son's body ...
White House promises 'major sanctions' on Russia in response to Alexei Navalny's deathThe White House says it is preparing additional "major sanctions" on Russia in response to opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death in an A...
Alexei Navalny is dead, spokeswoman confirmsAlexei Navalny, a 47-year-old former lawyer, died after falling unconscious and falling unconscious at the "Polar Wolf" Arctic penal colony...
Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny's team confirms his deathAlexei Navalny's spokesperson confirmed his death on Saturday, alleging he was "murdered," although the location of his body remains unknow...
Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dead, says prison serviceThe Federal Penitentiary Service of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District reported that Alexei Navalny, a prominent Russian opposition lead...
Russia's Navalny jokes about 'naked party' from prisonNavalny appeared by video link from the "Polar Wolf" colonyto which he was transferred last month from a prison inMelekhovo, east of Moscow...
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he's 'fine' after transfer to Arctic penal colonyRussian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has said that he is "fine" after a "pretty exhausting" 20-day transfer from his prison near Moscow...
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny tracked down in 'Polar Wolf' prisonNavalny's allies, who had been preparing for his expected transfer to a "special regime" colony, the harshest grade in Russia's prison syst...
SC to hear on Sep 12 pleas challenging validity of colonial-era sedition lawThe law on sedition, which provides for a maximum jail term of life under section 124A of the IPC for creating "disaffection towards the go...
View: India’s criminal justice system needs real decolonising, and must go beyond mere textual changesThe historical roots of IPC unveil a narrative of colonial imposition. Macaulay's presumption of Western legal (and civilisational) superio...
Kremlin critic Navalny convicted of extremism and sentenced to 19 years in prisonRussian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been convicted of extremism and sentenced to 19 years in prison, with the new charges relating...
Inside the penal colonies: A glimpse at life for political prisoners swept up in Russia's crackdowns"Guess who is the champion of listening to Putin's speeches? Who listens to them for hours and falls asleep to them?" Navalny said recently...
Brittney Griner's legal team claims she was moved to Russian penal colonyBrittney Griner, an American basketball player now detained, has reportedly been moved to a Russian correctional colony, according to her l...
Russian court sentences US basketball star to nine years in jailGriner will spend a "total of nine years" in a Russian penal colony", judge Anna Sotnikova told the court, adding that the 31-year-old athl...