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2 Jun 2019 Mugilan Missing Case: Political Parties, Civil Rights Groups Demand Speedy Action People's Watch in Media Chennai

The environment activist had released a report and video on police highhandedness in Thoothukudi firing; CD-CID unable to trace him in spite of forming 17 special teams in Tamil Nadu. Political parties and civil rights organisations staged a...

#WhereIsMugilan, #HenriTiphagne, #MugilanMissing, #HRDMugilan, #Henri, #PeoplesWatch
2 Jun 2019 Mugilan’s family raises questions about CB-CID investigation People's Watch in Media Chennai

Ask why the probe agency did not interrogate police officials Rights activists have questioned why the CB-CID did not examine senior police officials, whose alleged complicity in the firing on anti-Sterlite protesters in Thoothukudi was exposed by Mugilan...

#Mugilan, #WhereIsMugilan, #PeoplesWatch, #HenriTiphagne
2 Jun 2019 Legislation to protect human rights defenders stressed People's Watch in Media Chennai

Advocates Henri Tiphagne and Lajapathy Roy explained the need for media persons to understand their role better in protecting human rights and their defenders at a workshop for journalists organised by Evidence, a non-governmental organisation, here on Sunday. ...

#LajapathyRoy, #HenriTiphagne, #WorkshopForJournalists, #Kathir, #Evidence
29 May 2019 Mugilan’s family raises questions about CB-CID investigation People's Watch in Media Madurai

Ask why the probe agency did not interrogate police officials Rights activists have questioned why the CB-CID did not examine senior police officials, whose alleged complicity in the firing on anti-Sterlite protesters in Thoothukudi was exposed by Mugilan...

#TheHindu, #PeoplesWatch, #ActivistMugilan, #HRD, #HRDMugilan, #HumanRightsDefenderMugilan
23 May 2019 A year on, anxiety, fear stalk survivors People's Watch in Media Madurai

Tuticorin: A year after 13 anti-Sterlite protesters in Tuticorin were killed in police firing, civil rights activists have accused the government of doing little other than providing Rs 20 lakh compensation and a bottom rung government job to the victims’...

#TheTimesofIndia, #TimesofIndia, #TOI, #PeoplesWatch, ##HenriTiphagne, #AYearAfterThoothukudiBurned
23 May 2019 Stop summoning protesters: HC to Thoothukudi police People's Watch in Media Madurai

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the Sub-Collector of Thoothukudi not to pass any final orders pursuant to the proceedings initiated against anti-Sterlite protesters under Sections 107 and 111 of the CrPC. As per...

#CrPC107, #Mohan, #ThoothukudiPoliceFiring, #PeoplesWatch, #HighCourt, #MaduraiBenchOfMadrasHighCourt
23 May 2019 Post trauma counselling sought for kin of Sterlite firing victims People's Watch in Media Madurai

Tuticorin: The state government, whose police fired at the protesters in Tuticorin killing 13 people one year ago, seems to believe that parameters of justice is providing Rs20 lakh compensation and a bottom rung government job to the victims’ kin. While...

#ThoothukudiPoliceFiring, #HenriTiphagne, #PeoplesWatch, #AYearAfterThoothukudiBurned, #TheTimesofIndia, #TimesofIndia, #TOI
23 May 2019 HC: Don’t pass any final orders in proceedings against agitators People's Watch in Media Madurai

Madurai: Observing that it is the fundamental right of the people to protest in a peaceful manner, the Madurai bench of the Madras high court has directed the sub-divisional magistrate/ sub-collector of Tuticorin not to pass any final orders in...

#TheTimesofIndia, #TimesofIndia, #PeoplesWatch, #Thoothukudi, #ThoothukudiPoliceFiring, #Mohan, #HighCourt, #CrPC107


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