India: Aijaz Ahmed Mirza recounts his time in prison

Aijaz Ahmed Mirza

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India to debate lengthy detention of terror suspects, especially Muslims

A bullet is lodged in the frame of a shattered bus window outside Jama Masjid in New Delhi on September 19th, 2010. A charge sheet was issued against suspected Indian Mujahideen member Fasih Mahmood for his alleged role in the attack, but some politicians are concerned he's being targeted because he is Muslim. [Manpreet Romana/AFP]

Some politicians are voicing their concerns that Muslims are perhaps being unfairly targeted for arrest and detention when India is attacked by terrorists. - By Udayan Namboodiri, Khabar South Asia A bullet is lodged in the frame of a shattered bus window outside Jama Masjid in New Delhi on September 19th, 2010. A charge sheet was […]

India: Bail to scientist in alleged ‘terror’ case and two Muslim youths abducted by police in Hyderabad

DRDO scientist

Court grants bail to DRDO scientist in terror case (Newzfirst) – By Newzfirst Correspondent Bangalore – The National Investigation Agency (NIA) special court on Thursday ordered the release of another youth who was arrested last year on terror related charges, after granting him statutory bail for failure to file a charge-sheet within 180 days of […]

Out of India’s gulag: Muthi-ur-Rahman Siddiqui and Syed Yusuf Nalaband

Journalist Muthi-ur-Rahman Siddiqui addressing the media along with his family at Press Club of Bangalore, after releasing from Parappana Agrahara Central Jail on 26,02,2012. Photo: V Sreenivasa Murthy

Muthi-ur-Rahman terms his arrest as ‘kidnap’; accuses police of harbouring ‘institutional bias’ against Muslims (Coastal Digest) – By CoastalDigest.com Bangalore, Feb 27: Terming his arrest by Crime Branch of the Bangalore Police, as kidnap, journalist Muthi-ur-Rahman Siddiqui said that there existed an institutional bias against people belonging to the Muslim community in the state apparatus and […]

Mohammad Shamir: Karnataka’s Quantum Qaidi

Shamir's mother and wife

Accused No 24 of the 2008 Bangalore Blasts case exists in two places at the same time. Lodged in prison, he is ‘absconding’ as well – By Shahina KK, OPEN Magazine Mohammad Shamir, A 32-year- old originally from Kannur district in Kerala, finds himself in legal limbo. The 24th accused in the 2008 Bangalore Blasts case, he […]

India: C.B.I.’s Evil Designs against 1993 Bombay Bomb Blast Accused: Mohammed Sultan Sayyed

[The following report was sent to us by Mohammed Sultan Sayyed, a  former customs superintendent, convicted for 7 years in the 1993 Bombay Bomb Blast case. He was sentenced for his 'failure' to seize the contraband explosive, said to have landed about 200 kms from his place of posting.] – By Mohammed Sultan Sayyed The Central Bureau of Investigation of India […]

India: Investigating Acts of Terror: Adopting Unbiased Approach

Samjhauta-Express

- By Ram Puniyani Hidden in the back pages of some major dailies, there was news that the third Samjhauta bomber was held in MP (16, Dec 2012). National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Rajender Choudhary, near Ujjain in MP. He has been named as one of the bombers in the supplementary charge sheet submitted by […]

India: HC issues notice to Police over petition filed by Terror accused

- By Tariq Abdul Muhaimin Almost 4 months after 14 youths were arrested from different locations in Karnataka on charges of a terror plot and alleged links with banned terror outfits, the case seems to have come back to haunt the Bangalore Central Crime Branch (CCB) as the Karnataka High Court (HC) issued a notice […]

India: The war on terror & the collateral damage. 33 innocent lives destroyed

- By Tehelka Over 10 years in jail. For a crime they did not commit. Baba Umar on the Muslims whose lives became hell in false terror cases ON 31 July 2001, Syed Wasif Haider’s life changed, going from the humdrum to the hunted in the course of one long night. The plainclothes policemen, who came knocking at […]

India: Fasih Mahmood’s wife gives birth to a girl

- By The Indian Express The wife of Fasih Mehmood, the 28-year-old engineer deported from Saudi Arabia and held by Indian authorities since October 22 this year, has given birth to a daughter. Nikhat Parveen, 22, had been pregnant when Fasih was picked up from their home in Saudi Arabia. The mother and daughter, who are doing […]

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