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Politics Drives Assam’s Crackdown on Child Marriage ( The Diplomat )
On February 3, Assam’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government launched a crackdown against underage marriage in the state. It led to the...
Muslims
Solutions To Assam’s Child-Marriage Problem In Schools, Not In Mass Arrests Ordered By CM ( Artucke14 )
Morigaon, Assam: On a sunny winter morning on 7 February, Ambiya Khatun stood outside her mud house holding her four-month-old son on her hips. Dressed...
Muslims
Assam: Bengali-speaking Muslims most affected by Sonitpur eviction drive ( Muslim Mirror )
TEZPUR : The drive to evict “encroachers” from nearly 1,900 hectares of forest and revenue land in Assam’s Sonitpur district continued for the second...
Muslims
Assam: 2,500 Bengali Muslim families go homeless as govt launches demolition drive, two mosques among bulldozed ( Maktoob Media )
Authorities in Assam’s Sonitpur district on Tuesday launched a drive to evict over 2,500 families. Most of the persons living in the area are...
Christians
Assam: RSS-Affiliate Demands Removal of Christians From ST List ( The Wire )
Guwahati: Ahead of the assembly elections in Christian-majority Meghalaya and Nagaland, an RSS-backed organisation called Janajati Dharma-Sanskriti Suraksha Manch (JDSSM) has decided to intensify...
Weaponizing Citizenship
Detention centers can never be a legitimate state response to migration and no human being is illegal: Public statement ( Maktoob Media )
Collective Against Detention (CAD) and Right to Nationality and Citizenship Network (RNCN), two rights watchdogs, unequivocally demand an end to arbitrarily declaring people as...
Muslims
Foreigners’ Transit Camp In Assam Receives First Batch Of 68 Detainees ( NDTV )
Guwahati, Assam:
The first batch of 68 people declared foreigners by the Foreigners' Tribunal was moved to the newly built Assam's biggest detention centre, officially...
Weaponizing Citizenship
BJP wants delimitation, CAA, 1951 cut off date for foreigners: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma ( The Economic Times )
Guwahati: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the BJP wants to pursue a package where it wants delimitation of constituencies, implementation of...
Weaponizing Citizenship
Three years since anti-CAA protests: Law and lawlessness ( Indian Express )
It has been three years since the massive, country-wide protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA). While the peaceful protests were an exercise...