08.10.2007 - Source: World Organisation Against Torture

West Bengal: Young man reportedly tortured by police while in detention ("Torture while in police custody [IND 081007]") [ID 21354]

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10.08.2007 - Source: World Organisation Against Torture

Fear of extrajudicial killing; security forces reportedly have allegedly assaulted villagers with sticks ("Fear of extrajudicial killing and forced disappearance [IND 100807]") [ID 21014]

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05.08.2007 - Source: Guardian

West Bengal: 7,000 refugees, families who fled originally in 1947, still live in the Coopers Camp ("Forgotten refugees wait for justice") [ID 21004]

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27.06.2007 - Source: BBC News

Maoist rebels in India burn down a railway station on the second day of protests against the government ("Maoists set fire to India station") [ID 20873]

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06.03.2007 - Source: US Department of State

Election of State Governments ("Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2006") [ID 19868]

"Citizens elected state governments at regular intervals, except in states under president's rule. During the year, relatively peaceful elections took place in the states of Assam, Bihar, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and in the Union Territory of Puducherry, although some election-related violence occurred. According to press reports, 14 people were killed and 36 injured in Bihar, and in April insurgents killed one person and injured 32 in Jammu and Kashmir. The press reported that despite the violence, voter turnout was the highest in 16 years and that the polls were generally free and fair. The Tamil Nadu and Kerala elections led to peaceful transitions of power to opposition parties."

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14.12.2006 - Source: BBC News

Strike called by the biggest trade unions shuts down 2 communist-ruled states ("Strike shuts down Indian states") [ID 18115]

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06.12.2006 - Source: Asian Centre for Human Rights

Forcible and illegal acquisition of agricultural lands, December 2006 events in West Bengal ("Atrocities at Singur, India: A matter of rights of the dispossessed") [ID 18941]

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12.05.2006 - Source: BBC News

Indian MP jailed over 1982 rape ("Indian MP jailed over 1982 rape") [ID 15460]

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12.09.2005 - Source: BBC News

West Bengal: Leading Bengali poet ordered to stand trial on charges of defiling Hindu goddess ("Trial of poet for 'defiling idol'") [#36460],  [ID 7699]

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08.11.2004 - Source: BBC News

West Bengal: nearly 200 illegal migrants from Bangladesh prevented from going home by Bangladeshi border police ("'Bengalis stranded' along border") [#26841],  [ID 7700]

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