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NewsClick Founder Prabir Purkayastha To Be Released On Bail After Arrest Ruled Illegal

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Police charged Prabir and NewsClick with colluding with foreign powers to sabotage India on the basis of a New York Times “hit piece” published in August 2023 which targeted several other anti-war organizations in the US as well May 15, 2024 by Peoples Dispatch Prabir Purkayastha outside his home in February 2021 after the first raid by the Enforcement Directorate. Photo: ICF The Indian Supreme Court ordered the immediate release of author and journalist Prabir Purkayastha on Wednesday, May 15 terming his arrest by the Delhi Police in October last year, illegal. The Court questioned the haste with which police executed the NewsClick founder’s arrest, noting that they did not even follow the basic procedures. The court noted that, in complete violation of the principles of

Politicization Of Justice: Chief Justice Has The Right To Change The Composition Of Any SC Panel                                       

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Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkonoo The unfortunate politicization of our justice just took a giant step forward. Without explanation, at the 11th hour, the Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkonoo, replaced 3 of the justices she had empanelled to hear the appeal in "The Republic vs Dr. Stephen Opuni & 2 others". While the CJ, like a monarch, didn't offer any explanation, the AG, who is, on behalf the government, an interested party, has leapt to her defense, accusing those raising questions of peddling falsehoods. According to the AG, standing on article 157(3), the CJ has the right to change the composition of any SC panel, as long as the case has not been heard. Now, just in case you are wondering, I know

Global Infoanalytics A Credible Research Organisation – Kwesi Pratt Jnr. Asserts

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Managing editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr., has waded into the survey conducted by Global InfoAnalytics for the upcoming December 7 general elections and the outright rejection of the survey by the ruling New Patriotic Party. According to the veteran journalist, who is also the General Secretary of the Socialist Movement of Ghana, the rejection of the outcome of the polls by the NPP beggars belief because Global InfoAnalytics has a doubtless reputation for conducting credible polls with an almost exact predicted outcome playing out in recent elections. "Between the Bawumia campaign and Global InfoAnalytics, who should we trust?" he quizzed. Pratt further went ahead to list a litany of predictions made by the research organization in past elections, including the

West Africa Conjuncture: Senegal, 2024

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Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko greets his supporters as he attends the protest to demand the release of alleged political prisoners ahead of his court appearance on Thursday on libel charges, in Dakar, Senegal March 14, 2023. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra ABSTRACT Three West African countries namely, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and Ghana, would engage in democratic bourgeois elections in 2024. In Ghana and Guinea-Bissau, key presidential elections are scheduled to be held in December 2024 while Senegal’s presidential elections scheduled for February 2024 is on hold owing to the executive’s interference in the process[1]. There is no doubt as these three countries prepare to go to the polls, they have differing political and economic challenges. Some of the political challenges include police crackdown on protests and

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