Ajmer, Jan 2011: Unable to walk, Dr Chishty is carried to the courtroom. Photo: TOI
In humanity’s name: Aman ki Asha has been campaigning for clemency towards cross-border prisoners – young boys who stray across by mistake or in search of ‘Bollywood’, fishermen who cross the maritime border, families who have committed minor transgressions, long-term prisoners incarcerated for years on either side, until their story is taken up by human rights activists and media…. See articles compiled at the Aman ki Asha website at the link ‘In humanity’s name‘. Four articles, including the one below, published today, available at this link.
A campaign is building up in India for the release of an elderly retired Pakistani professor detained for over 19 years
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