Land, democratic protests and 'unlawful' activities: Recovering democratic protest in Chhattisgarh

It is necessary to interrogate notions of unlawful activities and public security, which enable the State to proscribe organisations and mobilisations that call upon the State to uphold its own legal obligations under domestic and international law, writes Radhika Chitkara.
Land, democratic protests and 'unlawful' activities: Recovering democratic protest in Chhattisgarh
Radhika Chitkara

Radhika Chitkara is an assistant professor (law) at NLSIU, Bangalore, where she teaches criminal law and is the founder-instructor of the Human Rights Lawyering Clinic. She is pursuing her PhD at NLSIU on powers and infrastructure of counter-terror policing, where she is the Dr N.R. Madhav Menon Doctoral Scholar. She has over twelve years of experience as a human rights practitioner as part of the civil liberties, land and forest rights, and women's rights movements in India. Radhika obtained her BA.LL.B (Hons.) from NLSIU in 2013, and LLM (Concentration in International Human Rights Law) from Harvard Law School in 2017.

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