February 25, 2023 7:22 am
Amnesty International India and Indians for Amnesty International Trust had approached the HC over the ED letter. The case was disposed of on Friday.
April 13, 2022 7:52 am
The CBI on Tuesday told the court that Patel was involved in multiple cases even as Patel's lawyers maintained that there was nothing to suggest that he was a “flight risk”. “Am I some Nirav Modi or Vijay Mallya?” the lawyers submitted on Patel's behalf.
February 16, 2021 10:48 pm
The move comes months after the NGO announced the closure of its operations in India following the freezing of its bank accounts by the ED as part of a probe into a 2018 case.
October 02, 2020 4:52 am
Earlier on Thursday, a senior US State Department official told journalists in Washington DC that Amnesty International shutting down its operations in India, after its bank accounts were frozen, “has received attention at the highest levels” in the US government.
October 01, 2020 4:44 am
While the British government, like the EU, raised the issue through diplomatic channels, the USCIRF —a consultative body to the US Congress — expressed concern at the reports.
September 30, 2020 2:24 am
Amnesty called the freezing of accounts “akin to freezing dissent” and said the action was “the latest in the incessant witch-hunt of human rights organizations”, leaving them unable to carry on with campaign and research work in India.
September 24, 2020 2:17 am
The complaint was filed by Purnesh Modi, who represents Surat City (West) in Gujarat Assembly, in July this year. Purnesh is also president of the Samast Gujarati Modhvanik Samaj.





