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Runs India's document clinics and tribunal and eviction cases, gives emergency lawyer referrals for Uyghurs and Rohingya facing deportation, and refers survivors to the UN mechanisms and trusted documentation groups. It runs no witness line of its own and keeps its data minimal and encrypted.
Before you start
- We do not take your story. This site runs no witness line and asks for nothing about you. Contact the services below directly.
- Facing deportation now? Go to the services marked Takes emergency calls — and contact UNHCR in the country you are in.
- Giving evidence? Use the UN mechanisms' own secure channels, from a device and account that are safe for you.
- In immediate danger, call your local emergency number first.
Emergency lawyers for Uyghurs and Rohingya facing deportation
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India: document clinics, tribunal and eviction cases
India (Assam)
Assam State Legal Services Authority (ASLSA)
Assam's state authority for free legal aid to eligible people, including the poor, women and other weaker sections.
Contact: Gauhati High Court Old Block, First floor, Guwahati-781001. Phone 0361-2601843 / 2516367. Mobile +91 6901281650. NALSA helpline 15100. Email assamslsa1@gmail.com
India's MuslimsAssam State Legal Services Authority – Contact Us (assam.nalsa.gov.in)India
Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR)
Network of advocates and paralegals that gives pro bono (free) legal help to marginalised people and carries out fact-finding into identity-based violence.
Contact: Phone 11-4105-2797 (Monday–Saturday). Email apcrindia@gmail.com. E 57/1, AFE-I, Jamia Nagar, Okhla, New Delhi 110025
India's MuslimsAPCR – Contact Us (apcrindia.in)India (Assam)
Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) – Assam citizenship work
Gives legal and paralegal help to people in Assam's citizenship crisis: Foreigners Tribunal cases, release from detention camps, and wrongly accused people.
Contact: Email info@cjp.org.in (listed on cjp.org.in). Website https://cjp.org.in
India's MuslimsCJP Assam stands firm in its fight against citizenship crisis (cjp.org.in)India (Delhi)
Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DSLSA)
Free legal aid, legal aid clinics, Lok Adalats (people's courts) and victim compensation across Delhi's 11 districts.
Contact: Helpline 1516 and 15100 (24/7), 9870101337. Email lae-dslsa@gov.in. 3rd Floor, Rouse Avenue District Court Complex, Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg, New Delhi 110002. Online application: https://scourtapp.nic.in/lsams/nologin/applicationFiling.action. Video consultation 10am–5pm on working days: https://delhijudicialservices.webex.com/meet/webex.dslsa
India's MuslimsDelhi State Legal Services Authority (dslsa.org)India (Gujarat)
Gujarat State Legal Services Authority (GSLSA)
Gujarat's state authority for free legal aid, legal awareness and alternative dispute resolution.
Contact: Phone/Fax 079-27664964; 27665296. Email msguj.lsa@nic.in. 3rd Floor, GSLSA Building, Nr. Gujarat High Court Post Office, Gujarat High Court Campus, Sola, Ahmedabad-380060
India's MuslimsGSLSA – Contact (gujarat.nalsa.gov.in)India (Haryana)
Haryana State Legal Services Authority (HSLSA)
Haryana's state authority for free legal aid.
Contact: 15100. Email hslsa.haryana@gmail.com, hslsa@hry.nic.in. Institutional Plot No. 09, Sector-14, Panchkula (near Kisan Bhawan)
India's MuslimsHSLSA – Contact Us (haryana.nalsa.gov.in)India (Karnataka)
Karnataka State Legal Services Authority (KSLSA)
Karnataka's state authority for free legal aid.
Contact: Phone 080-22111730. NALSA helpline 15100. Email mskar-slsa@hck.gov.in. 1st Floor, Nyaya Degula Building, H. Siddaiah Road, Bengaluru-560027. Office hours Mon–Sat 10:00–17:30 (2nd Saturday closed, 4th Saturday 10:00–14:00)
India's MuslimsKSLSA – Contact Us (karnataka.nalsa.gov.in)India (Kerala)
Kerala State Legal Services Authority (KELSA)
Kerala's state authority for free legal aid.
Contact: Phone 0484-2396717 / 0484-2395717. Toll-free 15100. Email kelsakerala@gmail.com, kelsakerala@nic.in. Niyama Sahaya Bhavan, Old XVIII Court, opposite Advocate General's Office, Ernakulam 682031
India's MuslimsKELSA – Contact Us (kerala.nalsa.gov.in)India (Madhya Pradesh)
Madhya Pradesh State Legal Services Authority (MPSLSA)
Madhya Pradesh's state authority for free legal aid.
Contact: Toll-free 15100. Phone 0761-2678352, 0761-2624537. Email mplsajab@nic.in. Grievances: grievance.mpslsa@gmail.com. 574, South Civil Lines, Pachpedi, Jabalpur 482002
India's MuslimsMPSLSA – Contact Us (madhyapradesh.nalsa.gov.in)India (Maharashtra)
Maharashtra State Legal Services Authority (MSLSA)
Maharashtra's state authority for free legal aid, Lok Adalats (people's courts), mediation and victim compensation.
Contact: Toll-free 15100 and 1800222324. Phone 022-22691395, 022-22631358. Email mslsa-bhc@nic.in. 3rd Floor, MTNL Fountain Telecom Building No. 1, Mumbai-400001
India's MuslimsMSLSA – Contact Us (maharashtra.nalsa.gov.in)India
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) – HRCNet complaint portal
Online portal for filing human rights complaints with the NHRC or a State Human Rights Commission. Each complaint gets a diary number so you can track it.
Contact: Online complaint: https://hrcnet.nic.in/HRCNet/public/webcomplaint.aspx. Toll-free facilitation counter 14433. Email cr.nhrc@nic.in. Phone 011-24651330. Post: National Human Rights Commission, Manav Adhikar Bhavan, C-Block, GPO Complex, INA, New Delhi-110023
India's MuslimsHRCNet – Online complaint (NHRC/SHRC) (hrcnet.nic.in)India
National Legal Services Authority (NALSA)
India's national body for free legal aid under the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987. It takes legal aid applications online and in person, and runs the national legal aid helpline.
Contact: Helpline 15100 (toll-free). Online legal aid application: https://scourtapp.nic.in/lsams/nologin/applicationFiling.action?requestLocale=en. In person: NALSA Centre for Citizen Services, Jaisalmer House, 26 Man Singh Road, New Delhi-110011. Phone 011-23382778, 23071450, 23382121. Email nalsa-dla@nic.in
India's MuslimsNALSA – Contact Us (nalsa.gov.in)India (Rajasthan)
Rajasthan State Legal Services Authority (RSLSA)
Rajasthan's state authority for free legal aid.
Contact: Helpline 9928900900. Toll-free 15100. Phone +91-141-2227481. Email rj-slsa@nic.in, rslsajp@gmail.com. Vidhik Sewa Sadan, Vidhik Sewa Marg, Jaipur
India's MuslimsRSLSA – Contact Us (rajasthan.nalsa.gov.in)India
Socio Legal Information Centre (SLIC) / Human Rights Law Network (HRLN)
Non-profit legal aid organisation (the old hrln.org address now redirects here) with legal aid programmes in more than 25 states, including litigation before high courts on criminal justice and housing rights.
Contact: Phone +91-11-24374501, +91-11-24379855. Email contact@slic.org.in or admin@slic.org.in. 576-A, Masjid Road, Jangpura, Bhogal, New Delhi-110014
India's MuslimsSLIC – Contact Us (slic.org.in)India
Supreme Court Legal Services Committee (SCLSC)
Free legal aid for eligible people (under Section 12 of the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987) who need to bring or defend a case before the Supreme Court of India.
Contact: E-filing of applications at https://sclsc.gov.in
India's MuslimsSupreme Court Legal Services Committee (sclsc.gov.in)India (Telangana)
Telangana State Legal Services Authority (TSLSA)
Telangana's state authority for free legal aid.
Contact: Phone 040-23446723. NALSA helpline 15100. Email telanganaslsa@gmail.com. 1st & 2nd Floor, Nyaya Seva Sadan, Telangana High Court Premises, Hyderabad-500066
India's MuslimsTSLSA – Contact Us (telangana.nalsa.gov.in)India (Uttar Pradesh)
Uttar Pradesh State Legal Services Authority (UPSLSA)
Uttar Pradesh's state authority for free legal aid.
Contact: Toll-free 1800-419-0234. Phone 0522-2286395, 2286265. Email upslsa@nic.in. 4/7, Gomti Nagar Extension, Lucknow 226010
India's MuslimsUPSLSA – Contact Us (uttarpradesh.nalsa.gov.in)India (Uttarakhand)
Uttarakhand State Legal Services Authority (UKSLSA)
Uttarakhand's state authority for free legal aid, Lok Adalats (people's courts), mediation and victim compensation.
Contact: Toll-free 1-800-180-4000. NALSA helpline 15100. Phone 05942-236762, 236552. Email slsa-uk@nic.in, ukslsanainital@gmail.com. ADR Centre, High Court Compound, Nainital
India's MuslimsUKSLSA – Contact Us (uttarakhand.nalsa.gov.in)India (West Bengal)
West Bengal State Legal Services Authority (WBSLSA)
West Bengal's state authority for free legal aid.
Contact: Phone 033 2248 1828. Email wbstatelegal@gmail.com. 1st Floor, City Civil Court Building, 2 & 3 Kiran Shankar Ray Rd, B.B.D. Bagh, Kolkata 700001
India's MuslimsWBSLSA – Contact Us (westbengal.nalsa.gov.in)
Survivors: UN mechanisms and trusted documentation groups
Worldwide
UN Special Procedures – online submission form (OHCHR)
The UN human rights office's online form for reporting alleged human rights violations to the Special Procedures (independent experts) of the Human Rights Council. Any individual, group, civil-society organisation, inter-governmental body or national human rights body can submit.
Contact: Online form: https://spsubmission.ohchr.org/ ; by post: OHCHR-UNOG, 8-14 Avenue de la Paix, 1211 Geneve 10, Switzerland. The page gives no email address.
PalestineSudanMyanmarThe UyghursIndia's MuslimsSpecial Procedures Submission Form (spsubmission.ohchr.org)
For paralegals, lawyers and mosque help desks
The Justice Council adopts an existing legal-aid app rather than building its own, and runs it through India's document clinics and mosque help desks. Its data stays minimal and encrypted. The work it serves in the plan:
Months 1-3 · Ummah Relief and Reconstruction Waqf Trust
Draft the Waqf Trust's deed, trustee rules, sharia board terms, audit and sanctions-compliance manual. Include one ring-fenced, unconditional Palestine fund that is kept beyond any single state's reach by lawful means only, and the specification for a giving app that never holds funds.
PalestineSudanMyanmarThe UyghursIndia's MuslimsMonths 1-3 · Uyghur diaspora and documentation groups
Press Canada's immigration ministry to fill its 10,000-place Uyghur resettlement pledge before the end-2026 deadline, and other host states' interior ministries to make non-refoulement of Uyghurs binding. Offer zakat-funded community sponsorship through the Trust.
The UyghursMonths 1-3 · Indian legal aid services and local authorities
Build the India module of the legal-aid app and a document-clinic guide for mosque help desks. It covers name corrections, roll-revision appeals, Foreigners Tribunal hearings and eviction challenges under the Supreme Court's November 2025 and February 2026 rulings, with priority for women and the poor.
India's MuslimsMonths 4-6 · Indian legal aid services and local authorities
Back families with legal-aid lawyers to file contempt petitions against evictions carried out on a day's notice or without review, and habeas corpus petitions for Kashmiris held after Pahalgam. The Supreme Court has already ruled against punitive demolitions; the captured India–Bangladesh border talks are not used.
India's MuslimsMonths 7-9 · Indian legal aid services and local authorities
Analyse the West Bengal special intensive revision deletions by district and community, and Assam's evictions and holding-centre detentions. Turn the analysis into court filings and submissions to the National Human Rights Commission and the UN special rapporteurs, in place of the captured border talks.
India's MuslimsMonths 10-12 · Rohingya representative and survivor bodies
Ask Bangladesh and Malaysia to keep return voluntary and refuse any link between repatriation and dropping the ICJ case. Malaysia should halt its approved deportations and give UNHCR access to detention, and both should open lawful work for Rohingya, backed by the Trust's camp funding, and accept a representative body chosen through consultation in the camps.
MyanmarMonths 10-12 · Indian legal aid services and local authorities
Using the legal-aid files, ask the National Human Rights Commission to open inquiries into Assam's holding centres and evictions and into the Altaf Lali killing, and ask the Election Commission to restore wrongly deleted names before the next election. The Union government and the captured border talks are not the route.
India's Muslims