UK Academics, Activists Condemn Arrest of Human Rights Activists
The Wire / By The Wire Staff
The signatories have demanded the immediate and unconditional release of those arrested.
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Bombay High Court’s ‘Dalit’ Ruling as come in handy for the politics of Hindutva
Scroll.in / By Anand Teltumbde
It also reflects the community’s loss of ideological cohesion.
The controversy created by the June 6 judgement of the Bombay High Court’s Nagpur bench, banning the use of the term “Dalit” in government communication, while sterile on the face of it, is pregnant with meaning.
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Acquittal in UAPA a long legal battle for prisoners
DECCAN Chronicle / By Rahael Mathew
Strangely, it was five activists from different parts of the country who were arrested for inciting the riots!
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Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi asserts basis of FIR is a translation of German playwright Bertolt Brecht’s poem!
The Leaflet / The Leaflet Staff
The entire basis of the FIR against those arrested is that Sudhir Dhawale sang a song whose words were a call to bring down the State — he explained how these words are actually a translation of a poem in a play by Bertolt Brecht, The Good Person of Szchewan. He quoted CJI Dipak Mishra’s judgments rejecting the ban on the Malayalam novel Meesha where there SC upheld freedom of expression particularly cultural, artistic expression of a poet.
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Video: No More Fake Charges!
hindi | en subs. | 11 min
As part of an India-wide police operation on 28th August, activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Gautam Navlakha and Varavara Rao were arrested and the homes of many more raided. Sudha Bharadwaj is a trade unionist and lawyer. The following video documents voices and protests from her working area in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh immediately after her arrest.
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Discipline, Dissent and ‘Urban Naxals’
VIKALP / By Satyaki Roy
One of the major features of the current regime is that it insinuates a concerted process of criminalization, assassination and intimidation as an evolving architecture of punishment not being backed by any judicial probe.
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Right To Freedom Of Expression
Outlook / By Preethi Nair
Prof Shoma Sen was arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, as were activists Rona Wilson, Mahesh Raut and Sudhir Dhawale, and lawyer Surendra Gadling as part of the police probe into the violence at Bhima-Koregaon.
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Why the State Is Attempting to Link Dalit Resistance to Maoism
The Wire / Sowjanya Tamalapakula
The Muslim question has been dealt with by stigmatising Muslims as ‘anti-national’ and the ‘other’ to the larger Hindu community. Stigmatising Dalits in a similar fashion is not plausible because Dalits are an essential part of the ‘Hindu community’.
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How the police can fabricate evidence to suggest that anyone is an ‘urban Maoist’?
Scroll.in / By Anand Teltumbde
The writer and management professor says that the authorities are planting fake evidence on computers so that they can jail dissidents.
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Video: Advocate Susan Abraham on #BhimaKoregaonArrests, UAPA
en | 15 min | 2018
The Leaflet / By KRITIKA A
Advocate Susan Abraham was one among the rights activists whose house was raided on the morning of August 28. She talks to The Leaflet about the raids, their connection to the Bhima Koregaon chain of events and the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act which has been used to incarcerate the rights activists.
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