Sabrang / By Sudha Bharadwaj
Published February 8, 2016
A deep commitment to collective rights from the local union, international solidarity and grit ensured that the contract workers of Chhattisgarh inked a remarkable settlement, this January.
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First published: Jan 6, 2016
Frontline / By Frontline Staff
Arun Ferreira spent six years in Nagpur jail as a political prisoner. He was arrested in 2007 for alleged naxalite and anti-national activities under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. Eleven cases were registered against him. He fought a relentless legal battle to prove that the charges were false and completely fabricated. In January 2014, he was acquitted in all the cases for lack of substantial evidence. At the time of his release, he told Frontline: “My case is really nothing special. The real issue is the way political prisoners are handled and the blatant violations of the human rights of all prisoners.”
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Outlook India / By Manisha Sethi
Arresting activists is an attack on dissent in keeping with UAPA’s history
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The Wire / By Manoranjan Mohanty
Mounting state repression acknowledges the growing solidarity among the oppressed. The August assault has opened up political possibilities for the opposition in the run up to 2019.
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India Today / By Jawahar Raja
The point of these extraordinary laws is not to punish the terrorist, the seditionist, the goonda; it is to keep the whistleblower, the dissenter, the inconvenient in jail for as long as the trial lasts.
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The Week / By By Deepak Tiwari
When all civil society and labour organisations of Chhattisgarh gathered in front of Burha Talab lake in Raipur last Sunday to protest against the arrests of five human rights activists, Rajeshwari had especially come from Ambikapur, 380km from Raipur, to express solidarity against the arrest of Sudha Bharadwaj.
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Groundxero / By Groundxero
Workers, activists, students, lawyers and human rights organisations come together in Mumbai on the first death anniversary of Gauri Lankesh, to protest against state homicides, state violence and state-sponsored socio-political oppression at every level in India. “Whom all will you arrest? Kis kis ko qaid karoge?” – the protestors demand.
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Scroll.in / By Ajaz Ashraf
The BJP government wants to teach a lesson to Dalit activists and their supporters, says the co-founder of the Dalit Panther party.
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The Indian Express / By Parijata Bharadwaj, Guneet Ahuja, V Sawarkar
Three young lawyers on the arrested Chhattisgarh-based lawyer and activist Sudha Bharadwaj.
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