Scroll.in / By Ajai Sahni
‘This entire petty, pathetic and incompetent plot is a disgrace. It dishonours the security personnel. It dishonours the state, it dishonours India.’
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Campaign Against State Repression on Rights Activists
Sep 5, 2018 – Delhi
Truth Deserves You Production / By Satyen K. Bordoloi
en / hindi / marathi | 23min | 2018
Hundreds of activists of different organizations and ordinary citizens turned up at Dadar Station, Mumbai on Teachers Day and the first anniversary of the assassination of Gauri Lankesh, to protest against the targeting of activists and human rights workers in the name of ‘urban naxals’.
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Friends,
The situation in the country today is that of Emergency. In fact, it may be worse. Anyone who criticises the government is branded Naxal or Maoist and, on this basis, their homes are raided, they are arrested and sent to jail. Using the violence led by Brahmanical forces at Bhima-Koregaon as an excuse, the BJP-RSS is trying to silence the people raising questions about the fundamental rights of common people, be it issues of unemployment, condition of impoverished farmers, atrocities committed on dalits, or the murder of people belonging to minority communities all over the country.
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Kashmir News Trust / By Kashmir News Trust Web Desk
Srinagar: “Since last 7 decades, the Indian government has routinized the victimization of the voices of dissent in Jammu and Kashmir, either by arresting the political leaders, activists, journalists and also by imposing various kinds of restrictions. Recently, a young journalist Aasif Sultan has been arrested for one of his stories. This obviously is not the first time Kashmiri journalists or activists have been targeted for their work. This reality in Jammu and Kashmir has been largely ignored or endorsed by the vast sections of opinion makers in India,” this was stated by Spokesperson Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) in a statement on Tuesday.
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Call by Concerned Students and Citizens of Mumbai
Since the beginning of this year, Maharashtra police has been illegally raiding and randomly arresting citizens of this country. In January, five Reliance contract workers’ union activists were arrested. In June, police arrested activists Mahesh Raut, Rona Wilson and Sudhir Dhawale, Nagpur University Prof. Shoma Sen and Sr. Adv. Surendra Gadling. On August 28th, Advocate Arun Ferreira, Writer Gautam Navlakha, Advocate Sudha Bharadwaj, Writer-Activist Varavara Rao and Ex-Mumbai University lecturer and writer Vernon Gonsalves were arrested.
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Matters India / by Matters India Reporter
Ranchi: An 82-year-old Jesuit activist on September 3 dismissed as “complete concoction and absolute falsehood” a police allegation that he has links with Maoists and banned organizations.
Father Stan Lourdusamy was among nine human rights activists who were raided in a pre-dawn simultaneous action across several cities on August 28 by the officials of the Maharashtra police’s Crime Branch. The special police team from the western Indian state arrested five people on charges of supporting Maoists engaged in anti-national activities, including a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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The Wire / By Rajendran Narayanan and Debmalya
Stan Swamy has brought to light the deplorable conditions in which the undertrials are barely surviving and has sought answers for such repressive and illegal measures meted out by the State, while also fighting for the rights of Adivasis in Jharkhand.
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South Asia Intelligence Review / By Ajai Sahni
The unfolding of the alleged ‘urban Maoist conspiracy’ is, at once, both tragedy and farce, exposing the utter collapse of standards in policing and governance.
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The Leaflet / By Kritika A
The arrests of human rights activists and lawyers on August 28 and earlier on June 6, 2018 are all part of a wider theatre of Hindutva’s state-sponsored repression on those demanding democratic rights and freedoms for the most marginalised of Indian citizens. What began with Bhima-Koregaon had actually begun long back, with the atrocities against Dalits and Adivasis crossing the political threshold, such as those in Una and Saharanpur, as well as the ‘institutional murder’ of Rohith Vemula in January 2016.
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