On Activists’ Arrests, High Court Questions Press Conference By Police
NDTV / Eidted by Debjani Chatterjee
Bombay High Court is upset with Maharashtra Police for holding a press conference showing evidence against the arrested activists
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Jharkhand: Activist Stan Swamy claims he is being targeted for working with Dalits and Adivasis
Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff
The 83-year-old was among the activists raided by the Pune Police in connection with the Bhima Koregaon violence last week.
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If you raise questions, you are anti-government, anti-national: Adivasi-rights activist Stan Swamy on the Bhima-Koregaon crackdown
The Caravan Magazine / By Chitrangada Choudhury
On 28 August, the Pune Police raided the homes of nine prominent human-rights activists and intellectuals across the country. … In an interview over the phone, the journalist Chitrangada Choudhury spoke to Swamy about the police’s action against him, and his work in the Adivasi areas of Jharkhand over several decades. “We directly confront the government in the courts on issues of Adivasis,” Swamy said. “Because we ask questions, we are being harassed.”
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Case against me is nothing but an absolute fabrication
Sanhati / By Stan Swamy
Maharashtra police held a press conference in Mumbai on August 31, 2018. Additional Director-General (law and order) of Maharashtra police Mr. Parambir Singh told the media that in relation to the incident of Bhima-Koregaon, initially a FIR was lodged on January 8, 2018. According to him the name of Stan Swamy was added in the aforesaid FIR on August 23 along with the names of Arun Fereira, Varavara Rao, Vernon Gonsalvez, Sudha Bhardwaj, Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde.
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Video: Repeal Sedition – Sudha Bharadwaj comments
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Repeal Sedition Campaign
Scores of citizens – students, adivasis, villagers, social and political activists, environmentalists, writers, lawyers, teachers, journalists, singers, cartoonists etc – have been charged under Section 124 A of the Indian Penal Code with spreading disaffection against the government. Repeal Sedition is a record of voices of courage and conviction, of freedom and dissent. It is a campaign to repeal sedition.
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The many plots to assassinate Narendra Modi
The CARAVAN / By Tushar Dhara
The circumstances surrounding all the purported assassination plots against Narendra Modi are intriguing—for the backgrounds of the individuals allegedly plotting the murder, for the political climate in which they were revealed, and for the media organisations that break the news.
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Statement against police action on Prof. Anand Teltumbde and others – Students, Faculty and Alumni of IIT Kharagpur
KAFLIA / By Nivedita Menon
We, the undersigned students, faculty and others from IIT Kharagpur are shocked with the treatment that the police forces have meted out to our ex-colleague, Prof. Anand Teltumbde and other intellectuals. His residence in Goa, where he is working as a Senior Professor and Chair, Big Data Analytics at Goa Institute of Management (GIM), was intruded by the police forces without permission in his absence. This police action was part of the large scale raids and arrests of eminent scholars, intellectuals and lawyers across the country on Tuesday.
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CDRO: Condemn Arrests of Democratic Rights Activists Advocate Sudha Bharadwaj, Gautam Navlakha, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira and Varavara Rao and raids at homes of several others!
Sanhati India / Press Release by CDRO
Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations (CDRO) condemns the raid and arrests of democratic rights activists in Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Ranchi and Goa by Maharashtra police on 28th of August under the pretext of investigation in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case. Following the arrests of five academics, lawyers and activists in June, the second wave of arrests have expanded to include writers and journalists as well as the lawyers of those fighting for the release of those arrested in June.
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Police Releases One More Letter, Chhattisgarh Land Rights Activist Named This Time
The Wire / By Sukanya Shantha
According to Degree Prasad Chouhan, the recent arrests of activists is part of a much larger conspiracy to stifle on-ground movements that have been gaining momentum over the years.
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Persecuting The Dalit Intellectual: A Student Recounts Police Raid At Prof Satyanarayana’s House
Outlook India / By Neerja Sasikumar
Under the pretext of ‘#urbannaxals’, police barged into a central university campus, raided Dalit intellectual Prof Satyanarayana’s house, and seized all his academic work. A student recounts the ordeal.
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