Solidarity with Hany Babu – Various Statements
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If we do not speak up now against the arrest of Professor Hany Babu, we may lose India forever
30/07/2020
The Wire / by Apoorvanand
The Constitution give us the right to think and express ourselves in our own way. It cannot be criminalised so casually.
Hany Babu has been arrested. Even though the news was not surprising, it shocked me. It is unsettling to think that we will no longer walk past a class overflowing with students with Hany Babu inside, that we do not know how long it will take to bump into him again in the corridors of Delhi University’s Arts Faculty.
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Statement by Federation of Central Universities Teachers´ Associations (FEDCUTA)
29/07/2020
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Statement by Birsa Amedkar Phule Students Association
29/07/2020
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Statement by All India Democratic Students´ Organisation
29/07/2020
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Hany Babu Is Guilty – of Helping Students Develop an Interest in Language, Region and Culture
29/07/2020
The Wire / by Jyotirmoy Talukdar
When I was an MA student, the Delhi University professor taught me how linguistic purism operates and is intrinsically connected to the construction and maintenance of a national identity.
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Student outfits, teachers condemn arrest of DU professor Hany Babu
29/07/2020
Outlook / by pti & updating with statements of students
New Delhi, Jul 28 (PTI) A section of the Delhi University fraternity and some student outfits condemned the arrest of professor Hany Babu MT by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday, saying it was “a blatant attempt to silence dissent”.
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Prof. Hany Babu’s arrest is a blatant silencing of dissent
29/07/2020
India Resists / by Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association & Campaign against the witch hunt of anti-CAA Activists
Our colleague from Delhi University, Hany Babu, has become the 12th person to be arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case. The die had been cast perhaps when in September 2019 the Pune Police conducted an unlawful raid on his home, seizing his electronic devices and books, without even deigning to follow requisite procedure. For the past two and a half years, the Pune police first, and now the NIA, have been conducting a blatant witch hunt in the name of investigations in the Bhima Koregaon Elgar Parishad case – raiding and arresting activists, academics and even lawyers who have stood with the most marginalised.
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From Setting the Syllabus to Doing Ground Work, Hany Babu Has Been Devoted to Social Change
29/07/2020
The Wire / by Indradeep Bhattacharyya
Fellow academics describe the professor as someone committed to lifting the downtrodden and one who considers the law his ally, not adversary.
The arrest of Delhi University professor Hany Babu M.T. sent shockwaves across the academic fraternity on Tuesday even as his former and present students vociferously objected to his arrest by the National Investigating Agency (NIA) in Mumbai where he was being interrogated since July 23.
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Condemn The Arbitary Arrest Of Prof. Hany Babu!
28/07/2020
28/07/2020
Stop the witch-hunt of human rights defenders by the NIA!
Immediately release all political prisoners!
July 28th 2020: The Campaign Against State Repression (CASR) condemns the arrest of Professor Hany Babu MT at Mumbai by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with the Bhima Koregaon-Elgaar Parishad case. Despite the surging cases of COVID-19 in both Delhi and Mumbai, Prof. Babu of the Department of English in Delhi University was summoned as a witness and forced by the NIA to travel to Mumbai after being denied the option of video conferencing.
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Statement by students of Miranda House
28/07/2020
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