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Member of European Parliament Lídia Senra Rodríguez writes to Ms Federica Mogherini

Member of European Parliament Lídia Senra Rodríguez writes to Ms Federica Mogherini

Letter By Lídia Senra Rodríguez

Dear Ms Federica MOGHERINI
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
I call on you once again regarding your responsibility as High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy in order to ask for your much-appreciated reaction about the dramatic situation of Professor GN Saibaba. …
I also demand the immediate release of the lawyer of Professor GN Saibaba, Surendra Gadling, as well as human rights activists Varavara Rao, Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Shoma Sen, Sudhir Dhawale, Rona Wilson and Mahesh Raut.

Full letter (pdf file): Letter to HR Ms. Mogherini regarding the worrying situation of Indian professor GN Saibaba_050419.pdf

Vote against hate in Lok Sabha elections, urge women marching for change in Delhi

Vote against hate in Lok Sabha elections, urge women marching for change in Delhi

Scroll.in / By Vijayta Lalwani

Women marched for change in several cities across India on Thursday. … As the women marched, several chanted slogans that called for an end to patriarchy, fascism and casteism. Many women also held posters that demanded the release of activists Shoma Sen and Sudha Bharadwaj, who were among nine activists arrested in June and August in connection with an investigation into a public meeting organised a day before caste-related violence erupted at Bhima Koregaon near Pune on January 1, 2018.
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Women’s Groups Release A Statement Prior To The 2019 Lok Sabha Elections

Women’s Groups Release A Statement Prior To The 2019 Lok Sabha Elections

feminisminindia.com / By WomenMarch4Change

For the last five years, women of India have watched with growing anger as our struggles for equality have been dented and our hard-won freedoms undermined. We have watched the present government and its followers spread misogyny, hate and lies across this land. Today, on the eve of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, we say, NO MORE!
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People’s Manifesto: Against State Repression For Saving Democracy

People’s Manifesto: Against State Repression For Saving Democracy

Kractivist.org / Statement by Mumbai Rises to Save Democracy

India has witnessed a drastic rise in attacks on human rights activists, journalists, lawyers, farmers, adivasis, RTI activists, students, academicians, workers, protestors etc. opposing anti-people policies of the government and protesting human rights violations. The constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of speech and expression, association and assembly are under severe threat. Several people across the country have been criminalized in false and fabricated cases.
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Online Petition: Release Varavara Rao Immediately

Online Petition: Release Varavara Rao Immediately

Change.org / By Venugopal Rao N

The 79-year old renowned poet and public intellectual Varavara Rao, along with four others, was arrested by police on August 28, 2018 on fabricated charges and Supreme Court of India intervened and directed the police to keep all the arrested under ‘house arrest’, pending legal reliefs. Finally he was arrested on November 17, 2018 and imprisoned in Yerawada Central Prison, Pune since then.
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Police has no case to incriminate Varavara Rao: defence

Police has no case to incriminate Varavara Rao: defence

The Hindu / By Shoumojit Banerjee

“It is unjust to hold him [Mr. Rao] in custody on the basis of such thin evidence without a trial,” said advocate Nahar.
The reported Maoist communications produced by the Pune police during their investigation into the ‘Elgaar Parishad’ and the subsequent Bhima-Koregaon clashes had nothing to incriminate poet-activist P. Varavara Rao, submitted the defence counsel for the jailed activist.
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