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Jharkhand Govt training Adivasis to fight/kill Adivasis: a Note of Resistance

Jharkhand Govt training Adivasis to fight/kill Adivasis: a Note of Resistance

First published: Jul 14, 2014

India Restists / By Stan Swamy

“Tribals to be trained in guerrilla warfare to fight Maoists in state” (Hindustan Times, Ranchi edition, 30-6-2014). The newspaper report goes on to spell out govt’s plan. Two special battalions comprising of youths from the primitive tribal groups in the state will be recruited and trained in advanced guerrilla warfare to fight the Maoists in the forests.
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Gautam Navlakha, Anand Teltumbde, Stan Swamy get relief from arrest till December 14

Gautam Navlakha, Anand Teltumbde, Stan Swamy get relief from arrest till December 14

Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff

The Bombay High Court asked the prosecution to submit by December 4 all the relevant material in the case against the activists.
The Bombay High Court on Thursday restrained the police from arresting activists Gautam Navlakha, Anand Teltumbde and Stan Swamy till December 14, PTI reported. While Navlakha had been arrested in August in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case, the homes and offices of Teltumbde and Swamy had been searched.
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“Neither the `anonymous complaints´ nor the `threats of arrests´ are new for me“

“Neither the `anonymous complaints´ nor the `threats of arrests´ are new for me“

Round Table India / By Degree Prasad Chouhan

The state is continuously trying to establish a fake connection between naxals and me. I have been targeted by the state and non-state actors because of my sustained activism and my work against the feudal society, where the marginalized communities are suppressed and evicted, deprived of their human rights. This is branding and stigmatisation of Human Rights Defenders in India.
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Citizen Varavara Rao versus Indian State: Charged, momentous scenes from an arrest

Citizen Varavara Rao versus Indian State: Charged, momentous scenes from an arrest

The Leaflet / By N Venugopal

As part of the state-wide protest call, in many districts people held demonstrations and in front of Varavara Rao’s house also a demonstration began in the morning. Various students, youth, writers, workers organizations participated and spoke at the demonstration. Several songs against state repression were sung. It was like a full-fledged public meeting, as it was on one of the main roads in the city.
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Trade unionists branded as ‘Urban Naxals’, arrested under UAPA shows State repression of labour activists has peaked

Trade unionists branded as ‘Urban Naxals’, arrested under UAPA shows State repression of labour activists has peaked

The Leaflet / By B Sivaraman

The NDA government in the Centre and the Maharashtra government are trampling upon the entire gamut of rights and not only human rights as understood in the conventional manner. Labour rights, women’s rights and Adivasi rights all are turning into human rights issues because of repression.
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Activist Varavara Rao taken into custody by Pune police

Activist Varavara Rao taken into custody by Pune police

Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff

Rao’s family claims that police did not have transit remand papers.
Telugu poet and writer P Varavara Rao was taken into custody from his home in Hyderabad by the Pune police on Saturday evening for his alleged involvement in a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He had been under house arrest since the end of August.
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The highly charged, momentous hours before Varavara Rao’s arrest

The highly charged, momentous hours before Varavara Rao’s arrest

The Bengal Story / By N Venugopal Rao

Starting from 1.40 in the afternoon of Friday, when the High Court in Hyderabad dismissed the petition of Varavara Rao, till 8.40 in the night of Saturday, when he was taken away by Pune police, a little more than thirty hours, his house in Gandhinagar in Hyderabad witnessed highly charged, inspiring and momentous scenes of anxiety, anger, confidence, hope, and protest on the part of people as well as cunning, bluffing, illegality and highhandedness on the part of police.
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Public meetings at Bhoomiheen Colony, Govindpuri (Delhi)

Public meetings at Bhoomiheen Colony, Govindpuri (Delhi)

By Campaign Against State Repression On Rights Activists

We organised several public meetings today at Bhoomiheen Colony, Govindpuri. Members from different organization talked about divisive political scenario being set up in the country. Further we spoke about the tactics of using black draconian laws to silent the dissenting voices of people.
We reteriate our demands to:
#RepealAllDraconianLaws
#ReleaseAllPoliticalPrisoners