WSS condemns the majority judgment of the Supreme Court regarding the arrests of Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Gautam Navlakha and Varavara Rao.
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The Wire / By K.S.V. Krishnan
A retired army officer writes about his association with Sudha Bharadwaj.
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Scroll.in / By N Venugopal
The Telugu poet and writer has been implicated in 25 cases related to the Maoist insurgency over the decades. Not one has ever been proved in court.
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The Wire / By Ashok Prasad
It was the ridiculousness of the charges, the doubtful nature of the evidence and the public character and reputations of the people arrested, that made it clear that the entire sequence of events is an attempt to stifle voices of dissent in a particularly diabolical manner. Thus, acquital is the only just option.
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First published: Oct 21, 2013
Rediff.com / By Neeta Kolhatkar
A rare interview with Vernon Gonsalves, who was jailed for six years on the charge of being a Naxalite.
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The Wire / By The Wire Staff
The signatories have demanded the immediate and unconditional release of those arrested.
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Scroll.in / By Anand Teltumbde
It also reflects the community’s loss of ideological cohesion.
The controversy created by the June 6 judgement of the Bombay High Court’s Nagpur bench, banning the use of the term “Dalit” in government communication, while sterile on the face of it, is pregnant with meaning.
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DECCAN Chronicle / By Rahael Mathew
Strangely, it was five activists from different parts of the country who were arrested for inciting the riots!
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The Leaflet / The Leaflet Staff
The entire basis of the FIR against those arrested is that Sudhir Dhawale sang a song whose words were a call to bring down the State — he explained how these words are actually a translation of a poem in a play by Bertolt Brecht, The Good Person of Szchewan. He quoted CJI Dipak Mishra’s judgments rejecting the ban on the Malayalam novel Meesha where there SC upheld freedom of expression particularly cultural, artistic expression of a poet.
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As part of an India-wide police operation on 28th August, activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Gautam Navlakha and Varavara Rao were arrested and the homes of many more raided. Sudha Bharadwaj is a trade unionist and lawyer. The following video documents voices and protests from her working area in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh immediately after her arrest.
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