The Week / By By Deepak Tiwari
When all civil society and labour organisations of Chhattisgarh gathered in front of Burha Talab lake in Raipur last Sunday to protest against the arrests of five human rights activists, Rajeshwari had especially come from Ambikapur, 380km from Raipur, to express solidarity against the arrest of Sudha Bharadwaj.
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Groundxero / By Groundxero
Workers, activists, students, lawyers and human rights organisations come together in Mumbai on the first death anniversary of Gauri Lankesh, to protest against state homicides, state violence and state-sponsored socio-political oppression at every level in India. “Whom all will you arrest? Kis kis ko qaid karoge?” – the protestors demand.
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Scroll.in / By Ajaz Ashraf
The BJP government wants to teach a lesson to Dalit activists and their supporters, says the co-founder of the Dalit Panther party.
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The Indian Express / By Parijata Bharadwaj, Guneet Ahuja, V Sawarkar
Three young lawyers on the arrested Chhattisgarh-based lawyer and activist Sudha Bharadwaj.
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Scroll.in / By Ajai Sahni
‘This entire petty, pathetic and incompetent plot is a disgrace. It dishonours the security personnel. It dishonours the state, it dishonours India.’
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Campaign Against State Repression on Rights Activists
Sep 5, 2018 – Delhi
Truth Deserves You Production / By Satyen K. Bordoloi
en / hindi / marathi | 23min | 2018
Hundreds of activists of different organizations and ordinary citizens turned up at Dadar Station, Mumbai on Teachers Day and the first anniversary of the assassination of Gauri Lankesh, to protest against the targeting of activists and human rights workers in the name of ‘urban naxals’.
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Friends,
The situation in the country today is that of Emergency. In fact, it may be worse. Anyone who criticises the government is branded Naxal or Maoist and, on this basis, their homes are raided, they are arrested and sent to jail. Using the violence led by Brahmanical forces at Bhima-Koregaon as an excuse, the BJP-RSS is trying to silence the people raising questions about the fundamental rights of common people, be it issues of unemployment, condition of impoverished farmers, atrocities committed on dalits, or the murder of people belonging to minority communities all over the country.
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Kashmir News Trust / By Kashmir News Trust Web Desk
Srinagar: “Since last 7 decades, the Indian government has routinized the victimization of the voices of dissent in Jammu and Kashmir, either by arresting the political leaders, activists, journalists and also by imposing various kinds of restrictions. Recently, a young journalist Aasif Sultan has been arrested for one of his stories. This obviously is not the first time Kashmiri journalists or activists have been targeted for their work. This reality in Jammu and Kashmir has been largely ignored or endorsed by the vast sections of opinion makers in India,” this was stated by Spokesperson Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) in a statement on Tuesday.
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