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Call: Join Protest on 5th September 2018: Kis Kis ko Qaid Karoge?

Call: Join Protest on 5th September 2018: Kis Kis ko Qaid Karoge?


Call by Concerned Students and Citizens of Mumbai
Since the beginning of this year, Maharashtra police has been illegally raiding and randomly arresting citizens of this country. In January, five Reliance contract workers’ union activists were arrested. In June, police arrested activists Mahesh Raut, Rona Wilson and Sudhir Dhawale, Nagpur University Prof. Shoma Sen and Sr. Adv. Surendra Gadling. On August 28th, Advocate Arun Ferreira, Writer Gautam Navlakha, Advocate Sudha Bharadwaj, Writer-Activist Varavara Rao and Ex-Mumbai University lecturer and writer Vernon Gonsalves were arrested.
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Maoist-link allegation absolute fabrication: Jesuit activist

Maoist-link allegation absolute fabrication: Jesuit activist

Matters India / by Matters India Reporter

Ranchi: An 82-year-old Jesuit activist on September 3 dismissed as “complete concoction and absolute falsehood” a police allegation that he has links with Maoists and banned organizations.
Father Stan Lourdusamy was among nine human rights activists who were raided in a pre-dawn simultaneous action across several cities on August 28 by the officials of the Maharashtra police’s Crime Branch. The special police team from the western Indian state arrested five people on charges of supporting Maoists engaged in anti-national activities, including a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Father Stan Swamy, Children and the Unholy State

Father Stan Swamy, Children and the Unholy State

The Wire / By Rajendran Narayanan and Debmalya

Stan Swamy has brought to light the deplorable conditions in which the undertrials are barely surviving and has sought answers for such repressive and illegal measures meted out by the State, while also fighting for the rights of Adivasis in Jharkhand.
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Urban Maoist Fakery

Urban Maoist Fakery

South Asia Intelligence Review / By Ajai Sahni

The unfolding of the alleged ‘urban Maoist conspiracy’ is, at once, both tragedy and farce, exposing the utter collapse of standards in policing and governance.
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Anatomy of a clampdown and the history of a long oppression

Anatomy of a clampdown and the history of a long oppression

The Leaflet / By Kritika A

The arrests of human rights activists and lawyers on August 28 and earlier on June 6, 2018 are all part of a wider theatre of Hindutva’s state-sponsored repression on those demanding democratic rights and freedoms for the most marginalised of Indian citizens. What began with Bhima-Koregaon had actually begun long back, with the atrocities against Dalits and Adivasis crossing the political threshold, such as those in Una and Saharanpur, as well as the ‘institutional murder’ of Rohith Vemula in January 2016.
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If you raise questions, you are anti-government, anti-national: Adivasi-rights activist Stan Swamy on the Bhima-Koregaon crackdown

If you raise questions, you are anti-government, anti-national: Adivasi-rights activist Stan Swamy on the Bhima-Koregaon crackdown

The Caravan Magazine / By Chitrangada Choudhury

On 28 August, the Pune Police raided the homes of nine prominent human-rights activists and intellectuals across the country. … In an interview over the phone, the journalist Chitrangada Choudhury spoke to Swamy about the police’s action against him, and his work in the Adivasi areas of Jharkhand over several decades. “We directly confront the government in the courts on issues of Adivasis,” Swamy said. “Because we ask questions, we are being harassed.”
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Case against me is nothing but an absolute fabrication

Case against me is nothing but an absolute fabrication

Sanhati / By Stan Swamy

Maharashtra police held a press conference in Mumbai on August 31, 2018. Additional Director-General (law and order) of Maharashtra police Mr. Parambir Singh told the media that in relation to the incident of Bhima-Koregaon, initially a FIR was lodged on January 8, 2018. According to him the name of Stan Swamy was added in the aforesaid FIR on August 23 along with the names of Arun Fereira, Varavara Rao, Vernon Gonsalvez, Sudha Bhardwaj, Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde.
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Video: Repeal Sedition – Sudha Bharadwaj comments

Video: Repeal Sedition – Sudha Bharadwaj comments

en | 4:45 min | 2017

Repeal Sedition Campaign

Scores of citizens – students, adivasis, villagers, social and political activists, environmentalists, writers, lawyers, teachers, journalists, singers, cartoonists etc – have been charged under Section 124 A of the Indian Penal Code with spreading disaffection against the government. Repeal Sedition is a record of voices of courage and conviction, of freedom and dissent. It is a campaign to repeal sedition.
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