The CARAVAN / By Tushar Dhara
The circumstances surrounding all the purported assassination plots against Narendra Modi are intriguing—for the backgrounds of the individuals allegedly plotting the murder, for the political climate in which they were revealed, and for the media organisations that break the news.
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KAFLIA / By Nivedita Menon
We, the undersigned students, faculty and others from IIT Kharagpur are shocked with the treatment that the police forces have meted out to our ex-colleague, Prof. Anand Teltumbde and other intellectuals. His residence in Goa, where he is working as a Senior Professor and Chair, Big Data Analytics at Goa Institute of Management (GIM), was intruded by the police forces without permission in his absence. This police action was part of the large scale raids and arrests of eminent scholars, intellectuals and lawyers across the country on Tuesday.
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Sanhati India / Press Release by CDRO
Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations (CDRO) condemns the raid and arrests of democratic rights activists in Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Ranchi and Goa by Maharashtra police on 28th of August under the pretext of investigation in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case. Following the arrests of five academics, lawyers and activists in June, the second wave of arrests have expanded to include writers and journalists as well as the lawyers of those fighting for the release of those arrested in June.
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The Wire / By Sukanya Shantha
According to Degree Prasad Chouhan, the recent arrests of activists is part of a much larger conspiracy to stifle on-ground movements that have been gaining momentum over the years.
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Outlook India / By Neerja Sasikumar
Under the pretext of ‘#urbannaxals’, police barged into a central university campus, raided Dalit intellectual Prof Satyanarayana’s house, and seized all his academic work. A student recounts the ordeal.
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Newsclick / By Vivan Eyben
Senior Advocate Anand Grover speaks about UAPA and breaks down how from restrictions on bail to long periods of detention, the many facets of this law make it an extremely unjust one.
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CJP / by CJP-Team
On December 31, 2017 a fiercely passionate gathering of activists, former judges and political leaders proclaimed their commitment to fight the repressive economic, social and cultural policies of the Modi regime. This was the Elgar Parishad that preceded the gathering at Bhima Koregain on January 1, 2018 where Dalit families were attacked and assaulted by the ‘Sangh’ brigade.
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Scroll.in / By Shoaib Daniyal
Some TV news channels, it seems, cannot stop inventing and circulating bogeys to target people seen as opposing the incumbent dispensation.
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People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) strongly condemns and denounces the arrests under the draconian UAPA of:
1. Sudha Bharadwaj, PUCL National Secretary
2. Gautam Navalakha of PUDR,
3. Prof. Anand Teltumbde of CPDR,
4. Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira, advocates, and
5. VaraVara Rao, noted poet and rights activist.
PUCL also denounces the simultaneous multi-city raids conducted today, 28th August 2018 in a concerted and pre-meditated manner across the country at the premises of other eminent human rights activists.
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The Hindu / By Ajeet Mahale
Activist Vernon Gonsalves returned home on Thursday morning after a 48-hour ordeal that started at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, when his house was raided by the Pune police. Mr Gonsalves and four other activists were arrested under the various sections of the IPC and the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed that the five be placed under house arrest until September 6.
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