‘Maharashtra police has no understanding of Naxalism’
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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Acquittal in UAPA a long legal battle for prisoners
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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Why the State Is Attempting to Link Dalit Resistance to Maoism
The Wire / Sowjanya Tamalapakula
The Muslim question has been dealt with by stigmatising Muslims as ‘anti-national’ and the ‘other’ to the larger Hindu community. Stigmatising Dalits in a similar fashion is not plausible because Dalits are an essential part of the ‘Hindu community’.
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How the police can fabricate evidence to suggest that anyone is an ‘urban Maoist’?
Scroll.in / By Anand Teltumbde
The writer and management professor says that the authorities are planting fake evidence on computers so that they can jail dissidents.
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Just Because Adv. Surendra Gadling Argued For Prof. Saibaba, He Is Being Treated Like A Third-Grade Criminal: Anand Grover To SC
Live Law India / By Mehal Jain
The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice D. Y. Chandrachud and Justice A. M. Khanwilkar adjourned to Monday the hearing on the PIL by historian Romila Thapar and four other eminent persons over the arrest of five activists in connection with the Bhima-Koregaon violence.
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Video: Rona Wilson speaks about Committee for Releasing Political Prisoners
en | 22 min | 2012
Dalit Camera / Speaker: Rona Wilson
Rona Wilson speaks about repression, draconian laws, about emerging struggles and demands and the role of Committe for Releasing Political Prisoners (CRPP).
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‘Shocked at the arrest of human rights defenders’
The Citizen / By MADISON, NJ
As an associate professor in political science at Drew University, New Jersey, who teaches and researches on human rights in India and the United States, I have been shocked to hear about the arbitrary arrest of prominent human rights activist and journalist Gautam Navlakha (as well as PUCL lawyer/ activist Sudha Bhardwaj, eminent poet Varavara Rao, lawyer Arun Ferreira and others) under the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act that undermines basic due process rights.
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Gautam Navlakha has always been a principled dissenter. It’s a shame he’s being punished for it
Scroll.in / By C Rammanohar Reddy
It is difficult to witness the Indian state bring down the full force of its might on a person with so much commitment to so many interests.
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A poet against the state : Talking with Varavara Rao
First published: Jun 30, 2016
RAIOT / By Ramu Ramanathan
In the first of the two part interview with Varavara Rao, founder member of Virasam (Revolutionary Writers’ Association), by playwright Ramu Ramanathan, the Maoist ideologue and Telegu poet reaffirms the role of an intellectual and reflects on the history of repression of the Indian state, and on the issues surrounding the statehood of Telangana.
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Arun Ferreira’s account of custodial torture, years of imprisonment is shared by thousands of fellow countrymen, women
First published: Nov 20, 2015
Counterview.org / By Fr Cedric Prakash sj*
On September 27, 2011 Arun Ferreira was released from the Nagpur jail after being illegally incarcerated since May 2007 on charges of being a Naxalite. Just as he stepped out from the gates of the jail even as his aged parents and other family members waited outside the jail to welcome him back into their loving embrace, Arun was forcibly arrested once again and that too without a warrant.
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