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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rediff News / Interview with Anand Teltumbde
‘…incarcerated in jails, ruining their entire families.’
‘You would see that Dalits who displayed so much agitation over the Bhima-Koregaon issue are effectively silenced by the arrests of their activists by the police.’
‘What can be a more pitiable state than this for a people who had just seen a ray of hope after darkness of millennia?’
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The Indian Express / By Anand Teltumbde
“The harassment I have faced is meant to terrorise intellectuals, subdue dissent.”
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First published: Feb 1, 2013
The Caravanne Magazine / By Vernon Gonsalves
In 2007, the Naxal activist Vernon Gonsalves was arrested by the Maharashtra Police and charged on 18 counts, including that of waging guerilla war against the Indian state. Six years on, though now acquitted in many of these cases, Gonsalves continues to languish as an undertrial in Nagpur Central Jail, after a stint in Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail. If something fruitful has emerged from his long incarceration, it is words. In Gonsalves’s short story “Jailbird Jabbar”, the narrator—an “old class-strugglewalla”—tells us the story of Jabbar, one of the thousands of adolescents in Mumbai who live freestyle on the street, make a living from its many systems of trade, bootlegging, and barter, and sometimes fall foul of the law.
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