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Inside the Anda Cell: Extracts from Arun Ferreira’s Prison Memoir

Inside the Anda Cell: Extracts from Arun Ferreira’s Prison Memoir

First published: Sep 30, 2014

Book: Colours of The Cage – A Prison Memoir. By Arun Ferreira (Publisher: Aleph, 2014)


From 28 May to 14 June 2007, I was slapped with five more cases relating to Naxalite violence in Gondia, a district about 150 kilometres from Nagpur. Gondia and especially Gadchiroli, the other district lying at the extreme end of Maharashtra, are areas of intense Maoist activity. In almost all of Gadchiroli and parts of Gondia, armed Naxal squads have fought the police and paramilitary forces with support from the local tribals and peasants.
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Why the UAPA must go

Why the UAPA must go

India Today / By Jawahar Raja

The point of these extraordinary laws is not to punish the terrorist, the seditionist, the goonda; it is to keep the whistleblower, the dissenter, the inconvenient in jail for as long as the trial lasts.
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Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society condemns crack down on HR activists and liberal voices

Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society condemns crack down on HR activists and liberal voices

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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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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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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