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PUCL Convention: Resolutions on Kashmir Issue, FRA and Elgar Parishad Arrests Passed

04/03/2019 Rani

Pic: Raipur Feb 24, 2018

Newsclick / By Yogesh S

The convention also recognised the failure of the criminal justice system in the country, and talked about various draconian laws that are still being used to silence the voices of dissent.
The three-day convention was attended by 150 people from eleven states. In the light of the ongoing onslaught on the rights of various communities, attack on freedom of expression, and speech and growing intolerance in the country, the theme of the convention was ‘Threats and challenges to the idea of pluralism, democracy and the constitution’.
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Virasam Statement on Varavara Rao and Surendra Gadling

26/02/2019 Rani

Statement by VIRASAM (Revolutionary Writer’s Association)

Statement from Feb 1 2019
We strongly condemn implicating Varavara Rao and Surendra Gadling in yet another false case. Revolutionary poet, one of the founders of VIRASAM, Varavararao and advocate Surendra Gadling are charged with another concocted case by RSS police of Maharashtra. Yes, they are in fact acting like RSS members rather than state police.
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Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis Condemn Modi Govt’s Clampdown On Activists

14/02/2019 Rani

Hoffington Post / By Huffington Post

An association of activists and scholars said that Modi government has been “using its authority to silence any voice that challenges its domination and repression”.
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Free the rights activists in India: Global academics and social justice crusaders issue statement

12/02/2019 Rani

The Leaflet / Statement by “Fresh Perspectives, USA”

To defend the rights of the imprisoned and to prevent further illegal detentions, we, a group of social justice activists and scholars, came together and formed an association called Fresh Perspectives, USA. We have reached out to public intellectuals, critical thinkers and scholars outside India to collect their voice condemning those illegal arrests and the violation of human rights in India. We were amazed by the response from scholars around the world. Some of the signatories are the most influential thinkers of late 20th and 21st Century.
Here’s our public statement

A Letter to Sudha Bharadwaj, From the World of My Childhood

07/02/2019 Rani

The Wire / By Ragini Jha

“I have never expressed how much you have given me: perhaps your life and commitments, which were far less interesting than the games and songs in my childhood, resonated in more ways than I will understand.”
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Over 600 international scholars sign a statement of support for Dr. Anand Teltumbde

07/02/2019 Rani

Rally for Teltumbde and other activists held in Canada

Sabrangindia / By Sabrangindia

Some of the best-known luminaries of American and European academy have signed the statement expressing deep outrage at the blatant misuse of the law to persecute one of their much-admired colleagues, Dr. Teltumbde.
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Joint protest demonstration at Maharashtra Sadan in Delhi

05/02/2019 Rani

By Campaign Against State Repression On Rights Activists

A delegation from participating organisations and individuals submitted to the Resident Commissioner a representation to the Governor of Maharashtra demanding:
– Immediate release of the falsely incarcerated Reliance Energy workers.
– Immediate release of the lawyers, professors, poets and activists falsely arrested and implicated in the Bhima Koregaon.
– Immediate end to the use of draconian laws.

Illegal Arrest and Hounding of Prof. Anand Teltumbde w.r.t. Bhima Koregaon

05/02/2019 Rani

By Mumbai Rises to Save Democracy

PRESS STATEMENT

On Tuesday noted journalists P. Sainath and Niranjan Takle and noted author Urmila Pawar and activists from Mumbai, Jatin Desai and Feroze Mithirborewala condemned the police action against Prof. Anand Teltumbde and urged people to speak up against the undemocratic practices of the current government, which Mr Sainath said was criminalising dissent. They were speaking at a press conference organised by Mumbai Rises to Save Democracy (MRSD), a platform of over forty human rights organisations from in and around Mumbai on the “Illegal arrest and hounding of Prof. Anand Teltumbde w.r.t. the Bhima Koregaon case.”
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Press Conference on ‘Draconian Laws, Impunity & the Looming Threat of Arrests´

03/02/2019 Rani

Kis Kis Ko Qaid Karoge

Press Club of India, New Delhi
For over a year now, we have witnessed a political and legal battle over the right to dissent. It began with the right of dalits, bahujans, adivasis, Muslims, women and thousands from marginalised communities across the country to congregate at Koregaon on the banks of Bhima River near Pune to commemorate a battle fought two centuries ago. This, commemorated as an annual event, is a symbolic assertion of the historically oppressed Mahars against the dominant caste order of the Peshwas. This assertion by the most marginalised communities seemed to rankle the establishment.
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Press Conference: Draconian Laws, State Impunity and the Illegal Arrests

02/02/2019 Maya

Press Conference at Press Club of India, New Delhi on 2 February 2019.

NCHRO / by National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations

In blatant disregard to the order of the Supreme Court of India allowing Prof. Anand Teltumbde four weeks to approach the court for anticipatory bail, the Pune police arrested him from the Mumbai airport at the wee hours of 2 February 2019. Later in the day the Pune Sessions Court abiding by the SC order released Prof. Teltumbde and directed them to desist any action against him till 11 February 2019. The Campaign Against State Repression organised a press conference to denounce the malicious arrests of workers, lawyers and human rights defenders at the Press Club of India, New Delhi on 2 February 2019.
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