Hindustan Times / By HT Correspondent
Retired Supreme Court judge and one of the organisers of Elgaar Parishad, Justice BG Kolse Patil speaks to HT regarding the arrests of civil rights activists.
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Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff
They said they were ‘alarmed’ at the action against a public intellectual who ‘has made selfless contributions to the nation’.
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Peoples Union of Democratic Rights / By PUDR
Press Release
PUDR welcomes the release on bail of four workers of Reliance Energy/ Infrastructure Ltd. (REIL) and trade union activists implicated under numerous sections of the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) for alleged Maoist links. The workers were released today on default bail after the 17 December order of the Bombay High Court setting aside the extension of time granted to ATS Mumbai to file the chargesheet in April 2018. Months before 6 June and 28 August, when 10 rights activists were arrested under UAPA on fabricated connections to the Bhima Koregaon violence, workers at RIEL were the first to be targeted for alleged ‘Maoist’ links at Elgaar Parishad.
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Sanhati India / By Persecuted Prisoners’ Solidarity Committee
We are going through one of the most repressive times in post-Independent India where the fundamental rights of expression and the right to form any organization or association that can question government policies or fight for rights of the people have been criminalized. The government, armed with acts like Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), is coming down heavily on all those standing up for the rights of economically and socially marginalized sections of people.
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The Hindu / by Suyash Karangutkar
Ahead of the first anniversary of the Bhima-Koregaon riots, Ambedkarities from across the State gathered in Shivaji Park on Thursday and criticised the government for arrests of the activists and demanded that an end be put to dirty politics to divide the country.
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Mumbai Rises to Save Democracy
By Campaign Against State Repression On Rights Activists
We organised several public meetings today at Bhoomiheen Colony, Govindpuri. Members from different organization talked about divisive political scenario being set up in the country. Further we spoke about the tactics of using black draconian laws to silent the dissenting voices of people.
We reteriate our demands to:
#RepealAllDraconianLaws
#ReleaseAllPoliticalPrisoners
Documented by Mumbai Rises to Save Democracy
Today we live under a fascist state which kills with impunity and will go to any lengths to preserve existing structures of inequality fuelled by neoliberal, communal, capitalist, patriarchal and casteist forces, to protect the interests of the big corporations, the dominant classes and castes.
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