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UAPA: A frontal attack on democratic rights

UAPA: A frontal attack on democratic rights


Drawing by Arun Ferreira

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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Release activists in Bhima-Koregaon case, say Ambedkarites

Release activists in Bhima-Koregaon case, say Ambedkarites

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´ commemorates Mahaparinirvan Diwas

`Mumbai Rises to Save Democracy´ commemorates Mahaparinirvan Diwas

Mumbai Rises to Save Democracy

On 5th and 6th December 2018, Mumbai Rises to Save Democracy did campaigns at various spots inside Shivaji Park on the occasion of Mahaparinirvan Diwas (Memorial day). Our campaign was focused on the facts that despite attacks on Dalits in Bhima Koregaon on January 1, 2018, Hindutva leaders Manohar Bhide and Milind Ekbote roam scot-free. However, several human rights activists and workers from what was previously known as Reliance electric union, remain arrested for several months.
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Public meetings at Bhoomiheen Colony, Govindpuri (Delhi)

Public meetings at Bhoomiheen Colony, Govindpuri (Delhi)

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

Activists of 35 countries stand with Bhima Koregaon arrestees!

Activists of 35 countries stand with Bhima Koregaon arrestees!

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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Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha- Mazdoor Karyakarta Samiti (CMM-MKS): A Political Engagement of Sudha Bharadwaj

Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha- Mazdoor Karyakarta Samiti (CMM-MKS): A Political Engagement of Sudha Bharadwaj

Countercurrents / By Dillip Kumar Dash


One can debate and dispute with the entire matrix of formulations, activities and experiments happening there. And, that constitutes the history of politics. But, narratives of violence attempt to create setbacks for peoples’ struggle by creating a legitimacy crisis. Such efforts fail. Today, even the kids from the workers’ families shout slogans identifying themselves with Didi, the way some others did when Niyogi was condemned. The very slogan they give is Sudha Didi Naxali hai to hum bhi Naxali hain (if Sudha Didi is a Naxalite, we are also Naxalites).
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False allegations against Degree Prasad Chouhan

False allegations against Degree Prasad Chouhan

Statement by Frontline Defenders

Following the arrest of human rights defender Sudha Bharadwaj and four others on 26 October 2018, there is an imminent threat of false charges being brought against Dalit activist and human rights defender, Degree Prasad Chouhan. The police have already implicated the defender by name in a fake letter produced by them on 31 August 2018, which they claim was written by advocate Sudha Bharadwaj. There is a clear attempt by the police to smear the human rights defender as a Maoist militant and draw a false link between Degree Prasad Chouhan and the Bhima Koregaon violence which took place in January 2018.
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