As part of an India-wide police operation on 28th August activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Gautam Navlakha and Varavara Rao were arrested and the homes of many more raided. Sudha Bharadwaj is a trade unionist and lawyer. The following pictures document protests from her working area in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh immediately after her arrest.
The Week / By By Deepak Tiwari
When all civil society and labour organisations of Chhattisgarh gathered in front of Burha Talab lake in Raipur last Sunday to protest against the arrests of five human rights activists, Rajeshwari had especially come from Ambikapur, 380km from Raipur, to express solidarity against the arrest of Sudha Bharadwaj.
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Groundxero / By Groundxero
Workers, activists, students, lawyers and human rights organisations come together in Mumbai on the first death anniversary of Gauri Lankesh, to protest against state homicides, state violence and state-sponsored socio-political oppression at every level in India. “Whom all will you arrest? Kis kis ko qaid karoge?” – the protestors demand.
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The Indian Express / By Parijata Bharadwaj, Guneet Ahuja, V Sawarkar
Three young lawyers on the arrested Chhattisgarh-based lawyer and activist Sudha Bharadwaj.
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Campaign Against State Repression on Rights Activists
Sep 5, 2018 – Delhi
Truth Deserves You Production / By Satyen K. Bordoloi
en / hindi / marathi | 23min | 2018
Hundreds of activists of different organizations and ordinary citizens turned up at Dadar Station, Mumbai on Teachers Day and the first anniversary of the assassination of Gauri Lankesh, to protest against the targeting of activists and human rights workers in the name of ‘urban naxals’.
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Friends,
The situation in the country today is that of Emergency. In fact, it may be worse. Anyone who criticises the government is branded Naxal or Maoist and, on this basis, their homes are raided, they are arrested and sent to jail. Using the violence led by Brahmanical forces at Bhima-Koregaon as an excuse, the BJP-RSS is trying to silence the people raising questions about the fundamental rights of common people, be it issues of unemployment, condition of impoverished farmers, atrocities committed on dalits, or the murder of people belonging to minority communities all over the country.
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Matters India / by Matters India Reporter
Ranchi: An 82-year-old Jesuit activist on September 3 dismissed as “complete concoction and absolute falsehood” a police allegation that he has links with Maoists and banned organizations.
Father Stan Lourdusamy was among nine human rights activists who were raided in a pre-dawn simultaneous action across several cities on August 28 by the officials of the Maharashtra police’s Crime Branch. The special police team from the western Indian state arrested five people on charges of supporting Maoists engaged in anti-national activities, including a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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KAFLIA / By Nivedita Menon
We, the undersigned students, faculty and others from IIT Kharagpur are shocked with the treatment that the police forces have meted out to our ex-colleague, Prof. Anand Teltumbde and other intellectuals. His residence in Goa, where he is working as a Senior Professor and Chair, Big Data Analytics at Goa Institute of Management (GIM), was intruded by the police forces without permission in his absence. This police action was part of the large scale raids and arrests of eminent scholars, intellectuals and lawyers across the country on Tuesday.
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