The Sudha Bharadwaj I Know
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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Protest: Mumbai Rises To Save Democracy
Delhi: We Are All Urban Naxals
Campaign Against State Repression on Rights Activists
Sep 5, 2018 – Delhi
Foto credits: Campaign Against State Repression on Rights Activists
Mumbai Rises to Protest Against Activists Arrested in the Name of ‘Urban Naxals’
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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Call: Kis Kis Ko Qaid Karoge… We Are All Urban Naxals, We Are All Gauri
Call by Campaign Against State Repression On Rights Activists
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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Maoist-link allegation absolute fabrication: Jesuit activist
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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Statement against police action on Prof. Anand Teltumbde and others – Students, Faculty and Alumni of IIT Kharagpur
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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CDRO: Condemn Arrests of Democratic Rights Activists Advocate Sudha Bharadwaj, Gautam Navlakha, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira and Varavara Rao and raids at homes of several others!
Sanhati India / Press Release by CDRO
Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations (CDRO) condemns the raid and arrests of democratic rights activists in Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Ranchi and Goa by Maharashtra police on 28th of August under the pretext of investigation in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case. Following the arrests of five academics, lawyers and activists in June, the second wave of arrests have expanded to include writers and journalists as well as the lawyers of those fighting for the release of those arrested in June.
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PUCL Statement Condemning Arrest of Public Intellectuals
Press Release
People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) strongly condemns and denounces the arrests under the draconian UAPA of:
1. Sudha Bharadwaj, PUCL National Secretary
2. Gautam Navalakha of PUDR,
3. Prof. Anand Teltumbde of CPDR,
4. Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira, advocates, and
5. VaraVara Rao, noted poet and rights activist.
PUCL also denounces the simultaneous multi-city raids conducted today, 28th August 2018 in a concerted and pre-meditated manner across the country at the premises of other eminent human rights activists.
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‘If they open their mouths in protest, they are labelled as Maoists’
Rediff News / Interview with Anand Teltumbde
‘…incarcerated in jails, ruining their entire families.’
‘You would see that Dalits who displayed so much agitation over the Bhima-Koregaon issue are effectively silenced by the arrests of their activists by the police.’
‘What can be a more pitiable state than this for a people who had just seen a ray of hope after darkness of millennia?’
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