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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!

02/09/2018 Rani

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

31/08/2018 Rani

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’

31/08/2018 Rani

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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AI: Crackdown On Activists Cannot Become The Order Of The Day

30/08/2018 Rani

Statement by Amnesty International India

The nationwide crackdown on activists, advocates and human rights defenders is disturbing and threatens core human rights values, Amnesty International India and Oxfam India today said jointly in response to the massive crackdown on rights activists in the country by the Maharashtra state police.
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PUDR: Joint Statement Against Continuing Arrests of Rights Activists

30/08/2018 Rani

Statement by Peoples Union for Democratic Rights

We, the undersigned, strongly oppose and condemn the illegal raids carried out in different cities, and arrests of Gautam Navlakha, Sudha Bharadwaj, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves and Varavara Rao by the Maharashtra Police on 28 th August 2018. These are only the most recent arrests in a continuing wave of repression spearheaded by the police at the behest of their political leaders and their communal and casteist agendas against people’s movements and human rights defenders. The targeting of these democratic rights activists and organizations is anattack on the poor and marginalized sections of our society on whose behalf these activists have been raising their voices.
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Mumbai rights groups issue joint statement condemning illegal raids, arrests of human rights activists by Pune police

29/08/2018 Rani

The Leaflet / Statment by civil society organisations/ groups/ collectives

“We, the undersigned civil society organisations/ groups/ collectives, have jointly convened this urgent Press Conference to condemn the appalling state actions of reprisals against noted human rights activists and intellectuals, which are clearly politically motivated and an attempt to stifle voices of dissent. The unjustified raids on and arbitrary arrests of the above public spirited individuals who have tirelessly worked for the cause of the poor and marginalized sections of society, are nothing but an attack on Indian democracy and an attempt to undermine the democratic fabric of our society.”
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WSS Statement On The Arrests of Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Gautam Navlakha and Varavara Rao

29/08/2018 Rani

Press Release
Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS) strongly condemns targeted attack on democratic rights activists, blatantly retributive actions of Maharashtra Police and demands immediate and unconditional release of all arrested activists, lawyers, writers and journalists.
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Campaign Against State Repression on Rights Activists

03/08/2018 Rani

Cgbasket / By Campaign Against State Repression on Rights Activists

The protest programme at Parliament Street in Delhi by Campaign Against State Repression on Rights Activists saw the participation of over four thousand people from Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu and all other parts of the country.
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Call: Kis Kis Ko Qaid Karoge…

03/08/2018 Rani

By Campaign Against State Repression On Rights Activists

Unite against State Repression on Peoples Movements! Repeal UAPA, NSA, AFSPA and other anti-people laws!

The solidarity extended by every section of society with those arrested in connection with Bhima-Koregaon, Advocate Surendra Gadling, Professor Shoma Sen and activists Sudhir Dhawale, Rona Wilson and Mahesh Raut, reveals the simmering rage amidst those of us who uphold the spirit of democracy. It is clear that state terror on social activists has now reached a stage where professionals and activists demanding democratic and constitutional rights for others are now being targeted.
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WSS: Condemning The Attack On Advocate Sudha Bharadwaj

08/07/2018 Rani

Statement by Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS)

We the undersigned wish to place on record our utter disgust, contempt and outrage at the latest in the series of machinations by Republic TV, working to its brief as a propagandist for the ongoing crusade against all those who take public stands in defence of democracy, secularism, human rights, Constitutional propriety and rule of law.