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Loneliness of VV Rao, Anand Teltumbde, Sudha Bharadwaj tells about state and us

18/07/2020 Rani

The Indian Express / by Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Anand Teltumbde, one of India’s important and courageous thinkers, just turned 70 in prison. He, along with Sudha Bharadwaj and others, is being held in the Bhima Koregaon case. They are being repeatedly denied bail. Varavara Rao, poet and Maoist intellectual, contracted COVID and has been subject to degrading and humiliating conditions at the age of 80. The overwhelming power that the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act gives to the state, the sheer impunity with which government can treat this group of accused, the Kafkaesque role of the judiciary in denying bail and making procedural safeguards ineffective, and the deafening political silence on their detention, all warrant deeper reflection.
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Solidarity in Berlin, Palermo, Milan (July 2020)

NHRC orders: Provide Vara Vara Rao best possible medical treatment

17/07/2020 Rani

By National Human Rights Commission

NHRC passes order directing the state government to provide VV Rao best possible medical treatment at super speciality private hospital without further delay at state costs.

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NHRC Asks Maharashtra Govt To Give Best Possible Treatment To Varavara Rao In A Reputed Private Super Speciality Hospital

Live Law / by Nitish Kashyap

Taking note of the difficulties faced by jailed Telugu poet Varavara Rao, who tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday, the National Human Rights Commission on Friday observed that it was necessary that the Maharashtra Government should give him “the best possible treatment in a reputed super specialty private hospital without any further delay”.
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Release Sudha Bharadwaj, top academic, critic of govt lawlessness: Petition to Thackeray

17/07/2020 Rani

Counterview / by Counterview Desk

Through a petition to Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, Prof Sandeep Pandey, the Magsaysay award winning social activist, along with university academics, students and other activists*, have sought wider support for immediate release of Prof Sudha Bharadwaj, in jail since August 2018 for her alleged involvement in Maoist terror activists following a Republic TV report said she was conspiring to create public disorder and unrest in India.
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By ignoring health of jailed poet Varavara Rao, state is imposing capital punishment without trial

17/07/2020 Rani

Scroll.in / by Sruthisagar Yamunan

The judiciary’s failure to protect his rights to medical treatment is disturbing.
In December 1990, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution titled “Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners”. Among the 10 principles that the UN said should be enforced “impartially” is this: “Prisoners shall have access to the health services available in the country without discrimination on the grounds of their legal situation.”
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CLC & Left Parties Demand Unconditional Release of Public Intellectuals arrested in BK Case & Prof. Saibaba

17/07/2020 Rani

CDRO Online / by Coordination of Democratic Rights Organaisation

A round table meeting was held on 14th July 2020, at the Godavarikhani, Ambedkar Bhavan on the issue of arrested intellectuals in Bhima-Koregaon case. This meeting was attended by different public associations, Civil Liberties Committee (CLC), leftist parties like CPI, CPIM, CPI-ML New Democracy and Dalit groups like All India Ambedkar Youth Association (AIAYA), Madiga Reservation PorataSamithi (MRPS) and Mala Mahanadu.
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Neurologists will examine VV Rao / VV Rao tests positive for Covid-19 / Shocking Treatment at JJ Hospital

17/07/2020 Rani

NEUROLOGISTS CALLED TO EXAMINE 80-YR-OLD POET-ACTIVIST

News 18 / by PTI

Jailed writer and activist Varavara Rao, undergoing treatment at St George Hospital after testing positive for COVID-19, is also suffering from neurological problem and specialist doctors have been called to treat him, hospital officials said on Friday.
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VARAVARA RAO TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID-19

Hindustan Times / by HT Correspondent

Poet and activist Varavara Rao, who was lodged at Taloja Jail as an undertrial in connection with the Elgar Parishad case, tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday. Rao, 81, is asymptomatic but will be treated with symptomatic drugs. His family has alleged criminal negligence by state authorities.
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SHOCKING TREATMENT OF VARA VARA RAO AT JJ HOSPITAL

15/07/2020

By Human Rights Defenders´ Alert – India

Human Rights Defenders Alert urges NHRC to intervene immediately. VV’s family in Mumbai since yesterday has been horrified to find him in a pathetic & unattended condition at hospital.

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CASR: Release Varavara Rao immediately! Demand the release of all political prisoners!

16/07/2020 Rani

By Campaign Against State Repression

The Campaign Against State Repression (CASR) demands the immediate release of the revolutionary poet Varavara Rao who has tested positive for COVID-19. As per information received by family members, Varavara Rao’s health has rapidly deteriorated over the last couple of weeks. This is also evidenced by his weakening physical state, incoherent speech and inability to independently perform daily or bodily functions. After persistent efforts of family members in highlighting his health condition, the jail authorities, who had denied these concerns, were compelled to shift Varavara Rao to JJ Hospital in Mumbai on July 13th. However, his health further worsened as hospital authorities failed to care for him. They even forcibly sent away his family for raising concerns about him being abandoned on a dirty and unsanitary stretcher. Today, he has tested positive for COVID-19 and has been shifted to Saint George Hospital, Mumbai.
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Mumbai Rises: Life of Prisoners put at risk during pandemic! Release All Political Prisoners!

16/07/2020 Rani

By Mumbai Rises To Save Democracy

Life of Prisoners put at risk during pandemic !
VARAVARA RAO tests positive for Covid 19!
Demand Immediate Release of All Political Prisoners!
STOP IMPRISONING DURING PANDEMIC!

People’s Poet Varavara Rao has been shifted to the Saint George Hospital today after he tested positive for Coronavirus. The 80 year old poet has been jailed along with 10 others activists in a false case post the attacks at Bhima Koregaon in 2018. …

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More than 500 appeal CM Uddhav Thackeray to release BK accused

16/07/2020 Rani

Karctivist.org/ by Kractivist

Mumbai, July 16, 2020 – More than 500 individuals including activists academics, lawyers and Students endorsed petition to Chief Minister Maharashtra Uddhav Bal Thackeray demanding interim bail amidst Covid 19 Pandemic for the Bhima Koregaon 11.
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Workers Demand: Free Sudha Bharadwaj!

Chhattisgarh, July 14

Gautam Navlakha taken to JJ hospital for check-up / Varavara Rao remains admitted

16/07/2020 Rani

The Indian Express / by Express News Service

Meanwhile, writer-poet Varavara Rao, another accused in the case, remains admitted at JJ hospital after he was shifted from Taloja Central Jail in Navi Mumbai two days ago. Doctors said he is stable and responding to treatment.
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