Arun Ferreira – free them all

Allowing the State to Designate Someone as a ‘Terrorist’ Without Trial is Dangerous

02/08/2019 Maya

The Wire / by Siddharth Varadarajan

The UAPA Amendment Bill is the single most dangerous piece of legislation the country has ever seen.
Should government officials and politicians – even upstanding democrats with a long record of respecting the rule of law like home minister Amit Shah – be trusted with the power to designate an individual as a “terrorist”, that too, without that person being tried and convicted?
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RSS circulates booklet targeting ‘Urban Naxals’

22/07/2019 Maya

Sabrangindia.in / by Deborah Grey

A common characteristic of right wing supremacists in India appears to be their extremely limited and rather vapid imagination. This is best illustrated in a booklet published by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The booklet is an out and out smear campaign against some of India’s most respected intellectuals and human rights activists. However this sinister agenda is driven by a rather banal set of stories.
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Modi’s revenge – the clampdown on human rights leaders in India grows

14/07/2019 Maya

Daily Maverick / by Mark Heywood

The democratic space for human rights activism in India is rapidly being closed down by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Poster-Campaign: #1YearBhimaKoregaonArrest

06/06/2019 Rani

Spl UAPA Court Allows Copy Of Forensic Reports To Be Given To Accused Surendra Gadling and Arun Ferreira [Read Order]

19/05/2019 Rani

Live Law / By Nitish Kashyap

The Special Court designated under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) in Pune has ordered copies of forensic reports submitted along with the police report, to be furnished to human rights lawyer Surendra Gadling and activist Arun Ferreira, accused in the Bhima-Koregaon case.
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Accused seek mirror images of cloned copies of data seized by police

14/05/2019 Rani

The Indian Express / By Express News Service

They had earlier argued that the police had not followed the proper procedure in submitting the electronic data before the court, following which the special court had then directed the accused to file an application in this regard.
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Bombay high court to hear bail plea of 2 activists accused in Bhima Koregaon violence

06/04/2019 Rani

Hindustan Times / K A Y Dodhiya

The hearing on the bail applications of activist Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira – arrested in connection with the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence – has been adjourned to April 16, after the Bombay high court (HC), on Friday, said it would hear all matters pertaining to the incident together.
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‘Arrested activists were mobilising Dalits to overthrow Centre,’ claim police

13/03/2019 Rani

Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff

The Maharashtra Police on Wednesday told the Bombay High Court that the activists who were arrested in connection with the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence were mobilising Dalits in a bid to “overthrow the government”, PTI reported. The police claimed the coup was planned by the Communist Party of India (Maoist).
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Who is Arun Ferreira?

25/02/2019 Rani

By India Civil Watch

Arun Ferreira is a human rights lawyer from Mumbai, India. He is a member of the Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights (CPDR) and the Indian Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL). He studied at Mumbai’s St. Xavier’s College where he developed a strong social conscience, and organised the institution’s canteen workers to demand better work conditions. After college, he worked with slum dwellers in Mumbai before becoming a community organiser in Vidarbha (rural Maharashtra state). …

Supplementary chargesheet brings little new information to the case

23/02/2019 Rani

Scroll.in/ By Mridula Chari

A new accused has been added to the case, along with claims that poet Varavara Rao helped to procure weapons from Nepal.
The Pune police on Thursday filed a supplementary chargesheet against four human rights activists, poet Varavara Rao, lawyer Arun Ferreira, and human rights activists Vernon Gonsalves and Sudha Bharadwaj.
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