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Jail authorities in India continue to deny prisoners the right to intellectual pursuit

Jail authorities in India continue to deny prisoners the right to intellectual pursuit

Scroll.in / By Aritra Bhattacharya

Lawyers for Surendra Gadling, under arrest in the Bhima Koregaon case, say their client was denied access to reading material, including SC judgments and books.
On September 13, six alleged Maoists lodged in the Yerawada jail in Pune, Maharashtra, participated in a one-day token hunger strike. The date chosen was significant. Freedom fighter Jatin Das had died on the 63rd day of his hunger strike on that day in 1929.
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Right To Freedom Of Expression

Right To Freedom Of Expression

Outlook / By Preethi Nair

Prof Shoma Sen was arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, as were activists Rona Wilson, Mahesh Raut and Sudhir Dhawale, and lawyer Surendra Gadling as part of the police probe into the violence at Bhima-Koregaon.
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Why the State Is Attempting to Link Dalit Resistance to Maoism

Why the State Is Attempting to Link Dalit Resistance to Maoism

The Wire / Sowjanya Tamalapakula

The Muslim question has been dealt with by stigmatising Muslims as ‘anti-national’ and the ‘other’ to the larger Hindu community. Stigmatising Dalits in a similar fashion is not plausible because Dalits are an essential part of the ‘Hindu community’.
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Video: Advocate Susan Abraham on #BhimaKoregaonArrests, UAPA

Video: Advocate Susan Abraham on #BhimaKoregaonArrests, UAPA

en | 15 min | 2018

The Leaflet / By KRITIKA A

Advocate Susan Abraham was one among the rights activists whose house was raided on the morning of August 28. She talks to The Leaflet about the raids, their connection to the Bhima Koregaon chain of events and the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act which has been used to incarcerate the rights activists.
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Call: Kis Kis Ko Qaid Karoge… We Are All Urban Naxals, We Are All Gauri

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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Anatomy of a clampdown and the history of a long oppression

Anatomy of a clampdown and the history of a long oppression

The Leaflet / By Kritika A

The arrests of human rights activists and lawyers on August 28 and earlier on June 6, 2018 are all part of a wider theatre of Hindutva’s state-sponsored repression on those demanding democratic rights and freedoms for the most marginalised of Indian citizens. What began with Bhima-Koregaon had actually begun long back, with the atrocities against Dalits and Adivasis crossing the political threshold, such as those in Una and Saharanpur, as well as the ‘institutional murder’ of Rohith Vemula in January 2016.
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Campaign Against State Repression on Rights Activists

Campaign Against State Repression on Rights Activists

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…

Call: Kis Kis Ko Qaid Karoge…

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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