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Renounced US citizenship to serve workers, tribals, Sudha Bharadwaj ‘odiously’ in jail

Renounced US citizenship to serve workers, tribals, Sudha Bharadwaj ‘odiously’ in jail

Counterview / by Atul & Sandeep Pandey

Professor Sudha Bharadwaj has been in jail since August 2018. She was taken into police custody on August 26, 2018 on suspicion of being involved in Maoist terror activities after Republic TV claimed that she had allegedly written a letter to Maoists and was conspiring to create public disorder and unrest in India.
The channel felt no shame in broadcasting that the elderly Professor was planning to murder the Prime-Minister of India. The police arrested her subsequently and she has been kept in jail continuously since then.
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We Demand VV Rao’s Immediate Release – More So As We spoke to him today

We Demand VV Rao’s Immediate Release – More So As We spoke to him today


Family members in May 2020

By VV Rao´s family members P Hemalata, P Sahaja, P Anala, P Pavana

Press Release, July 31, 2020

As per the Bombay High Court’s direction to Nanavati Hospital on July 28 to permit Varavara Rao’s family to visit him, subject to Hospital protocols and Government’s norms in respect of Covid patients, we, the family members were allowed to speak to him in a video conference, as protocols do not permit personal visits.
Thus through video conference we interacted with Varavara Rao for about twenty minutes in the afternoon of Friday, July 31. He looked much more frail and weak and his physical condition did not seem to be well. …

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Students’ Statement of Solidarity: Release Prof. Hany Babu

Students’ Statement of Solidarity: Release Prof. Hany Babu


Solidarity at Delhi University in 2019

By Students in Solidarity With Prof. Hany Babu / @WithHanyBabu

We, the 322 undersigned former and current students of Prof Hany Babu M.T., condemn his arrest by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday and stand in firm solidarity with him.

We, the undersigned former and current students of Prof Hany Babu M.T., condemn his arrest by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday and stand in firm solidarity with him. …

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Condemn the arbitrary arrest of Prof. Hany Babu!

Condemn the arbitrary arrest of Prof. Hany Babu!

By Campaign Against State Repression

Stop the witch-hunt of human rights defenders by the NIA!
Immediately release all political prisoners!

July 28th 2020: The Campaign Against State Repression (CASR) condemns the arrest of Professor Hany Babu MT at Mumbai by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with the Bhima Koregaon-Elgaar Parishad case. Despite the surging cases of COVID-19 in both Delhi and Mumbai, Prof. Babu of the Department of English in Delhi University was summoned as a witness and forced by the NIA to travel to Mumbai after being denied the option of video conferencing. Cooperating with the NIA since July 24th 2020, it quickly became clear that the questioning was merely a ruse to force Prof. Babu into providing false testimony against other persons and accepting allegations of being a functionary of the Maoists. …

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Where are the Humane People Among Those in Authority Today?

Where are the Humane People Among Those in Authority Today?

News Click / by Romila Thapar

Varavara Rao, 80 years old, became seriously ill. His illness was aggravated by the terrible living conditions in Indian prisons, not to mention the rank over-crowding in jails.
As citizens of India, we need to know what is happening to other Indians. We have the right to know what is happening to them. Why were these eleven Indians arrested?
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Solidarity from Greece: Save the life of Varavara Rao!

Solidarity from Greece: Save the life of Varavara Rao!

Statement by Greek activists, academics, writers and students

Save the life of the Indian writer and activist Varavara Rao!

Varavara Rao, a poet, a writer, an activist and an advocate of democratic and social rights for decades against the arbitrariness of Indian governments, has been jailed for almost two years along with ten other activists, lawyers, journalists, etc. …

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Why Varavara Rao matters

Why Varavara Rao matters

The New Indian Express / by T J S George

There was neither common sense nor political sense in putting Telugu poet and activist Varavara Rao in jail two years ago without trial and bail.
There was neither common sense nor political sense in putting Telugu poet and activist Varavara Rao in jail two years ago without trial and bail. He did support Naxalite excesses, but jailing a writer for that is equivalent to giving his writing more mileage. As it happened, authorities excelled themselves in foolishness.
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Writers, artists urge CJI Bobde and Uddhav Thackeray to release jailed poet Varavara Rao

Writers, artists urge CJI Bobde and Uddhav Thackeray to release jailed poet Varavara Rao


Solidarity poster

The Indian Express / by Express News Service

Hyderabad: As many as 520 Telugu poets, writers and artists on Wednesday urged Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde, Chief Justice of the Maharashtra High Court Dipankar Datta and the State’s Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to ensure the release of jailed revolutionary poet Varavara Rao and Delhi University professor GN Saibaba.
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