Hoffington Post / By Huffington Post
An association of activists and scholars said that Modi government has been “using its authority to silence any voice that challenges its domination and repression”.
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The Leaflet / Statement by “Fresh Perspectives, USA”
To defend the rights of the imprisoned and to prevent further illegal detentions, we, a group of social justice activists and scholars, came together and formed an association called Fresh Perspectives, USA. We have reached out to public intellectuals, critical thinkers and scholars outside India to collect their voice condemning those illegal arrests and the violation of human rights in India. We were amazed by the response from scholars around the world. Some of the signatories are the most influential thinkers of late 20th and 21st Century.
Here’s our public statement
Kractivist.org/ By Kavita Srivastava
The court today was attended by a large number of friends from Pune and the rest of the country. From distinguished senior counsel Indira Jaising to law college students, the group included several representatives from unions, Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha and NTUI including its president Com. Vasudev, representatives from the PUCL, Bahujan Aghadi, and of other women and environmental were present in the court. All the lawyers including Siddharth Patil, Prakash, Nihal Singh Rathod, Shalini Gera, Barun Kumar, Sadiq, Sanobar Kishtewar were present.
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The Wire / By Ragini Jha
“I have never expressed how much you have given me: perhaps your life and commitments, which were far less interesting than the games and songs in my childhood, resonated in more ways than I will understand.”
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Rally for Teltumbde and other activists held in Canada
Sabrangindia / By Sabrangindia
Some of the best-known luminaries of American and European academy have signed the statement expressing deep outrage at the blatant misuse of the law to persecute one of their much-admired colleagues, Dr. Teltumbde.
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By Campaign Against State Repression On Rights Activists
By Mumbai Rises to Save Democracy
PRESS STATEMENT
On Tuesday noted journalists P. Sainath and Niranjan Takle and noted author Urmila Pawar and activists from Mumbai, Jatin Desai and Feroze Mithirborewala condemned the police action against Prof. Anand Teltumbde and urged people to speak up against the undemocratic practices of the current government, which Mr Sainath said was criminalising dissent. They were speaking at a press conference organised by Mumbai Rises to Save Democracy (MRSD), a platform of over forty human rights organisations from in and around Mumbai on the “Illegal arrest and hounding of Prof. Anand Teltumbde w.r.t. the Bhima Koregaon case.”
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Kis Kis Ko Qaid Karoge
Press Club of India, New Delhi
For over a year now, we have witnessed a political and legal battle over the right to dissent. It began with the right of dalits, bahujans, adivasis, Muslims, women and thousands from marginalised communities across the country to congregate at Koregaon on the banks of Bhima River near Pune to commemorate a battle fought two centuries ago. This, commemorated as an annual event, is a symbolic assertion of the historically oppressed Mahars against the dominant caste order of the Peshwas. This assertion by the most marginalised communities seemed to rankle the establishment.
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NCHRO / by National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations
In blatant disregard to the order of the Supreme Court of India allowing Prof. Anand Teltumbde four weeks to approach the court for anticipatory bail, the Pune police arrested him from the Mumbai airport at the wee hours of 2 February 2019. Later in the day the Pune Sessions Court abiding by the SC order released Prof. Teltumbde and directed them to desist any action against him till 11 February 2019. The Campaign Against State Repression organised a press conference to denounce the malicious arrests of workers, lawyers and human rights defenders at the Press Club of India, New Delhi on 2 February 2019.
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We stand together strongly to condemn the false allegations and defamatory charges against Fr Stan Swamy by the Pune police, under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967 (UAPA). These charges frame him in the Bhima Koregaon case, call him an “urban naxalite”, and accuse him of plotting the assassination of the Prime Minister. They are patently false and defamatory.
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