Sudha Bharadwaj, a Lawyer and Person I Am Proud to Salute
The Wire / By K.S.V. Krishnan
A retired army officer writes about his association with Sudha Bharadwaj.
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Video: No More Fake Charges!
hindi | en subs. | 11 min
As part of an India-wide police operation on 28th August, activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Gautam Navlakha and Varavara Rao were arrested and the homes of many more raided. Sudha Bharadwaj is a trade unionist and lawyer. The following video documents voices and protests from her working area in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh immediately after her arrest.
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Video: “Fighting in the Courts and on the Streets.”
en | 1:33 min | 2016
Azim Premji University Colloquium
Sudha Bharadwaj talks about “Fighting in the Courts and on the Streets: The Situation of Precarious Workers” as part of the Azim Premji University Colloquium Series.
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Nearly 190 IIT Kanpur faculty, alumni demand release of Sudha Bharadwaj, other activists
Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff
They said the charges against her were concocted and seem to be ‘an attempt to malign her reputation and discredit her causes’.
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Chhattisgarh: No more fake charges!
As part of an India-wide police operation on 28th August activists Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, Arun Ferreira, Gautam Navlakha and Varavara Rao were arrested and the homes of many more raided. Sudha Bharadwaj is a trade unionist and lawyer. The following pictures document protests from her working area in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh immediately after her arrest.
Foto credits: CMM archive
“I Haven’t Earned Money, I Have Earned People”: Sudha Bharadwaj’s Daughter Pens Emotional Note
The Wire / By Maaysha
“If fighting for the rights of Adivasis, fighting for workers and peasants, fighting against repression and exploitation and giving up one’s whole life for them is being a Naxalite, then I guess Naxalites are pretty good!”
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How Chhatisgarh’s Contract Workers Overcame the Odds
Sabrang / By Sudha Bharadwaj
Published February 8, 2016
A deep commitment to collective rights from the local union, international solidarity and grit ensured that the contract workers of Chhattisgarh inked a remarkable settlement, this January.
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Sudha Bharadwaj: Arrested activist who led legal fight against Adani’s mines
The Week / By By Deepak Tiwari
When all civil society and labour organisations of Chhattisgarh gathered in front of Burha Talab lake in Raipur last Sunday to protest against the arrests of five human rights activists, Rajeshwari had especially come from Ambikapur, 380km from Raipur, to express solidarity against the arrest of Sudha Bharadwaj.
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The Sudha Bharadwaj I Know
The Indian Express / By Parijata Bharadwaj, Guneet Ahuja, V Sawarkar
Three young lawyers on the arrested Chhattisgarh-based lawyer and activist Sudha Bharadwaj.
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Maoist-link allegation absolute fabrication: Jesuit activist
Matters India / by Matters India Reporter
Ranchi: An 82-year-old Jesuit activist on September 3 dismissed as “complete concoction and absolute falsehood” a police allegation that he has links with Maoists and banned organizations.
Father Stan Lourdusamy was among nine human rights activists who were raided in a pre-dawn simultaneous action across several cities on August 28 by the officials of the Maharashtra police’s Crime Branch. The special police team from the western Indian state arrested five people on charges of supporting Maoists engaged in anti-national activities, including a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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