‘UPA and NDA are two sides of the same coin’: Sudhir Dhawale
First published: May 27, 2014
Round Table India / Interview with Sudhir Dhawale by Round Table India
Round Table India spoke to writer and political activist Sudhir Dhawale in Mumbai last week, after his release from a long term spent in prison due to false charges of being involved in Naxal activities. Arrested in January 2011, he was acquitted last week by Gondia’s sessions court after the police failed to produce substantial evidence against him.
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Why Sudhir Dhawale’s acquittal in a 2014 case of Naxal involvement is relevant to the Bhima Koregaon arrests
The Caravan Magazine / By Arshu John
On 6 June, in a joint operation across Delhi, Nagpur and Mumbai, the Pune Police arrested five individuals for allegedly being “top urban Maoist operatives” who incited the violence in Bhima Koregaon—a town in Maharashtra—this January. Sudhir Dhawale, one of the five accused, is a prominent Mumbai-based activist who has worked extensively on Dalit rights. He has previously been arrested, and subsequently acquitted, in another case of alleged involvement with Maoist rebels.
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Indian journalist Sudhir Dhawale discusses his release from prison
First published: Jun 3, 2014
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)/ By Sumit Galhotra
After languishing in jail for 40 months, Mumbai-based journalist and activist Sudhir Dhawale has walked free. Dhawale was the only journalist in jail in India in late 2013, according to CPJ’s annual prison census. With his release, there are currently no other journalists behind bars in the country for work-related reasons.
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Why activists like Sudhir Dhawale are seen as a threat by the BJP govt
Catchnews / By Rajeev Khanna
The arrest of Sudhir Dhawale, Surendra Gadling, Shoma Sen, Rona Wilson and Mahesh Raut in the Bhima-Koregaon case by Maharashtra Police under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, has stunned the civil society. They have been termed as ‘urban’ or just plain Naxalites for the ever gullible self-styled nationalists and their arrest would form a part of the political debates where nationalism is the flavour.
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Interview with Sudhir Dhawale: ‘No One Can Kill The Dream For Democracy’
First published: Jan 11, 2016
Sanhati / By Anjani Kumar
Already in 2011, Sudhir Dhawale was arrested under several sections of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and then spent nearly four years in jail. He was acquitted of all the charges filed against him in court. Over the four years that he spent in jail, he was denied nearly every basic human right. On the 23rd of May 2015, he spoke at the ‘Convention against Silencing Democracy & Criminalizing Dissent’ organized by the Committee for the Defence and Release of Dr. GN Saibaba in Delhi. Anjani Kumar spoke to him on the 24th of May on various issues.
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Labelling Dalits and Adivasis as Maoists is an old state strategy for crushing dissent and criticism
Scroll.in / By Anand Teltumbde
In ‘Republic of Caste’, published this year, Anand Teltumbde writes about how Maoist and Naxalite labels make Dalits and Adivasis even more vulnerable.
Despite its mode of expression, the much-maligned Naxalite movement is essentially an act of dissent, a public protest, a fact occasionally acknowledged by the government itself, although the actions of the latter never reflect this admission.
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Sudhir Dhawale – The Radical Ambedkarite
Mumbai Mirror / By Ramu Ramanathan
He is the eternal protestor. He protested when Dr Binayak Sen was in prison. In February 2017, he was part of the Rohit Vemula protest by Mumbai Students Solidarity at the Mumbai University. He also protested the three Dalit murders in Javkhede Khalasa-Kasarwadi in Pathardi Taluka.
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The Nava Peshwai Terror against the Dalits and State Repression
Statement by Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS)
WSS condemns the wave of state repression following the peaceful commemoration of the Ambedkarite community on the 200th anniversary of the battle of Bhima Koregaon. The most recent wave of repression is a set of raids without a warrant conducted simultaneously at 6 am on 17 April, 2018, upon the homes of Kabir Kala Manch activists Rupali Jadhav, Jyoti Jagtap, Ramesh Gaichor, Sagar Gorkhe and Dhawala Dhengle in Pune; Republican Panther activists Sudhir Dhavale and Harshali Potdar in Mumbai; and Nagpur-based lawyer Surendra Gadling and Delhi-based CRPP activist Rona Wilson.
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Cops raid several Kabir Kala Manch activists’ houses
Pune Mirror / by Prachee Kulkarni
Office of Dalit party, homes of leftists also raided across the three cities; Pune CP claims Elgar Parishad as reason, while CM says drive against Naxal movement.
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