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Videos: With Hany Babu: Political Voices for Social Justice / Free All BK Human Rights Defenders

12/09/2020 Maya

Video: With Prof. Hany Babu – Political Voices for Social Justice

By Dalit Camera

Webinar: With Prof. Hany Babu – Political Voices for Social Justice

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Dalit Camera

Speakers include:
Dr. Udit Raj, Ex-MP, National Spokesperson, AICC
T.K.S. Elangovan, MP Rajya Sabha, DMK
Prof. Manoj Kumar Jha, MP Rajya Sabha, RJD
K. Ambujakshan, Welfare Party of India
Anoop V.R, Indian Youth Congress
Rajkumar Saini, ex MP, Loktantra Suraksha Party
P. Rajeev, ex MP, CPI(M)
Annie Raja, CPI
K.K. Ragesh, MP Sabha CPI (M)
E.T. Mohammed Basheer, MP, Lok Sabha, IUML
Coordinator: Vinayakala Korvi
Chair: Premjish Achari
Curator and Art Critic
Concluding Remarks: N Sachin

Video: Free All Bhima Koregaon Human rights Defenders and Repeal Draconian UAPA

11/09/2020

By Baat Adhikar Ki

Webinar: Free All Bhima Koregaon Human rights Defenders and Repeal Draconian UAPA!

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Bahujan Sanvad (select videos)

When The Dust Settles: An Ode To India’s Incarcerated

05/09/2020 Rani

Drawing by Arun Ferreira

Live Law / by Zaid Sufi Wahidi

This story has been told before. But it is important that it be told at every given opportunity. This is the story of how the state subverted the rule of law to stifle dissent. This is a story of how the judiciary in part – abetted – and in part – thwarted the state’s attempt to incarcerate those who dared to speak against its excesses. Above all, it is a story of the resilience and unrelenting courage of those incarcerated.
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UAPA: Descent from Rule of Law to Barbarism

04/09/2020 Rani

The Leaflet / by Ravi Nair

India claims that its constitutional checks and balances prevent the abuse of counterterrorism laws; the evidence, including cases of false imprisonment and torture, suggests that these checks and balances are insufficient not only to protect civilians from abuse under counterterrorism laws but to protect them from terrorism itself.
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Video: UAPA – Legal Mechanism of Crushing Dissent

29/08/2020 Rani

Opia Films – PUCL Webinar

en | 13:54min | 2020

Advocate Rebecca John’s powerful talk on UAPA as a tool of repression and how “process is the real punishment” in UAPA cases. At PUCL’s webinar “TWO YEARS AND COUNTING… Revisiting the Bhima Koregaon Conspiracy Case” on August 29, 2020.

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NAPM stands in solidarity against state repression of activists, lawyers and progressive persons

28/08/2020 Rani

By National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM)

Release all political prisoners, including Sudha Bharadwaj who has been imprisoned for 2 years!
Arrest the real criminals of ‘Bhima Koregaon’!
Repeal the UAPA Law!

28th August 2020: In India’s dark history of human rights violations, 28th August 2018 has become a very important day. On this day, Sudha Bharadwaj was arrested by Pune police from her home in Faridabad. On the same day, Gautam Navlakha from Delhi, Arun Ferreira and Vernon Gonsalves from Mumbai and Varavara Rao from Hyderabad were also arrested. Although Gautam Navlakha was granted relief from arrest for a while by the Delhi High Court, he was also arrested a few months ago. In the ‘Bhima Koregaon case’, baseless and false facts have been used to fabricate a criminal case. …

More than 400 students, faculty members sci-tech institutes demand bail for Varavara Rao, GN Saibaba

18/08/2020 Rani

Hindustan Times / by Priyanka Sahoo

More than 400 students, faculty members, and alumni from various science and technology institutes in the country have signed a petition to the Central government, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), and Chief Justice of India (CJI) SA Bobde, demanding bail and medical care for Varavara Rao and GN Saibaba, who are in jail for their alleged Communist Party of India (CPI)-Maoist links, and the release of other political prisoners.
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Varavara Rao Bail Plea: COVID No Excuse for Political Prisoners?

23/07/2020 Rani

+++ Matters concerning Mr. VV Rao’s interim bail appeal, Dr. Anand’s and Vernon’s Covid 19 test did not reach hearing in the Bombay HC today. Next date could be July 28 +++

The Quint / by Shorbori Purkayastha

Podcast: Is it ethical for Bhima Koregaon accused Varavara Rao to be refused interim bail in this pandemic?
Should we be looking at heath conditions or the gravity of offense for prisoners seeking interim bail on health grounds in view of the pandemic?
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Refusal of bail to Sudha Bharadwaj is based on inadmissible evidence

20/07/2020 Rani

The following article refers to the bail dismissal of Oct 15, 2019. The ongoing bail hearings are in the context of medical bail.

It is unjust that refusal of bail to Sudha Bharadwaj is based on inadmissible evidence

The Indian Express / by Colin Gonsalves

The observation of the Court in Bharadwaj’s case that the decision as to whether a document is admissible in evidence or not will have to wait for the trial stage is unbelievable. Courts routinely exclude inadmissible documents or statements (such as hearsay) from consideration while deciding bail applications.
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How The UAPA Is Perverting The Idea Of Justice

16/07/2020 Rani

Article 14 / by Abhinav Sekhri

Varavara Rao. Sudha Bharadwaj. Devangana Kalita. SafooraZargar. Scores of activists and students, all labelled criminals, all charged under a law whose legal processes ensure that proof of their innocence or guilt is rendered irrelevant.
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Travesty of Justice – Persecution of Human Rights Defenders

06/06/2020 Rani

By Civil Liberties Committee (AP &Telangana State)

We cannot forget 2018. In fact that the violence in Bhimakoregaon in Maharashtra on January 2018 was a planned and organized by the RSS and other Hindhutva outfits in order to foil Edgar Parishat, a conglomeration of dalits, bahujans and minorities who gathered in a single platform. The Parishad proclaimed to fight against fascist hindutva forces and reclaim Constitution and its ideals. In the months of June and August the Maharashtra Police raided selectively the houses of human rights and social activists across the country.
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