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Convention Against the Politics of Repression of People’s Movements 31st October 2018 / Raipur, Chattisgarh

Convention Against the Politics of Repression of People’s Movements 31st October 2018 / Raipur, Chattisgarh

Call by Organizing Comittee

… The Bhima Koregaon case marks a turning point in the use of state repression. An event to celebrate the valour of Dalits and OBCs is sought to be delegitimized by casting overtones of extraneous Maoist activity. Ten prominent human rights defenders, lawyers, professors, cultural, social and political activists, while homes of ten others have been raided. These arrests represent something more sinister – that the legal work of human rights defenders (trade union activists, anti-displacement activists, lawyers, poets and writers etc.) can be criminalized and deemed as terrorist activities that require the slapping of the draconian UAPA; and that all space for democratic dissent can be usurped by the State in the name of ‘Public and National Security’.

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The Court Should Not Have to Bow Before the Unreasonableness of the UAPA

The Court Should Not Have to Bow Before the Unreasonableness of the UAPA

The Wire / By Ashok Prasad

It was the ridiculousness of the charges, the doubtful nature of the evidence and the public character and reputations of the people arrested, that made it clear that the entire sequence of events is an attempt to stifle voices of dissent in a particularly diabolical manner. Thus, acquital is the only just option.
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Interview: Arun Ferreira: ‘The high walls keep out realities’

Interview: Arun Ferreira: ‘The high walls keep out realities’

First published: Jan 6, 2016

Frontline / By Frontline Staff

Arun Ferreira spent six years in Nagpur jail as a political prisoner. He was arrested in 2007 for alleged naxalite and anti-national activities under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. Eleven cases were registered against him. He fought a relentless legal battle to prove that the charges were false and completely fabricated. In January 2014, he was acquitted in all the cases for lack of substantial evidence. At the time of his release, he told Frontline: “My case is really nothing special. The real issue is the way political prisoners are handled and the blatant violations of the human rights of all prisoners.”
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Why the UAPA must go

Why the UAPA must go

India Today / By Jawahar Raja

The point of these extraordinary laws is not to punish the terrorist, the seditionist, the goonda; it is to keep the whistleblower, the dissenter, the inconvenient in jail for as long as the trial lasts.
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Call: Kis Kis Ko Qaid Karoge… We Are All Urban Naxals, We Are All Gauri

Call: Kis Kis Ko Qaid Karoge… We Are All Urban Naxals, We Are All Gauri

Call by Campaign Against State Repression On Rights Activists

 

Friends,
The situation in the country today is that of Emergency. In fact, it may be worse. Anyone who criticises the government is branded Naxal or Maoist and, on this basis, their homes are raided, they are arrested and sent to jail. Using the violence led by Brahmanical forces at Bhima-Koregaon as an excuse, the BJP-RSS is trying to silence the people raising questions about the fundamental rights of common people, be it issues of unemployment, condition of impoverished farmers, atrocities committed on dalits, or the murder of people belonging to minority communities all over the country.
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