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MPs demanding intervention for Varavara Rao and other accused [read letters]

MPs demanding intervention for Varavara Rao and other accused [read letters]

By Meena Kandasamy

Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) Binoy Viswam writes to Uddhav Thackeray joining the other MPs in demanding adequate medical care and intervention for 81-year-old poet Varavara Rao, the other Bhima Koregaon accused and G.N. Saibaba.

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14 MPs WRITE TO THACKERAY RAISING CONCERN AT DETERIORATING HEALTH OF VARAVARA RAO [read letter]

19/06/2020

Maktoob / by Editorial Desk

In a letter to Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, more than ten parliamentarians have registered their grave concern at the deteriorating health of the 81-year-old people’s poet Varavara Rao, now lodged in Taloja Jail under the Bhima Koregaon case.
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Special court hears Varavara Rao´s and Shoma Sen´s bail plea

Special court hears Varavara Rao´s and Shoma Sen´s bail plea

19/06/2020

By The Real Anand Teltumbde / @TeltumbdeA

Court Updates June 19: Hearing for VV Rao’s Bail Application further extended to 26 June. For Shoma Sen the court has granted permission to the lawyers to speak to her over a whatsapp call for 10 minutes to better understand her health condition. The court has scheduled the hearing for Sen’s plea on June 26 as well.

SPECIAL COURT HEARS VARAVARA RAO’S INTERIM BAIL PLEA

20/06/2020

Hindustan Times / by Charul Shah

Veteran Telugu poet P Varavara Rao’s plea for interim bail was heard on Friday by the special judge, almost a month after Rao moved the special court seeking interim bail on May 15 … Meanwhile lawyers for Dr Shoma Sen obtained permission to speak to her through video call before making submissions on the interim bail filed for her.
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To dissent is not a crime! Concerned citizens call for the release of activists on humanitarian grounds

To dissent is not a crime! Concerned citizens call for the release of activists on humanitarian grounds

Indian Cultural Forum / by ICF Team

We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned about the health of 11 respected fellow citizens:
1. Mr. Varavara Rao
2. Ms. Sudha Bhardwaj
3. Ms. Shoma Sen
4. Mr. Anand Teltumbde
5. Mr. Gautam Navlakha
6. Mr. Arun Ferreira
7. Mr. Vernon Gonsalvez
8. Mr. Surendra Gadling
9. Mr. Mahesh Raut
10. Mr. Sudhir Dhawale
11. Mr. Rona Wilson
These activists, many of them eminent scholars, writers and poets, have worked for the welfare of India’s poorest and most marginalised people over decades. Yet they have been turned into politcal prisoners and incarcerated. They have not been granted bail despite the fact that in the prisons of Maharashtra where they are being detained, some inmates have died and many others have tested positive for COVID-19.
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Things Getting Really Bad in Overcrowded Maharashtra Prisons

Things Getting Really Bad in Overcrowded Maharashtra Prisons

Newsclick / by Parth MN

Even after 2 deceased inmates were found COVID-19 positive, testing is not being done in Taloja where rights activists, mostly 60+, arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case have been lodged.
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OF 269 PRISON INMATES WHO TESTED POSITIVE IN MAHARASHTRA, 115 RECOVERED

The Hindu / by Sonam Saigal

As of June 13, 17, 695 screenings and 1681 swab tests were conducted in 10 Central Prisons in Maharashtra and in the Additional Director General, Prisons (ADGP) office of which 269 tested positive, 115 recovered and four died, the Bombay High Court was informed on Monday.
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The Day Justice Hosbet Suresh Was Threatened With Arrest

The Day Justice Hosbet Suresh Was Threatened With Arrest

The Wire / by Susan Abraham

The police’s relentless pursuit of human rights activists in connection with the Bhima Koregaon violence did not spare judges either.
The Bhima Koregaon case, in which 11 prominent human rights activists, lawyers and academics languish behind bars, that too during a pandemic, has now become the template for similar arrests taking place in different parts of the country 2014 under the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah regime.
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Nearly 100 Global Intellectuals Appeal for Varavara Rao, Saibaba to Be Released

Nearly 100 Global Intellectuals Appeal for Varavara Rao, Saibaba to Be Released

The Wire / by The Wire Staff

New Delhi: Close to a 100 renowned intellectuals from across the world have appealed to President Ram Nath Kovind and Chief Justice of India (CJI) S.A. Bobde to release professor G.N. Saibaba and activist Varavara Rao, saying they have been imprisoned in ‘fabricated cases’ and that they are vulnerable to infection in the ‘overcrowded Maharashtra prisons’.
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Gadchiroli court rejects ‘Naxalite’ Varavara Rao’s bail plea

Gadchiroli court rejects ‘Naxalite’ Varavara Rao’s bail plea

The Times of India / by Vaibhav Ganjapure

Nagpur: The Gadchiroli sessions court has rejected the bail application of alleged Maoist Varavara Rao in the case of 39 trucks being burned by Naxalites on December 23, 2016. The 81-year-old applied for bail on the grounds of old age due to which he was a high risk for Covid-19 virus. He is currently in Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai.
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Update (June 12) regarding other bail hearing before special NIA Court
By Stand With Anand: Today judge and medical reports from Taloja jail & hospital were there. Time has been required by court to go through. Bail hearing is postponed to next Friday, 19 June.

Court seeks medical reports of Shoma Sen

Court seeks medical reports of Shoma Sen

The Hindu / by Sonam Saigal

A special court on Friday directed Byculla jail authorities to submit, on June 19, the medical reports of professor Shoma Sen (61), an accused in the Elgaar Parishad case who is seeking interim medical bail.
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Update (June 12) by Stand With Anand: Today judge and medical reports from Taloja jail & hospital were there. Time has been required by court to go through.
Bail hearing is postponed to next Friday, 19 June.