Pls. Sign the Petition: Withdraw all charges against academics and activists falsely accused by Chhattisgarh police
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Kamayani
Nov 9, 2016, 3:38:18 AM11/9/16
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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/596/484/960/
Withdraw all charges against academics and activists falsely accused
by Chhattisgarh police
We, the undersigned, are outraged by recent charges of murder that
have been laid against Delhi University professor Nandini Sundar, JNU
professor Archana Prasad, Vineet Tiwari (of Joshi Adhikar Sansthan,
Delhi), Chhattisgarh CPI(M) state secretary, Sanjay Parate, Mangalram
Karma, and Manju Kawasi, CPI activist and Sarpanch of Guphidi in Sukma
district, by the Chhattisgarh police in the killing of Shamnath
Baghel.
The charges are patently fabricated, and follow a pattern of
intimidation by the Chhattisgarh police every time evidence is
released of their lawless prosecution of the war against the Maoists.
Earlier this year, Sundar, Prasad, Tiwari and Parate were part of a
fact-finding team that looked at the impact of Maoist violence and
state excesses on ordinary villagers in Bastar, finding that they were
victims of fake encounters, rapes, arrests, beatings, IED blasts, and
killing of informers, implicating Maoists, police, and security
forces. The residents of Bastar were also found to be facing the
renewal of attacks by civilian militias armed by the state. At that
time too, the district administration of Bastar had tried to implicate
the fact-finding team on fake charges on the basis of a contrived
complaint. More recently, when the police were charge-sheeted on the
basis of evidence gathered by Sundar and others for carrying out arson
in an operation in 2011, they retaliated by burning effigies of her
and other activists and journalists in order to intimidate and incite
violence against them.
Sundar and others have put on record their unequivocal condemnation of
the killing of Shamnath Baghel. Their writing and interventions on the
ongoing war in Bastar have consistently condemned all forms of
violence, whether by the state or by the Maoists.
We are saddened by the climate of silencing of dissent that is
becoming widespread in India and concerned that the work of
researchers, journalists, lawyers and activists is being monitored and
controlled to quell critical scrutiny of governmental actions. We
believe such silencing of opposing views poses a grave danger to the
democratic values of India.
We condemn the police tactics of intimidating and harassing of
journalists, lawyers, researchers, political leaders and human rights
activists who have been documenting and speaking out against the
violence and brutality unleashed by the police, paramilitary, and
civilian militias against the local population of Bastar in the war
against the Maoists. We demand that the Government of India
unconditionally withdraw all charges against all the six persons who
have been falsely accused by Chhattisgarh police. We further demand
that an inquiry be set up to interrogate the manner in which the
police is interfering with law and taking the liberty to frame
researchers and activists to create an atmosphere of terror.
--
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/596/484/960/
Withdraw all charges against academics and activists falsely accused
by Chhattisgarh police
We, the undersigned, are outraged by recent charges of murder that
have been laid against Delhi University professor Nandini Sundar, JNU
professor Archana Prasad, Vineet Tiwari (of Joshi Adhikar Sansthan,
Delhi), Chhattisgarh CPI(M) state secretary, Sanjay Parate, Mangalram
Karma, and Manju Kawasi, CPI activist and Sarpanch of Guphidi in Sukma
district, by the Chhattisgarh police in the killing of Shamnath
Baghel.
The charges are patently fabricated, and follow a pattern of
intimidation by the Chhattisgarh police every time evidence is
released of their lawless prosecution of the war against the Maoists.
Earlier this year, Sundar, Prasad, Tiwari and Parate were part of a
fact-finding team that looked at the impact of Maoist violence and
state excesses on ordinary villagers in Bastar, finding that they were
victims of fake encounters, rapes, arrests, beatings, IED blasts, and
killing of informers, implicating Maoists, police, and security
forces. The residents of Bastar were also found to be facing the
renewal of attacks by civilian militias armed by the state. At that
time too, the district administration of Bastar had tried to implicate
the fact-finding team on fake charges on the basis of a contrived
complaint. More recently, when the police were charge-sheeted on the
basis of evidence gathered by Sundar and others for carrying out arson
in an operation in 2011, they retaliated by burning effigies of her
and other activists and journalists in order to intimidate and incite
violence against them.
Sundar and others have put on record their unequivocal condemnation of
the killing of Shamnath Baghel. Their writing and interventions on the
ongoing war in Bastar have consistently condemned all forms of
violence, whether by the state or by the Maoists.
We are saddened by the climate of silencing of dissent that is
becoming widespread in India and concerned that the work of
researchers, journalists, lawyers and activists is being monitored and
controlled to quell critical scrutiny of governmental actions. We
believe such silencing of opposing views poses a grave danger to the
democratic values of India.
We condemn the police tactics of intimidating and harassing of
journalists, lawyers, researchers, political leaders and human rights
activists who have been documenting and speaking out against the
violence and brutality unleashed by the police, paramilitary, and
civilian militias against the local population of Bastar in the war
against the Maoists. We demand that the Government of India
unconditionally withdraw all charges against all the six persons who
have been falsely accused by Chhattisgarh police. We further demand
that an inquiry be set up to interrogate the manner in which the
police is interfering with law and taking the liberty to frame
researchers and activists to create an atmosphere of terror.
--
Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal
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