The BJP Has Its Own Toolkit to Go After Dissidents Which It Uses Ruthlessly
Past experience suggests that Disha Ravi is only the beginning and more arrests are bound to follow.
Disha Ravi. Photo: Twitter
Rights15/Feb/2021
So Disha Ravi becomes the first Indian to be arrested under the newly manufactured âtoolkitâ conspiracy theory. All of 21, Dishaâs âcrimeâ is to share on social media a document designed to tell NGOs around the world how to create maximum impact when they campaign on some subject.
She is a passionate activist who set up the India wing of ‘Fridays for Future‘, originally started by Greta Thunberg to speak up on environmental issues, after being moved by a documentary on cruelty towards animals â just the kind of young citizen India should be proud of and encourage. Instead, she is being accused of being a âkey conspiratorâ in a plan to generate violence on the lines of January 26 at the Red Fort. The Delhi police flew
At least nine journalists have been targeted by police by arrests, intimidation and criminal charges over reporting and online posts about the ongoing farmers’ protest in India since protests began in November 2020. The protests reached a climax on January 26, with death of protestor Navreet Singh. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Indian affiliate Indian Journalists Union (IJU) condemn the tactics used to suppress media.
US Lawyers Write to President Biden on Farmers Protests, Modi Govt s Repressive Tactics Your administration comes to office at a time when minority communities across India are in peril, notes the letter, urging the US President to act.
U.S. President Joe Biden addresses National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff during a visit to NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, U.S., February 11, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Carlos Barria
World15/Feb/2021
New Delhi: More than 40 lawyers of south Asian descent have written an open letter to US President Joseph Biden, asking him to take note of the farmers’ protests and the methods of repressing it taken up by the Centre.
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