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Mumbai Protest Against Attacks on Soni Sori and Jaglag

Posted on February 24, 2016 | Leave a comment

Mumbai, 23 February 2016

Around a 100 students, teachers, writers, lawyers and activists demonstrated outside CST railway station in Mumbai to protest
1. The strong wave of discrimination-cum-hounding faced by students
(because of their political views of dissent) on campuses across the
country, and the repression that has followed.
2. The recent spate of attacks on activists, journalists and legal aid
workers in Chhattisgarh, the physical attack on Soni  Sori being the latest
and most grotesque.

The demonstration expressed solidarity with the rally held in New Delhi as part of the nationwide protest against the killing of Rohit Vemula and other state supported attacks on progressive voices.10307386_10154018679102577_3388984848187097441_n
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Press Statement from Delhi Protest on Attacks on Human Rights Defender’s in Chhattisgarh

Posted on February 23, 2016 | Leave a comment

Press Statement

Increasing accounts of fake encounters, arrest and unlawful detention of adivasi villagers and increasing militarization in the districts of Bastar have created a climate of state led terror.

22nd February 2016, Chhattisgarh Bhawan, New Delhi: Diverse groups, individuals and organisations have assembled to protest the attack on Soni Sori, tribal activist and AAP leader that have taken place as part of the State oppression that has become commonplace in Chhattisgarh.

With the BJP coming into power at the Centre, Bastar has witnessed a sustained escalation in state violence against the local adivasis through increasing militarization and violence ostensibly to counter Maoism. Along with this, developmental works such as iron ore mining, steel production, railway expansion to ferry goods and raw material is being planned. Multiple security camps have come up to facilitate this work there have also been reports of cancellation of forest rights given to tribals, which is unconstitutional. Continue reading →

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Memorandum to the Chhattisgarh CM

Posted on February 23, 2016 | Leave a comment

To
Sh. Raman Singh,
The Chief Minister,
Chhattisgarh.

(Through the Resident Commissioner of Chhattisgarh Bhawan, New Delhi)

Dt. 22nd February, 2016
Sir,

The attack on Soni Sori is part of a larger campaign of State violence in Bastar; Under the guise of anti-Naxal operations, the security forces are indulging in rape and plunder. Teams of women activists have documented three cases of mass sexual violence in the past three months, where security forces have entered villages in Sukma and Bijapur- stripping women, conducting gangrapes, looting their food supplies, and destroying their homes and granaries. The number of “encounters” is increasing, people are “disappearing” from villages, only to show up in the list of “surrendered” or “arrested” Naxalites several days later as press clippings and testimonies recount. The local police and administration are talking in one voice of “clearing” the area within one year. Continue reading →

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Delhi Protest Against Attacks on Soni Sori and Jaglag

Posted on February 23, 2016 | Leave a comment
Delhi, 22 February 2016
There were around 70 people at the protest from WSS, Delhi Support Group, NAPM,  human rights groups, women’s organsations, students, teachers, media people and lawyers and members of the Insaf network.

Even as we gathered on the pavement outside Chhattisgarh Bhavan, which was heavily barricaded, the police (CRPF and Delhi Police) began pushing and herding us into a small section of the lane beside the building, using the barricades to cage us in on three sides. A police bus was brought in and parked so as to block off the mouth of the lane. Police and IB people were taking videos and photos.
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Raipur Protest Against Attacks on Soni Sori and Jaglag

Posted on February 23, 2016 | Leave a comment 
रायपुर, 21 फरबरी 2016

छत्तीसगढ़ में आदिवासियों पर हो रहे अत्याचार के खिलाफ आवाज बुलंद करने वालो पर 
राजकीय दमन लगातर बढता जा रहा हैं| बस्तर में आदिवासियों की हत्या, फर्जी मुठभेड़, 
महिलाओ के साथ बलात्कार आदि मुद्दों को उजागर करने वाले, उन्हें कानूनी सहायता 
उपलब्ध करने वाले सामाजिक कार्यकर्ताओ, पत्रकार साथियों तथा वकीलों को लगातर 
प्रताड़ित कर दमन किया जा रहा हैं| कल रात 10 बजे सोनी सोरी पर हमला कर 
उनके मुह पर केमिकल लगाया गया| जगदलपुर लीगल ऐड के वकील साथियों व महिला 
पत्रकार को बस्तर छोड़ने के लिए मजबूर किया गया| इसके विरोध मैं आज 21 फरबरी 
2016 को रायपुर में छत्तीसगढ़ बचाओ आन्दोलन सहित 15 जनसंगठनो ने एक जुटता के 
साथ विरोध प्रदर्शन आयोजित कर आंबेडकर चोक से जयस्तंभ चौक तक रेली निकली गई|

Raipur, 21 February 2016

State repression on everyone speaking out against the 
atrocities on the adivasis in Chhattisgarh has been 
increasing day by day. Journalists, lawyers providing 
legal aid and activists who are highlighting issues 
like the killing of adivasis in Bastar, fake encounters, 
sexual assault and rapes on women are being targeted 
and attacked. Last night Soni Sori was attacked with 
some acid-like chemical. Lawyers of Jagdalpur Legal Aid Group 
and a woman journalist have been hounded out of Bastar. 
15 organisations along with Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan 
came together to protest against such attacks on human 
rights defenders in Raipur on the 21st of February, and 
took out a rally from Ambedkar Chowk to Jaistambh Chowk. 

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Bhopal Protest Against Attacks on Soni Sori and Jaglag

Posted on February 22, 2016 | Leave a comment

Bhopal, 22 February 2016

AAP-MP, AAP ki mahila shakti and WSS held a demonstration in Bhopal condemning the attacks on Soni Sori and other human rights defenders in Chhattisgarh. They called attention to the fact that the hounding of the women human rights defenders is related to their work and the questions they have raised in regards to state repression and violence against the tribals in Chhattisgarh; as also questions about who is a real traitor to the country.

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Hyderabad Protest Against Attacks on Soni Sori and Jaglag

Posted on February 21, 2016 | Leave a comment

Hyderabad, 21 February 2016

Today at Tank Bund, a group of 50 people spontaneously gathered to
protest the attack upon adivasi activist Soni Sori, as well as to
condemn the rapes of adivasi women and fake encounters that Soni Sori
had been protesting relentlessly. Present were representatives of
Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression, Sandhya from
Progressive Organisation of Women, feminist activists Sajaya and
Vanaja, Prof. Laxman, Suresh, Raju and Narayana of Civil Liberties
Committee, Prof. Padmaja Shaw, Prof. Harjinder Singh (Laltu), Prof.
K.Y. Ratnam, Prof. G. Vijay of Democratic Teachers Network, and
several teachers and students of University of Hyderabad and EFLU.

Hyderabad 21 feb 2016

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