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Time line of the Attacks on Human Rights Defenders in Chhattisgarh

Posted on February 24, 2016 | Leave a comment

23.2.2016

2 uniformed policemen from Papra thana visit Bela’s house and click photos of her, Jean and the interior of the house. This is followed by a visit from two people in civilian clothes carrying Chhattisgarh Police ID.

Protests in Bangalore and Mumbai
22.2.2016 JagLAG’s ex-landlord is called into the Bodhghat thana again – this time because there is a complaint by some Dipankar Sahu against “three women who are anti-social elements” who are staying in his house.

Protests in Delhi and Bhopal. Delhi protesters are detained by the police for several hours.

NHRC hears WSS complaint and decides to send a 3-member team to Bastar. (The team to be constituted and the dates of the visit finalised this week.)
Delhi CM Mr. Kejriwal visits Soni in the hospital
21.2.2016 IG, SP cast doubts on Soni’s story, saying that she is exaggerating the story. She is discharged from the Jagdalpur hospital and taken to Delhi, where doctors confirm that she has facial burns due to an unknown substance.

Protests and demonstrations in Raipur and Hyderabad against the attack on Soni Sori, JagLAG lawyers and Malini

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Statement of Bangalore Protest against State violence, In Solidarity with Kashmiri Women’s Day of Resistance

Posted on February 24, 2016 | Leave a comment

Coalition against State Repression

Protest against State Violence and Repression on Dalits, Adivasis and Minorities
In solidarity with Kashmiri Women’s Day of Resistance

Tuesday, February 23, 5 pm, Mysore Bank Circle, Bangalore

On 23 February 2016, Coalition against State Repression calls for people to join us in a protest against State violence and repression against Dalits, Adivasis and Minorities which the State has been perpetrating in different parts of the country including Chattisgarh in the recent past. This is also in solidarity with the Kashmiri Women’s Day of Resistance which marks the 25th anniversary of the mass sexual assaults of Kashmiri women and torture of Kashmiri men in Kunan Poshpora.
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Bangalore Protest against State violence, In Solidarity with Kashmiri Women’s Day of Resistance

Posted on February 24, 2016 | Leave a comment

Bangalore, 23 February 2016

A group of about 50 people, including students, lawyers, activists and organisations who have come together under the banner of Coalition Against State Repression, held a demonstration at the Mysore Bank Circle in Bangalore on 23rd evening. They protested against State violence and repression on Dalits, Adivasis and Minorities – focusing on the recent attacks on Soni Sori, lawyers, journalists and activists in Chhattisgarh and expressed solidarity with the Kashmiri Women’s Day of Resistance marking the the 25th anniversary of the mass sexual assaults of women and torture of men in Kunan Poshpora.

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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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