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1500 and counting…

Posted on November 1, 2012 | Leave a comment

Responding to the call for action, people from around the country have raised their voices against police torture and sent postcards to Soni Sori, expressing their solidarity with her in her brave fight for justice.

Over the past year, Soni’s fight has become a symbol for thousands of mistreated women prisoners around the country. With over 1500 postcards sent, support for her cause is growing … Let us remind ourselves that Soni Sori is not the first, and certainly not the last, innocent adivasi woman to be falsely accused and tortured. It is therefore time for us to stand up against torture, sexual violence and state repression!

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NCW Shamed into Reopening the Soni Sori Case After Gherao!

Posted on October 10, 2012 | Leave a comment

protestors outisde the NCW office

Today afternoon, activists from women’s groups and several peoples’ organisations stormed the National Commission for Women (NCW), protesting against the continued inaction for an year in the Soni Sori case. It has been one year since the arrest of 36-year old Soni Sori, an adivasi school warden from Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, and her custodial at the behest of the then SP of Dantewada, Ankit Garg. Soni Sori’s right to life and dignity have been violated by various jail and police authorities several times over – from foisting false cases against her, sexually torturing and humiliating her in the police station, denying her medical attention, and most recently, humiliating her by publicly stripping her in prison in the name of conducting physical search. It is also one year since women’s groups first met the NCW to seek their intervention.e

Since the first meeting last year, these organizations have approached the NCW on several occasions to take steps against Soni Sori’s custodial torture and continuing ill treatment. Every single instance of illegality by police and jail authorities was brought to the attention of the NCW. Soni Sori herself wrote to the NCW seeking their help. But all this has fallen on deaf ears.

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National Commission for Women or No-Action Commission on Women? Why has NCW not taken any action in the case of Soni Sori’s custodial sexual torture?

Posted on October 10, 2012 | Leave a comment

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It has been one year since the arrest of 36-year old Soni Sori, an adivasi school warden from Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, and her custodial torture at the behest of the then SP of Dantewada, Ankit Garg. Soni Sori’s right to life and dignity have been violated by various jail and police authorities several times over – from foisting false cases against her, sexually torturing and humiliating her in the police station, denying her medical attention, and most recently, humiliating her by publicly stripping her in prison in the name of conducting physical search.

We approached the National Commission for Women on several occasions to take steps against Soni Sori’s custodial torture and continuing ill treatment. Every single instance of illegality by police and jail authorities was brought to the attention of the National Commission for Women (NCW). Soni Sori herself wrote to the NCW seeking their help. But all this has fallen on deaf ears.
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Call for Action ! Send Soni Sori a Postcard

Posted on September 30, 2012 | 1 comment
show your solidarity

The time is NOW !

Soni Sori and other prisoners need to know, they are not alone

get a postcard, write your message, post it, mobilise others to do the same

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Soni Sori’s struggle for justice gets solidarity from various parts of the country

Posted on September 30, 2012 | 1 comment

On the occasion of the birth centenary of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, a post card campaign has been launched for people to express their solidarity with Soni Sori and her struggle for justice. WSS calls upon everyone to join in this campaign. Post cards were signed in Delhi, Bhopal and Indore today to launch the campaign.

Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression (WSS) has launched a solidarity campaign for Soni Sori incarcerated in Raipur jail for the past one year under false charges of being a Maoist engaged in extortion and violence.

In two of the eight cases fabricated against her by the Dantewada police, Soni Sori has already been acquitted. In a third significant case in which she, her husband and her nephew Lingaram Kodopi are all charged and imprisoned,  the key eye witness, Avadhesh Gautam, has given vital testimony on 27th September 2012, confirming that none of these three were present at the incident site.  This corroborates what Soni Sori has been saying all this while, that the Chhattisgarh police have been foisting all these false cases against her and her family, merely in order to harass and punish them for refusing to obey the illegal diktats of the Chhattisgarh police. Continue reading →

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