#bk16 — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bk16, aggregated by home.social.
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Unlawful Activities: How the Indian prison system denies basic freedoms, rights and dignity to political prisoners
Even the UAPA prisoners under the full glare and scrutiny of the media were subject to a cavalcade of cruelties, large and small. This ranged from the denial of medical treatment, to the mental and physical cruelties of high-security prison cells, and even to being disallowed from speaking to relatives in their native language. Bhavya Dore and Sukhada Tatke write.
#UAPA #PoliticalPrisoners #undertrials #dissent #PressFreedom #activism #BK16 #TalojaCentralJail #disability #HumanRights #healthcare #BhimaKoregaonCase #maharashtra #india
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Intellectual Insurgency and Mahesh Raut
We are witnessing a pretend politics which lives on the time borrowed from a deferred revolution, write Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan (excerpted from the authors' book Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics)
#BookExcerpt #BK16 #MaheshRaut #BhimaKoregaonCase #BhimaKoregaon #history #RSS #brahminism #BrahminHegemony #dalits #caste #SocialJustice #rights #UAPA #DraconianLaws #hindutva #books #bookstodon #history #histodon #india
https://thewire.in/rights/mahesh-raut-elgar-parishad-book-excerpt
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'Every time I stepped out, the camera was on': Love and resilience in captivity with Gautam Navlakha
Sahba Husain relinquished her freedom to spend nearly two years in house arrest in a makeshift room with her partner of 30 years.
#GautamNavlakha #BhimaKoregaonCase #BK16 #dissent #UAPA #DraconianLaws #incarceration #SahbaHusain #india
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Will Arundhati Roy be arrested?
By targeting the celebrated author, Narendra Modi is determined to show that none of those who defy his regime are safe, writes Alpa Shah.
#ArundhatiRoy #SheikhShowkatHussain #kashmir #dissent #UAPA #DraconianLaws #BK16 #BhimaKoregaonCase #BJP #RSS #hindutva #FreeSpeech #india
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/asia/india/2024/06/will-arundhati-roy-be-arrested
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Introducing the BK-16 Prison Diaries series
The series offers a glimpse into the BK-16’s lives inside prison, as well as the struggles of their loved ones outside. Each piece in the series is complemented by Arun Ferreira’s striking and evocative artwork.
#BK16 #BhimaKoregaonCase #PoliticalPrisoners #dissent #UAPA #DraconianLaws #HumanRights #BK16PrisonDiaries #india
https://www.thepolisproject.com/read/introducing-the-bk-16-prison-diaries-series/
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What does the death of a jailed Jesuit priest say about India's democracy under Modi?
Stan Swamy had recently published a study of 3,000 people jailed for being members of banned Maoist groups. He found that 97% of them had no such affiliation and that many of their trials were held without lawyers, in a language they didn't understand. He'd filed a case on their behalf in the state court of Jharkhand, where he lived. All of this had embarrassed the government, he said.
#StanSwamy #jharkhand #adivasis #AdivasiRights #ForestRights #maoists #dalits #BK16 #BhimaKoregaonCase #HumanRights #UAPA #BJP #india
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/02/1250799690/india-democracy-modi-priest-jail-death
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What does the death of a jailed Jesuit priest say about India's democracy under Modi?
Stan Swamy had recently published a study of 3,000 people jailed for being members of banned Maoist groups. He found that 97% of them had no such affiliation and that many of their trials were held without lawyers, in a language they didn't understand. He'd filed a case on their behalf in the state court of Jharkhand, where he lived. All of this had embarrassed the government, he said.
#StanSwamy #jharkhand #adivasis #AdivasiRights #ForestRights #maoists #dalits #BK16 #BhimaKoregaonCase #HumanRights #UAPA #BJP #india
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/02/1250799690/india-democracy-modi-priest-jail-death
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Gautam Navlakha Gets Bail, But the Elgar Parishad Ordeal Continues
'We are really hopeful now but also angry that a clearly innocent man has to remain in jail.'
#BK16 #GautamNavlakha #JyotiJagtap #UAPA #BhimaKhoregaonCase #ElgarParishad #DraconianLaws #SupremeCourt #india
https://thewire.in/rights/gautam-navlakha-elgar-parishad-bhima-koregaon
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Maharashtra: Raising the bar from behind bars
Bhima-Koregaon accused Mahesh Raut and Sagar Gorkhe clear law exam even as their own controversial case drags on.
#maharashtra #MaheshRaut #SagarGorkhe #BK16 #BhimaKoregaonCase #UAPA #CET #dissent #DraconianLaws #PoliticalPrisoners #india
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Delhi University's associate professor Hany Babu withdraws bail plea in Supreme Court
A bench of Justices Bela Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal took note of the submission of of the lawyer appearing for Babu, who said five other co-accused have been granted bail in the case.
#BK16 #HanyBabu #BhimaKoregaonCase #ElgarParishad #NIA #SupremeCourt #india
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Stay on bail for long period affects personal liberty and rights, feel experts
Elgaar Parishad case accused Mahesh Raut and Gautam Navlakha remain in jail for over four months since grant of bail by the Bombay High Court.
#BK16 #BhimaKoregaonCase #MaheshRaut #GautamNavlakha #BombayHC #UAPA #DraconianLaws #india
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Allegations of terrorism against Bhima Koregaon accused Shoma Sen prima facie untrue: Supreme Court
The bench remarked that no evidence had been placed before it to suggest that the former professor is a member of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist).
#BK16 #ShomaSen #SupremeCourt #BhimaKoregaonCase #UAPA #DraconianLaws #india
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Shoma Sen, accused in Elgar Parishad case, granted bail by Supreme Court
Sen, an English literature professor and women’s rights activist, was arrested in connection with the case on June 6, 2018.
#BK16 #ShomaSen #BhimaKoregaonCase #UAPA #DraconianLaws #dissent #SupremeCourt #india
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New Book on Bhima Koregaon Case Tells Uncomfortable Truths, But Brings Hope
Alpa Shah’s book, ‘The Incarcerations’, is alive with stories of fearlessness, but also of the cost it extracts.
#BookReview #BhimaKoregaonCase #BhimaKoregaon #BK16 #AlpaShah #dissent #UAPA #DraconianLaws #HumanRights #BJP #UnionGovt #books #bookstodon #india
https://www.thequint.com/opinion/the-incarcerations-alpa-shah-new-book-bhima-koregaon-case
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Alpa Shah: India is not a safe place any more
Narendra Modi’s Hindu supremacism is capturing major state institutions while repressing minority groups and political activists.
#interview #AlpaShah #books #bookstodon #BK16 #BhimaKoregaonCase #BJP #corruption #oligarchy #dissent #HinduNationalism #HumanRights #NarendraModi #india
https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-interview/2024/03/alpa-shah-interview-india-not-safe-place
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Some personal reflections on prison medical care
This is a personal account of medical practices and healthcare behind bars, which draws on direct experiences and narrations from fellow prisoners, accumulated during eleven years in custody. It touches on issues of the relationship of medical professionals with the torture of detenus, the anarchy of everyday prison medication, frailty and death among older inmates and the proposals and prospects for prison healthcare reform. It sees a need for systemic change, but the prognosis is not optimistic. Vernon Gonsalves writes.
#BK16 #prisons #PrisonMedicalCare #healthcare #MedicalEthics #PrisonHospitals #PrisonReform #PrisonDoctors #PoliticalPrisoners #torture #HumanRights #DraconianLaws #UAPA #india
https://ijme.in/articles/some-personal-reflections-on-prison-medical-care/?galley=html
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Bhima Koregaon: A new book recounts how 16 activists were imprisoned as terrorists, without trial
An excerpt from ‘The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India’, by Alpa Shah.
#BookExcerpt #AlpaShah #BhimaKoregaonCase #BhimaKoregaon #BK16 #ElgarParishad #maharashtra #UAPA #DraconianLaws #books #bookstodon #india
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Was the trial judge who convicted G.N. Saibaba biased? We will never know, and that is part of the injustice
The injustice of a trial judge filling the gaps in the prosecution’s case (which relied on ‘evidence’ in the form of bananas, umbrellas and newspaper cuttings) with judicial overreach to chop ten years off Professor G.N. Saibaba’s life. Nihalsing B. Rathod writes.
#GNSaibaba #UAPA #HumanRights #IndianJudiciary #DraconianLaws #SurendraGadling #BK16 #india
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Hacker-for-hire gang with links to Pune police planted emails on the computers of Bhima Koregaon accused: new book
The mercenary hacker gang, headquartered in India, remotely implanted evidence, according to LSE professor’s book; cites cybersecurity researchers to claim gang’s connection to a Pune police officer.
#BhimaKoregaonCase #BK16 #activism #dalits #ElgarParishad #hacking #PunePolice #books #bookstodon #AlpaShah #UAPA #DraconianLaws #india
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Activist Gautam Navlakha Owes ₹1.64 Crore For House Arrest Security: Anti-Terror Agency
The National Investigation Agency said this in the Supreme Court, and Mr Navlakha's lawyer termed the amount "extortion".
#GautamNavlakha #NIA #BK16 #BhimaKoregaonCase #activism #SupremeCourt #india
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While A Journalist Spends Time in Jail For Doing His Duty, An Old, Ailing Man Even Unable To Even Sip Water & Dies Behind Bars, What happened to Article 21? Justice Rekha Sharma
During the seminar hosted today by Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms (CJAR) at ISIL, Delhi, former Delhi High Court Judge Rekha Sharma lamented that the Supreme Court has lost its credibility in the eyes of the public. She further expressed concerns that while powerful people are getting bail "on experimental basis", commoners are "withering away unwept, unheard and unsung".
#JusticeRekhaSharma #IndianJudiciary #SupremeCourt #BhimaKoregaonCase #StanSwamy #BK16 #UmarKhalid #article21 #article32 #HemantSoren #india
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First Person: A personal account of an NIA raid
Venugopal is a kin of Varavara Rao, a prominent Indian activist hailing from Telangana, also an accused in the Elgar Parishad case.
#NVenugopal #NIA #ElgarParishad #BhimaKoregaonCase #BK16 #dissent #caste #telangana #TelanganaPolice #UAPA #DraconianLaws #india
https://thesouthfirst.com/opinion/first-person-a-personal-account-of-an-nia-raid/
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‘My state has done the greatest honour by putting me in jail’: Anand Teltumbde after receiving Karnataka’s Basava award
Teltumbde says the award is ‘an honour for all the faceless and countless activists struggling for making this world better for people to live’.
#AnandTeltumbde #karnataka #BasavaAward #dissent #BhimaKoregaonCase #BK16 #UAPA #DraconianLaws #india
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Bombay High Court Grants Bail to Gautam Navlakha in Elgar Parishad Case
The court has put a three-week stay on its decision in which the National Investigation Agency can approach the Supreme Court.
#BombayHC #GautamNavlakha #BhimaKoregaonCase #ElgarParishad #UAPA #NIA #dissent #activism #dalits #caste #BK16 #india
https://thewire.in/law/bombay-high-court-grants-bail-to-gautam-navlakha-in-elgar-parishad-case
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Contrary To SC’s Rules Of Assignment, At Least 8 Politically Sensitive Cases Moved To One Judge In 4 Months
An analysis of eight politically sensitive cases shows they were moved to Justice Bela M Trivedi of the Supreme Court over the past four months, even though the rules of assignment say they should remain with the senior judge or before a judge hearing a similar case.
#SupremeCourt #BelaMTrivedi #UmarKhalid #DKShivakumar #SenthilBalaji #EdappadiPalaniswami #UAPA #BK16 #MaheshRaut #BhimaKoregaonCase #BJP #india
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Bhima Koregaon: Supreme Court Adjourns Hearing of bail plea by Shoma Sen again
Senior advocate Anand Grover, appearing on behalf of Shoma Sen, emphasised that Sen has been lodged in jail for five and a half years without trial and the bail hearing before the Supreme Court has been pending for five and a half months.
#ShomaSen #BK16 #BhimaKoregaonCase #dalits #HumanRights #WomensRights #activism #NIA #UAPA #DraconianLaws #india
https://www.newsclick.in/bhima-koregaon-supreme-court-adjourns-hearing-bail-plea-shoma-sen-again
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Bhima Koregaon: NIA court directs prison authorities to provide Sagar Gorkhe treatment
An application was filed by Sagar Gorkhe, praying the court to direct urgent and necessary treatment for his mental and physical health. According to the application, the prison authorities have deprived Gorkhe of medicines and treatment for his psychiatric conditions.
#BhimaKoregaonCase #SagarGorkhe #BK16 #UAPA #IndianPrisons #Mentalhealth #healthcare #caste #dalits #BhimaKoregaon #activism #DraconianLaws #india
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‘I saw brutality, but also solidarity,’ says Sudha Bharadwaj, author of From Phansi Yard, of her days in prison
Arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case, activist-lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj kept a diary of prison life. Released in 2021, she writes about her experience at Yerawada jail.
#interview #SudhaBharadwaj #BhimaKoregaonCase #activism #dissent #chhattisgarh #ForestRights #TribalRights #adivasis #BK16 #prisons #books #bookstodon #india
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India is weaponising FATF recommendations against civil society
The terrorism financing watchdog should beware of India’s misuse of its recommendations to stifle dissent, writes Aakar Patel.
#NewsClick #DelhiPoliceRaids #DelhiPolice #PressFreedom #dissent #FATF #UAPA #PMLA #FCRA #DraconianLaws #BK16 #ED #BJP #india
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India ‘weaponising global anti-terror fund’ to crack down on civil society groups, Amnesty says
The Indian government has exploited the assessment reports of a global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog to target “legitimate human rights work of civil society”, a new report by Amnesty International said. More than 20,600 NGOs had their licences cancelled in India in last ten years, Amnesty says.
#NGOs #HumanRights #IndianGovt #amnesty #FATF #ReligiousDiscrimination #muslims #minorities #OppositionParties #ClimateChange #environment #UAPA #PMLA #kashmir #BhimaKoregaon #BK16 #DraconianLaws #hindutva #democracy #BJP #NarendraModi #modi #india
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What is Section 207 CrPC, an essential piece of the Bhima Koregaon case puzzle?
What is the law embedded in Section 207 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and why does it keep getting invoked in the Elgar Parishad–Bhima Koregaon case?
https://theleaflet.in/why-is-section-207-crpc-an-essential-piece-of-the-bhima-koregaon-case-puzzle/
#BhimaKoregaonCase #CRPC #section207 #BhimaKoregaon #ElgarParishad #BK16 #law #LegalRights #india