The courtroom farce in Chhattisgarh : Anand Patwardhan
Indian Express > Op-Ed >
Anand Patwardhan
Posted: Apr 04, 2009 at 0122 hrs IST
On Monday, March 16, the first batch of satyagrahis marched through Raipur towards the Central Jail where Dr. Binayak Sen has been wrongfully incarcerated for almost two years.
Flanked by the police, we walked for 2 kilometres with our banners, shouting “Free Binayak!” [...]
Lessons from an Indian jail
The story of a doctor locked up for years for speaking up for the voiceless poor is a morality play with implications for all of us
Priyamvada Gopal
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 2 April 2009 22.00 BST
As the world’s financial and political elites ponder our economic futures, having whipped themselves into a frenzy about projected violence by the discontented, [...]
POLICING DISSENT: The Silencing of Speech in Chhattisgarh
Statement read out by Dipti Bhatnagar
Students for Justice in Chhattisgarh, UC Berkeley
The Berkeley Conference on Indian Democracy
Saturday 9/27, 2:00 pm
8th Floor, Barrows Hall
I appreciate this opportunity to express our views and ask some questions of Mr. Vishwa Ranjan, the highest police official of Chhattisgarh.
Others have talked about the broader issues, I wish to talk about [...]
Letter from Berkeley Faculty to protest Chhattisgarh DIG’s visit
Mr. Vishwa Ranjan, Director-General of Police, Chhattisgarh
We, concerned members of university and college faculties, write to condemn the ongoing violations of the human and civil rights of its citizens by the state of Chhattisgarh, primarily through the agency of your department, the Chhattisgarh police force. These violations include the arbitrary arrest and indefinite detention [...]
EVER QUESTIONED A REAL LIVE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATOR?
This Saturday, come question Vishwa Ranjan, the head police official in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, where police are responsible for:
jailing public health activist and civil rights leader Dr. Binayak Sen
widespread violence & brutality against the states’s Tribal communities
supporting and arming a militia which has razed 100s of villages and uprooted several hundred thousand people [...]
