The following statements by the National Alliance of People's Movements and the Odisha based Ganatantrik Adhikar Surakhya Sangathan are among many expressions of outrage at state attacks using the anti-terror Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) on Adivasis seeking to protect the Niyamgiri hills from bauxite mining. Find out more here: https://www.counterview.net/2023/08/state-attacking-activists-to-break.html ; https://pudr.org/free-niyamgiri-stop-arrests-illegal-detentions-and-attacks-nss-and-people-kashipur ; https://countercurrents.org/2023/08/withdraw-uapa-cases-against-leaders-activists-and-supporters-of-the-movement-led-by-niyamgiri-surakhya-samiti/ … Continue reading State ‘attacking activists’ to break tribal struggle for land in bauxite-rich Odisha hills
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Statement against the drone bomb attacks in Chhattisgarh, India
Press Note Over 85 international organisations and individual campaigners, activists and academics including two Labour MPs and a former Labour MEP have released a statement condemning the Indian state’s continued drone bomb attacks in Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh, the most recent on 7 April 2023. The repeated use of aerial bombardment on civilian populations suggests … Continue reading Statement against the drone bomb attacks in Chhattisgarh, India
Crisis in India
As people will be aware, there is a crisis in India; not just the recent Covid-19 surge but the human rights violations by the current government for the last five years or so including the revoking of Article 370 and atrocities in Kashmir, the Citizens Amendment Act (CAA), the Farm Bill and indiscriminate arrests under … Continue reading Crisis in India
December Newsletter
In this issue of the IndiaMatters UK newsletter IMUK NEWSLETTER_Dec_2018 : Unlawful Arrests - Why? .................................. 1 On 28 August 2018, five well-known lawyers, journalists and human rights defenders in India were arrested under anti-terror laws. Prominent citizens in India have protested including renowned historian Ramachandra Guha who described the arrests as a ‘witch-hunt’ and … Continue reading December Newsletter
What`s been happening in 2018?
A great deal has happened in India since January 2018. This extract from an article in scroll.in gives a brief overview of events. To read the full article just click on the link at the end. On New Year’s day 2018, caste violence broke out in Bhima Koregaon village, 30 km from Pune, during a … Continue reading What`s been happening in 2018?
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