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Dr. Ilina Sen: "We should keep up the pressure to repeal sedition law."
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The full  interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJTvxV8_Cvc

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Delhi LG approves prosecution of Arundhati Roy under UAPA https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/delhi-lg-gives-prosecution-sanction-against-arundhati-roy-under-uapa-101718371339683-amp.html  Jun 14, 2024  Delhi lieutenant governor Vinai Kumar Saxena on Friday granted sanction to prosecute author Arundhati Roy under stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) for her alleged 'provocative' speech at an event in 2010, Also .former Central University of Kashmir professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain under section 196 of CrPC. ...Besides Roy and Sheikh Showkat Hussain, the others who made speeches included late Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, SAR Geelani (anchor of the Conference and prime accused in the Parliament attack case) and Varavara Rao.

The complainant Sushil Pandit, an activist from Kashmir, had filed a complaint under Section 156(3) of CrPC before the Metropolitan Magistrate Court, New Delhi, who disposed of the complaint on November 27, 2010 with the directions to register an FIR.It was alleged that Geelani and Arundhati Roy strongly propagated that Kashmir was never part of India  

अरुंधति रॉय पर UAPA, शुरू हो गया पुराना खेल https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSkIQFRzl-o Jun 15, 2024
अरुंधति रॉय पर चौदह साल पुराने मामले में UAPA की धारा के तहत केस चलेगा। इतने साल से ध्यान में नहीं आया, लगता है कि अपनी हार से बौखलाई सरकार अब फिर से उन्हीं तरीकों पर आ गई है। NDA के सहयोग से सरकार बनने के बाद भी यह NDA नहीं, मोदी सरकार है, अगर यही बताना था तो NEET के मामले में पारदर्शी होना था न कि लेखकों और पत्रकारों को जेल का रास्ता दिखा कर डराने की चाल चलनी चाहिए थी।

Meet 10 ‘political prisoners’ of the Narendra Modi regime in jail without trial https://www.telegraphindia.com/gallery/meet-10-political-prisoners-of-the-narendra-modi-regime-in-jail-without-trial-photogallery/cid/2026467 

the National Crime Records Bureau, in 2022, show that the number of undertrial inmates numbered 4,34,302 or 75.8 per cent of total prisoners.

Between 2016 and 2020, 24,134 individuals have been charged with the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) alone, only 386 of whom have reportedly been acquitted.

1. Umar Khalid, for allegedly inciting people through his speeches before the Delhi riots that occurred in February 2020

2. Surendra Gadling, a lawyer and Dalit rights activist from Nagpur

3. Rona Wilson, an activist and public relations secretary of the Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners,accused of inciting caste-based violence through speeches, and having Maoist connections. 

4. Jyoti Jagtap, a Dalit and Adivasi rights activist and member of the Kabir Kala Manch cultural group, 

5. Hany Babu, a professor of linguistics at Delhi University,, facing allegations of having links with Maoist organisations and inciting caste-based violence.

6. Sagar Gorkhe,e has been detained under various sections of the IPC and the UAPA, facing allegations of having links with Maoist organisations

7. Mahesh Raut, a land rights activist and former Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellow, for alleged links with Maoist organisations and inciting caste-based violence. 

8.  Ramesh Gaichor, a Dalit rights activist and yet another member of the Kabir Kala Manch cultural group,

9. Aasif Sultan, a Kashmiri journalist and former editor of the ‘Kashmir Narrator magazine’,  charges including "complicity" and "waging war against the state" in Kashmir.

10. Khurram Parvez, a Kashmiri human rights activist and chairperson of the Asian Federation Against is accused of funding terrorism and conspiring against the state,

Cooment in WA: A Guess Gulfisha, jailed in connection with CAA, was not found to be worth mentioning