Thread: At Polis, on August 15, we published the Manufacturing Evidence: How the Police framed and arrested Constitutional Rights Defenders in India. The report documents police bias in investigations aimed at targeting peaceful activists. thepolisproject.com/manufacturing-…
The report is an act of act courage and resilience of those who came together to gather evidence, report, write and speak the truth in these times when the State as effectively colonized everything, including our reality. They did so in the face of threats and retaliation.
Numerous human rights defenders are at risk of arrest in the coming weeks and months. As we speak, activists are being interrogated for their crime of exercising their democratic right to protest and hold the state accountable for its unconstitutional acts.
The recent letter published in @thewire_in Wire clearly states how people are being pressured to implicate @umarkahlid falsely. This corroborates our report and the pattern of impunity, coercion employed by the @DelhiPolice
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Ignoring strong evidence that implicates the ruling party leaders like Kapil Mishra for their role in the violence, the police have falsely accused activists supporting the protests of conspiring to provoke the violence.
The report also finds that police are coercing young working-class Muslim men to give false testimonies to implicate prominent activists. The aim is to criminalize dissent altogether.
India today is home to one of the largest numbers of Political Prisoners in a democracy, I urge journalists and reporters especially those who work for the foreign press to cover this.
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