The Delhi Police is coercing ‘confessional’ statements to manufacture evidence, and falsely implicating people, including @UmarKhalidJNU
On Sept 1, 2020, Umar Khalid sent a letter to the Delhi
Police Commissioner, Shri SN Shrivastava, with shocking evidence of the Delhi Police manufacturing evidence against him, through extorted statements.
The letter reveals that a young man was interrogated by the Delhi Police (Special Cell) and a false confession against @UmarKhalidJNU Khalid, related to the Delhi riots, was extracted and videotaped. The young man was
threatened that he would be arrested under UAPA if he refused.
He submitted to the coercion for he was scared, and yet his conscience allowed him to speak up about what had transpired.
You can read the chilling letter here thewire.in/rights/citing-…
Other people have earlier reported being coerced during police interrogation in the Delhi riots
cases - proving a clear pattern of behavior.
You can read @project_polis 's report Manufacturing Evidence report
In the Ankit Sharma charge-sheet Dayalpur Police station, presented by the Delhi Police, there were 4 identical
‘confessional’ statements.
There were 7 identical statements in the Ratan Lal (FIR 60/20), Dayalpur police station, charge-sheet. And there were 10 identical statements in the
Jaffrabad police station, (FIR 50/20) charge-sheet. scroll.in/article/967881…
In a fourth charge-sheet of the Dilbar Negi case (FIR number 39/20) Thana, Gokulpuri, the Indian Express found that 9 out of 12 confessional statements were near-verbatim copies of each other. indianexpress.com/article/cities…
This pattern of coerced statements and false evidence is alarming. But more importantly, the silence surrounding the persecution of citizens for exercising their right to dissent and protest.
Finally sat down to read India’s recent telecommunication Bill— this law ushers in an era of absolute authoritarian control of Internet in India, a kind of licence regime to the internet. It's broad and applies to all social media applications from WhatsApp to X to Instagram.
commentary and framing about this law uses “decolonial language”— it replaces colonial-era laws that gave the British absolute control over communications and surveillance of its colonial subjects.
What is interesting is that these laws today, promulgated by the Modi government, have far more control over an Indian citizen than the British had over its colonial subjects.
Earlier today Delhi police raided the homes of several journalists associated with the news outlet #Newsclick and are interrogating them in matters “related to terror links” under UAPA.
So far 17 people questioned
Some of them taken to police station.
Raids so far 30 locations
Journalist Urmilesh, Anindyo, Abhisar, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Subodh being interrogated by Delhi police special cell in FIR 224/23, dt
17/08/2023 U/S 13, 16, 17, 18, 22 C UAPA & 153 (A) & 120 (b) IPC
Houses of Newsclick editor Prabir Purkayastha, journalist Bhasha Singh, writer Geeta Hariharan, cultural historian and activists Sohail Hashmi and D Raghunandan, Standup comedian Sanjay Rajoura, and Tricontinental India Office, raided in Delhi & Teesta Setalavad in Mumbai
New thread alert #Uttrakhand #hatespeechIn an interview yesterday, Darshan Bharati (actual name Devendra Pawar), one of the 5 people inciting violence across #Uttrakhand, said that he does not believe in the Constitution. When asked, don't you think your speeches incite people?
"I don't believe in the Constitution", "I wish people actually got incited by my words, then so many Muslims would have had their hands and legs chopped off" - Uttarakhand extremist Darshan Bharati, in an interview on Sept 24 facebook.com/vijayrawat84/v…
Bharati's organisation, Devbhoomi Raksha Abhiyaan, was on the posters calling for Muslims to not return after dozens of families fled in June 2023. While he denied putting up posters, he pressured families in the area not to rent Muslim homes or shops.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pos…
In 9 States during Ram Navami & Hanuman Jayanti celebrations in April'22, there was widespread violence. During these processions, in 3 States: Gujarat, Jharkhand, & MP, at least 100 persons from the minority community were injured, and two were killed. scribd.com/document/63361…
"In April 2022, India witnessed violence breaking out in as many as nine states, along with incidents of provocation and low-grade violence in three others. "
"In all of them, the catalyst for the violence was the same: religious processions celebrating the Hindu festivals of RamNavami and Hanuman Jayanti, followed by targeted attacks on Muslim-owned properties, businesses, and places of worship."
"Keep weapons (knives) at home. Keep them sharp. If veggies can be cut well, so can the enemy's head," BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur follows the now-established patterns of calling for violence against Muslims in India. This is not the first time she has publicly invited violence.
Pragya was involved in the 2008 Malegaon bombings where 6 people were killed and 101 injured. She was arrested on terror charges under UAPA and currently under trial. She has been out on medical bail since 2017 after NIA dropped some of the charges against her.
Atwood, in Second Words narrates the incident when she asked a friend why men felt threatened by women. He replied, “They are afraid women will laugh at them and undercut their worldview.” She then asked her female students. They answered, “We’re afraid of being killed.”
I don’t think anyone can articulate the precarity women experience just going through life. It’s not her fault, and it doesn’t matter what she was wearing or if she had chosen to live with a man before she got married.
It doesn’t matter what boundaries you believe she transgressed.