Thread by @Smashboard_

YOUR ACTION IS REQUIRED TODAY!
The Indian government has set up a committee to rewrite all of our criminal laws and here's the big problem- (via @citizensspeakup)

YOUR CIVIL AND POLITICAL LIBERTIES ARE IN DANGER. Criminal laws define the limits of what we can do without fear of punishment. They are meant to have safeguards to ensure that the police, the government, and those in power can't jail, punish or kill people at will.

THERE IS A RISK OF DILUTION OF SAFEGUARDS!
All indications suggest that this committee has been set up to widen the net of criminal laws and to dilute what safeguards exist to prevent unfair prosecutions/persecution and wrongful convictions.

THERE ARE JUST FIVE MEN IN THE COMMITTEE!
No representation for womxn, Dalits, Adivasis, trans-persons, or other historically marginalised communities; no representation for religious and social minorities; and no representation for the disabled. None from south, east/north-east.

CITIZENS ARE BEING KEPT IN THE DARK!
Reform in the time of a devastating pandemic only adds to the exclusionary nature of the process, affording no opportunity for engagement for most citizens of the country.

SIGN THE DOCUMENT NOW TO SAY NO!
visit: disbandthecommittee.in and hit "take action" on their home page.