Thread by @rupikaur_

on january 12—haryana police abducted nodeep kaur from her tent at singhu protest. since then she has been beaten & sexually assaulted while under police custody.

nodeep is 23 yold punjabi dalit woman & trade union activist who has been bravely speaking up about the protests.

“we come from a village to earn, we are dalit, we are women. i am a student. there is a class difference, even the police attack a labourer like tyrants. there is a class issue.”

- nodeep’s sister rajveer kaur

sabrangindia.in/article/why-wa…

nodeep’s case is emblematic of both the treatment of dalit activists and the custodial violence that’s taken place against punjabi women by indian security forces ranging from the 1980s to now.

india commonly uses police abduction to silence activism and protest.

requesting all my journalist friends and those involved in global class movements as well as global punjabi/sikh orgs to please please look into nodeep’s case—and others being arrested right now.

place pressure on intl orgs to demand nodeep’s immediate release.

also int’l media—we’ve been speaking about nodeep’s case for weeks. send some reporters to cover this.

@twitter—this is your daily update that your silencing of activists & reporters in india provides cover for the indian gov to commit these exact crimes.

you’re complicit.

https://twitter.com/punyaab/status/1352231031412305920

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