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The Innocence Network will takeover this handle from 7-9pm tomorrow IST to live tweet this event! #IndiasWarOfTerror

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Image is an event poster with a white background. Top left corner has a logo, a red circle with four vertical white lines and one white line slashing through it, with “innocence network” underneath. Top right has a red semi-circle and (2/n)

text wrapped around the bottom that reads: “Innocence Network’s Deliberation on Civil Liberties”. The title in caps reads: “Second Annual Conference” in blue & “India’s War of Terror” in red. (3/n)

Below is list of three speakers with face photos on left, names & talk titles on right: Manisha Sethi, “Anti Terror Laws and the Crises of Indian Democracy”; Veena Das, “The Reality of Torture-Reflections on Begunah Qaidi”; Usha Ramanathan, “Putting liberty back on the map” (4/n)

Next line reads “Moderated By: Sharib A Ali”. Bottom right has a yellow donut shape which reads “Book Release: Abdul Wahid Sheikh’s Innocent Prisoners (Begunah Qaidi)”. Next line reads: Sunday, 11th July 2021, 7-9pm, Zoom meeting ID: 5225223411, Password 1234.

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Innocence Network India is a collective of individuals & orgs working on wrongful & malicious prosecution under charges of terrorism. The Network is facilitated by exonerees along with senior members of the legal fraternity policy practitioners, and civil liberties groups. 7/n

Dr. Manisha Sethi is a writer, sociologist and professor. She is also the author of “Kafkaland: Law, Prejudice and Counterterrorism in India”. Read a piece by her: magazine.outlookindia.com/story/india-ne… 8/n

Dr. Veena Das is an anthropologist and a professor at John Hopkins University. Her work on ethnography, the everyday, collective violence, and state have been critical to contemporary thought. Here's a piece by her on torture and Indian democracy: at-commons.com/2019/11/24/whe… 9/n

Usha Ramanathan is a legal researcher, writer, and human rights activist whose worked on poverty, labour, and civil liberties. She has been an important critic of Aadhar for its violation of the right to privacy. Here's an interview with her 10/n lawschoolpolicyreview.com/2019/01/26/ret…

Abdul Wahid Sheikh is a school teacher. He is the writer of "Begunah Qaidi/ Innocent Prisoner" which documents his experience of spending 9 years in prison on false charges & draws attention to the routine use of various forms of torture and impunity: thewire.in/law/abdul-wahi… 11/n