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WTS documents & analyzes state violence in India. Tag/message to report all instances of #StateViolence. Part of @project_polis
Dec 4, 2021 57 tweets 34 min read
#WatchtheState: Our weekly update on patterns of state violence in #India.

Here's a quick review of reported instances of #stateviolence. @project_polis

Follow the thread for more: 👇 Human rights activist Khurram Parvez sent to 3-week judicial custody, shifted to Tihar jail. #Kashmir
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Oct 2, 2021 47 tweets 33 min read
#WatchtheState: Our weekly update on patterns of state violence in #India.

Here's a quick review of reported instances of #stateviolence. @project_polis

Follow the thread for more: #DelhiPogrom: "CCTV Footage In Itself Not Sufficient To Prolong Incarceration": Delhi High Court Grants Bail To Man In Jail For 17 Months.
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Aug 21, 2021 31 tweets 21 min read
#WatchtheState: Our weekly update on patterns of #stateviolence in #India.

Here's a quick review of reported instances of state violence. @project_polis

Follow the thread for more:👇 Delhi Arrested 34 Under #UAPA in 2020. Here's Why the Home Ministry Won't List Them Out: The list comprises 26 Muslims, 21 Sikhs, 1 member of a Scheduled Tribe & 2 Hindus, both of whom were arrested for their role in protests against the #CAA. @thewire_in
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Jul 17, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
Danish Siddiqui documented some of the most critical moments in recent years, including the anti-CAA protests, the NE Delhi Pogrom, the COVID-19 lockdown & the devastating second wave. We are grateful to him for bearing witness & for his extraordinary body of work. Rest in peace. 'I shoot for the common man': Danish Siddiqui's finest work: @Reuters
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Jul 15, 2021 7 tweets 3 min read
On the basis of a Supreme Court order, 10,000 homes are going to be destroyed, rendering 1,00,000 people (including over 5,000+ pregnant women & 20,000+ children) homeless, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic in India. #KhoriGaon
Apr 21, 2021 85 tweets 68 min read
#WatchtheState

In light of the ongoing #COVID19 crisis in India, Watch the State @project_polis is putting out a thread of reported instances of #StateViolence in relation to the #COVIDSecondWave.

Thread: India is running out of oxygen, #Covid19 patients are dying–because the govt wasted time: It took 8 months to invite bids for over 150 #oxygen generation plants. 6 months later, most still aren’t up & running. @psychia90 & @VijaytaL report for @scroll_in.
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Mar 27, 2021 28 tweets 24 min read
#WatchtheState: Our weekly update on patterns of State violence in India.

Here's a quick review of reported instances of State violence. @project_polis

Follow the thread for more: #AllIndiaRadio Has Downgraded National Languages to Regional Ones: The decision to shut down the central news units of #AIR in several Indian languages in Delhi & shift them to their state capitals is in line with the hegemony of Hindi. @thewire_in
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