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- PRASHANT RAHI
Heart-felt greetings at the onset of yet another tumultuous years of struggle
for civil and democratic rights, which are increasingly threatened the world
over by police atrocities perpetrated here as a normal course, and there as
barbaric exceptions, in a setting of the yet retained post- 9/11 anti-terror
laws in India and other parts, even though the U.S. imperialists seem to be
back-tracking on their aggressive invasions in Iraq and Af-Pak! We, Indian
activists, remain vulnerable, with none of the Parliamentary political forces
even bothering to promise to repeal the 2008 and 2004 amendments in our
Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act – UAPA of 1967, which was indeed
superfluous with the colonial Indian Penal Code (IPC)
already draconian enough to stifle any serious political dissent. My arrest and
torture in custody, as also that of Hem Mishra, the J.N.U. student of Chinese,
which so many of you have cared to express concern about, according to newspaper reports, could be just the tip of an ugly iceberg. Even
so, you might need to be apprised of the facts of our cases, and those of my
ongoing Uttarakhand post-torture trial, so as to direct the raging passions in
more effective ways.
- PRASHANT RAHI
Heart-felt greetings at the onset of yet another tumultuous years of struggle for civil and democratic rights, which are increasingly threatened the world over by police atrocities perpetrated here as a normal course, and there as barbaric exceptions, in a setting of the yet retained post- 9/11 anti-terror laws in India and other parts, even though the U.S. imperialists seem to be back-tracking on their aggressive invasions in Iraq and Af-Pak! We, Indian activists, remain vulnerable, with none of the Parliamentary political forces even bothering to promise to repeal the 2008 and 2004 amendments in our Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act – UAPA of 1967, which was indeed superfluous with the colonial Indian Penal Code (IPC) already draconian enough to stifle any serious political dissent. My arrest and torture in custody, as also that of Hem Mishra, the J.N.U. student of Chinese, which so many of you have cared to express concern about, according to newspaper reports, could be just the tip of an ugly iceberg. Even so, you might need to be apprised of the facts of our cases, and those of my ongoing Uttarakhand post-torture trial, so as to direct the raging passions in more effective ways.
