[Marxistindia] Condemn These Arrests
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Mon Sep 14 16:57:25 IST 2020
September 14, 2020
Press Statement
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued
the following statement:
Condemn These Arrests
The arrest of Umar Khalid under the provisions of the draconian UAPA
is condemnable. This comes following the detention, under UAPA, of
Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita (JNU), Ishrat Jahan, a former
Councillor of the Congress Party, Jamia students Meeran Haider also an
RJD youth leader, Asif Tanha, Safoora Zagar and Gulfisha Fatima and
Shifr-ul-Rehman.
Top BJP leaders who made hate speeches and incited violence are
protected by the Central Government, while young peaceful protesters
against the CAA are being targeted and arrested citing the utterly
manufactured version of the country’s Home Ministry and the Delhi
Police linking anti-CAA protests with communal violence. The Central
Government must stop the practice of the Special Branch summoning
anti-CAA activists for questioning and trying to coerce them into
implicating those targeted by the Home Ministry and the Police.
The use of UAPA is to block the normal processes of justice by which
they would have been out on bail since, as many of the lower courts
have mentioned, there is not a shred of evidence against any of them
for inciting violence. The arrests constitute an assault on the
constitutional guarantees of the democratic right to dissent.
The CPI(M) has opposed the CAA-NRC-NPR from the beginning both in
Parliament and outside in multiple protests throughout the country. It
reiterates its strong opposition. It expresses its solidarity with all
those facing the repression of the Central Government. It demands the
release of all those arrested under UAPA in the Delhi communal
violence case.
Recent developments point to the urgent necessity of an independent
investigation, under a retired judge, into the causes of the violence
as against the biased investigation being conducted by the Delhi
police under Union Home Ministry’s guidance.
For CPI(M) Central Committee Office
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