Dismantle the structures of sexual violence, NOT the protesters’ tent!

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On the day that the Prime Minister was inaugurating a new Parliament house, democratic space was being crushed outside!

More than 1150+ people including activists, lawyers, academics, former civil servants, artists and concerned citizens have released a statement condemning the brutal police action against the protesting wrestlers and those who had come out in support of their call from all over Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh for a Mahila Samman Mahapanchayat today.

The signatories demand:

1. Immediate arrest of BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh

2. Immediate release of the detained wrestlers and activists

3. Stop trampling on people’s constitutional right to protest against injustice

Prominent among the signatories are:

Current and former Parliamentarians: Jawahar Sircar, Hannan Mollah, Subhashini Ali;

Former bureaucrats: Ardhendu Sen, Aditi Mehta, Abhijit Sengupta;

Lawyers: Sudha Bharadwaj, Indira Jaising, Vrinda Grover, Prashant Bhushan;

Academics: Zoya Hasan, Utsa Patnaik, Prabhat Patnaik, Prabhu Mohapatra, Chitra Joshi, Uma Chakravarti, Jayati Ghosh, Kalyani Menon Sen, Navsharan Singh, Satish Deshpande, Janaki Nair, Roshmi Goswami, Atul Sood, Mary John, Jayati Ghosh, Nandini Sundar;

Journalists: Alishan Jafri, Pamela Philipose, Freny Manekshaw, M Venugopal, Nupur Basu, Darius Taporewala, Revati Laul, Sujata Madhok, Laxmi Murthy, Malini Subramaniam;

Artists: Maya Rao, Mallika Sarabhai, Sheba Chachhi, Anand Patwardhan, Fowzia, Paromita Vohra, Subasri Krishnan;

Activists: Annie Raja, Shabnam Hashmi, Mariam Dhawale, Meera Sanghamatira, Jagmati Sangwan, Arundhuti Dhuru, Kavita Srivastava, Dr Ajita Rao, Nisha Biswas, Apeksha Priyadarshini, Maimoona Mollah, P K Sreemati, Chayanika Shah, Shampa Sengupta, Farah Naqvi, Deepti Bharti, Amrita Johri, Maya John, Shambhavi, Chotebhai, Dr Kochurani Abraham, Purwa Bharadwaj, ElinaHoro, Kavita Kuruganti,
Anjali Bharadwaj, Beena Pallical;

Organisations: Saheli Women’s Resource Centre, Forum Against Oppression of Women(FAOW), MP Mahila Manch, Bahutva Karnataka, Bhagat Singh Ambedkar Student’s Association (BASO), Right to Food Campaign, National Federations of Indian Women (NFIW), All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), Centre for Struggling Women (CSW), Swaraj Abhiyan, The Collective, Peoples’ Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Indian Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), All India Students Association (AISA), JNUSU, Bharat Jan Andolan, National Alliance of Peoples’ Movements (NAPM), The Bombay Catholic Sabha, Act Now for Harmony and Democracy (ANHAD), Adivasi Women’s Network, Maharashtra Hawker Federation, All India Kisan Mazdoor Sabha (AIKMS), Global Bahujan Group, USA, Hindus for Human Rights, Pragatisheel Mahila Sangathan (PMS), Indian Christian Women’s Movement (ICWM), National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR).

For further information, please contact: Email: [email protected]

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