A Statement Issued by New Socialist Initiative (NSI) on the recent
arrests of human rights defenders and public intellectuals
New
Socialist Initiative strongly condemns the arbitrary and malicious manner in
which the Pune Police, at the behest of its saffron masters, raided the houses
of leading human rights activists, lawyers, professors and poets in different
cities simultaneously and arrested five of them - SudhaBharadwaj,
GautamNavlakha, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves and VaravaraRao - under
concocted charges.
Demanding
immediate release of all these persons unconditionally and withdrawal of
fabricated charges filed against them under the draconian Unlawful Activities
Prevention Act (UAPA) , it also said that appropriate action should be taken
against the guilty policemen as well involved in this act.
