BRASIL: Down to the persecution against Professor GN Saibaba, from New Delhi University!
The Brazilian Centre of Solidarity to the
Peoples (CEBRASPO) strongly condemns the arbitrary action of the Indian forces
of repression, in another desperate attempt to silence the voices of dissidence.
On Sept. 12, 2013, the house of Professor GN Saibaba, was raided by 50 agents
whit the pretext to search “stolen materials”.
In the arbitrary operation, the agents prevented
Professor Saibaba and his family from go out home, receiving visitors, making
and receiving phone calls and contact an attorney. They didn’t found any stolen
material and went out from Saibaba’s house carrying personal belongings of the
family, including mobile phones, pen-drives and copies of publications of the
Revolutionary Democratic Front of India (RDF), the organization on which Dr.
Saibaba is secretary.
The Indian state with its common practices and
increasingly recurrent persecution, killings, arbitrary arrests and baseless accusations
against the defenders of the people's struggle, try to stop the struggle of a
people who will not surrender in the face of intimidation and harassment.
Because of his choice to work in behalf of
people, his effort to denounce the Operation Green Hunt, his work as an
academic professor, his democratic and committed role on the defense of Indian
people in the struggle against oppression, violence and misery, we pay our solidarity
and respect to Professor GN Saibaba. We also condemn the fascist Indian state
for their crimes against the people and their leaders and declare that the
Brazilian people stand in support of the Indian people in their just struggle
for national and social liberation.
CEBRASPO - Brazilian Centre of Solidarity to
the PeoplesSeptember 18, 2013 .
Another messages and signatures in solidarity with Dr. GN Saibaba,
received by Cebraspo
1. I join the demonstrations of
solidarity with the Professor Saibaba. Manaus, Amazonia, Brazil on September,
16th, 2013. Ennio Candotti (Kalinga Awarded 1999).
Ennio Candotti
- President of the Amazon Museum and vice president and honorary president of
the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science – SBPC
2. Virgínia
Fontes - Professor of History of the Federal Fluminense University / Rio de
Janeiro - Brazil)
3. I sympathize with Professor Saibaba
and join other Brazilian intellectuals who repudiate the action of repression
and attempts of the Indian state to criminalize the professor because of his
activism in social movements in India.
Nazira Camely
- Department of Economics, Federal Fluminense University / Rio de Janeiro –
Brazil
4. I declare my support to the
Professor Saibaba, who has been the victim of police persecution in India
because of his support of revolutionary struggle in that country.
Alisson Diôni Gomes (Teacher of Basic Education, Technical and Technological Area [IFRO];
Master in Regional Development and Environment [UNITE]; Bachelor of Information
Technology and Majoring in Social Sciences [UNITE])
5. I’m sending my solidarity against the
repression against Professor GN Saibaba, a professor of English Literature at
the Delhi University (Ram Lal Anand College).
Dr. Carlos Gómez Gil (Director - Master in Development and Cooperation at the Alicante
University - Department of Economic Analysis - Alicante, Spain)
6. Victor
O. Martin, Professor, Department of Geography, University of La Laguna
(Canary Islands, Spain) express solidarity with the Professor GN Saibaba, a
professor of English Literature at the University of Delhi (Ram Lal Anand College)
in the face of unjustified persecution of the Indian authorities against him
due to his political beliefs.
7. Solidarity with Professor GN Saibaba
– Delhi University
Through this letter we express our
solidarity with Professor G. N. Saibaba, Professor of English Literature at the
Delhi University (Ram Lal University Anad). Saibaba is suffering political and
police persecution, due to the fact that he has expressed his support and
advocacy on behalf of the tribal peoples in India.
We know that the persecution against
the Professsor Saibaba, with the police raid on his home had the clear
objective of confiscating intellectual material produced by him and stored in
different electronic media (external memory, hd computer and other objects).
This only shows that there is an unjustified persecution against Saibaba due
his choice in favor of the persecuted, imprisoned and tortured in his country,
accused to support the revolutionary struggle.
Our support and solidarity to the
Professor G.N. Saibaba, his family and the intellectuals of India that follow,
from the democratic camp, the ideas and university education, the situation of
the persecuted tribal people.
We believe that the university
should be a democratic space of struggle of ideas, not a space subjected to the
surveillance, censorship and repressive persecution.
We will stay waiting for more
information on the situation of Professor GN Saibaba. GISAS – Bolivia
8. The Brazilian Association of People's Lawyers (Abrapo) solidarizes with
Professor G. N. Saibaba, from New Delhi University (Ram Lal Anad College), in
India, who had his house raided by 50 policemen in last September 12. The
agents stayed in the house, which is inside university campus, for more than 4
hours, where there were the professor, his wife, mother in law and 15 years old
daughter, and didn't even leave with the protests of other professors that
demanded the removal. They took cellphones, USB keys, computer hard disk and
other objects.
Professor G. N. Saibaba is a
defender of tribal people in India, who have been harassed, detained, tortured
and evicted of their lands by Indian State.
This domicile violation fact
constitutes a persecution of a human rights defender, in blatant violation of
UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, or "1998 Declaration on the
Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to
Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental
Freedoms", which states, on art. 11:
"Everyone has the right,
individually and in association with others, to the lawful exercise of his or
her occupation or profession. Everyone who, as a result of his or her
profession, can affect the human dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms
of others should respect those rights and freedoms and comply with relevant
national and international standards of occupational and professional conduct
or ethics."
And art. 12, paragraph 2, asserts:
"The State shall take all
necessary measures to ensure the protection by the competent authorities of
everyone, individually and in association with others, against any violence,
threats, retaliation, de facto or de jure adverse discrimination, pressure or
any other arbitrary action as a consequence of his or her legitimate exercise
of the rights referred to in the present Declaration."
Abrapo understands that, aside a
human rights defender offence, this fact constitutes violation of academic
freedom and university autonomy, guaranteed by International Law and conquered
after centuries of struggles in university institutions worldwide, remembering
that these principles are derived from opinion and expression freedoms, and
protections to free exercise of profession, all principles universally assured.
Beyond solidarize with Professor G.
N. Saibaba, Abrapo denounces this police operation in charge of Indian State,
and unite to other Indian and international organizations to demand
accountability and punishment of responsibles, full reparation of damages, and
guarantees of non-repetition, to assure that Professor G. N. Saibaba never more
suffers any kind of persecution on account of his views and manifestations and
his professional exercise.
Brazilian Association of People's Lawyers
9. Carlos Walter
Portogonçalves –
Postgraduation Professor in Geography at the Federal Fluminense University, Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil.
10. José
Alves - Professor of the Geography Department at the Federal University of
Acre (Amazon - Brazil)
11. Antonio
Thomaz Júnior – Professsor on postgraduation program at UNESP (São Paulo -
Brazil)
12. Ariovaldo
Umbelino de Oliveira - Postgraduation Professor in Geography at the São
Paulo University (São Paulo, Brazil)
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