Release Comrade Hem immediately & unconditionally! Fight against the state’s attempts to silence those who dare to dissent! Resist the tightening noose of fascism in a state of undeclared emergency!
Resist the threat of arrest, intimidation & attempts to silence a known professor, intellectual, democratic right activist GN Saibaba by the Maharashtra police!
GN
Saibaba, a Professor of English in DU, a public intellectual and Joint
Secretary of Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF), has been in the receiving
end of threats, intimidations and media-trials from the state forces for a long
time. Once again he is being threatened with arrest by the Maharshtra police
who would come to his residence on the 7th of January supposedly to
“interrogate” him. Ever since the unjust and arbitrary arrest of Hem
Mishra, cultural activist and member of DSU, there has been a concerted attempt
on the part of the state forces to manufacture some or the other fabricated
story to justify the prolonged incarceration of Hem and arrest GN Saibaba. We are familiar with such
fabricated stories used by the intelligence to wage its “war on terror’ on the
Muslims or to silence democratic & revolutionary voices. His house was
arbitrarily raided and ransacked by a 50 member squad comprising the joint
Intelligence, the notorious NIA and the Delhi Special Cell, Gadchirolli police
& Delhi police combine on the 12th of September last year with a
ridiculous search warrant of looking for “stolen property”. This evoked
widespread protest supported by DUTA and other teachers, students,
intellectuals and democratic right activists like Arundhati Roy, Amit Bhaduri,
Harish Dhawan, Manoranjan Mohanty, SAR Geelani, AK Ramakrishnan, Saroj Giri, Karen
Gabriel, PK Vijayan, DUTA president Nandita Narain, and many others. After
the raid, the Maharashtra police called Dr. Saibaba to come ‘anywhere outside
Delhi’ for interrogation. This was followed by an intervention by the National Human
Rights Commission (NHRC) sending a notice to the Maharashtra and Delhi police
asking them to respond for asking a physically challenged person to present
himself in this manner despite the law clearly stating that such a person need
not present himself anywhere outside his residence. Despite repeated
threats, G.N. Saibaba has been in the forefront in Delhi speaking up against
the anti-people designs of the state and particularly against Operation Green
Hunt. Hence this consorted attempt to target him. It is the responsibility of
every democratic minded person to resist such fascist & McCarthyian means
of silencing dissent in the urban avatar of Green Hunt.
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