Monday, January 6, 2014

political prisoners in India - Release Comrade Hem immediately & unconditionally! - Resist the threat of arrest, intimidation & attempts to silence GN Saibaba - 25 january International day ICSPWI

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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