Kavita Krishnan 3 hrs · Teesta Setalvad was detained in Varanasi for around 10 hours, and is now finally being released by police on condition that she leave Banaras tonight itself.
It's outrageous - seems the PM's constituency is under Emergency. Below is a statement issued by several organizations Condemnation of Arrest of Teesta Setalvad In Varanasi We are shocked and dismayed at the arrest of activist Teesta Setalvad in Varanasi today. Teesta Setalvad was visiting Banaras to attend the Yuva Samta Samvad Shivir organized by the Samajwadi Jan Parishad at Gandhi Sansthan. The UP Government and Banaras city administration must answer why Ms Setalvad has been detained by the police? She has been given no reason for the detention – though some police personnel have expressed the fear that she may visit BHU; and others said she was being detained for “her own protection.” Such a detention is an attack on civil liberties. Has Varanasi – the constituency represented by India’s Prime Minister - been placed under an Emergency, where individuals can be arrested for no crime? Why is the BHU Administration and UP Government looking at the movement of BHU’s women students through a political lens? Why are they unleashing police on women students and arbitrarily detaining activists completely unconnected with the BHU agitation? We demand the release of Teesta Setalvad, and we demand an explanation from the UP Government for her arrest, and for why she was prevented from addressing the youth gathering to which she had been invited. Gargi Chakravarty, NFIW Kavita Krishnan, AIPWA Asha Sharma, AIDWA Rajni Tilak, Rashtriya Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch Poonam Kaushik, PMS Sucheta De, Niraj, AISA Saba Dewan, filmmaker Rahul Roy, filmmaker Bittu Karnataka Janashakti, WSS KN Ramachandran, CPI(ML) Red Star Parth, Sabah K, Savitri Bai Ambedkar Study Circle Payal, DU, WSS Mrigank, IFTU Uma, NAPM Shakeel, Basti Suraksha Manch Archit Krishn, lawyer Arya, KNS Sanjeev Walia, Yamunanagar Shyamhir, IMK, Gurgaon Anupam, Swaraj India -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
