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Ca"M'ying fo-r>Wa-rd the legacy of Shahid Almi and S wapan Da~gupla.. .
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UAPA: .
Criminalizing dissent and the witch-hunt of the oppressed .
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Sharib Ali j .
flh re)~JrChny on UAPA dnd 'Terror' Cases .
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Akhlaque Ahmed ~~, .
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01ll R1qht~ Act1vi~l. APCR .
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K.J. Mukherjee .
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It has been four years since two daring voices, Shahid Azmi and Swapan Dasgupta, who stood by the struggles and rights of the oppressed were ruthlessly silenced by the Indian state. Shahid was assassinated on the 11th February 2010. In another part of the country almost a week earlier, Swapan Dasgupta was killed in a deliberate state sponsored murder in custody. More than their deaths, it is their lives of courage and conviction that .
unites both of them. Shahid Azmi was one of the most daring people's lawyers at a time when the hysteria of the so-called war against terror was at its peak. In his short judicial career spanning 7 years, Shahid Azmi successfully shred apart the heap of lies and propaganda in 17 cases where muslim youth were framed in false terror cases. Having been himself arrested in a false case under TADA at the age of 16, Shahid knew exactly what it meant to be cnarged under a draconian law. This motivated him to read law and by the time he was acquitted Shahid had made his mind to give his life for the defence of the oppressed and humiliated. Shahid did not confine himself to just the courtroom and combined his sharp legal acumen with an active involvement in the democratic rights movement. At the age of 32 he had had withstood many threats to his life and it was this courage and conviction to stand up for the oppressed against all odds that earned him the wrath of the state. He was shot dead at his chamber on 11 February 2010 by the hired goons of the state. At that time, he was handling the defence of over 50 muslims languishing in .
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different jails booked urrder various draconian laws such as UAPA and MCOCA -including the famous Malegaon case which just some months later was conclusively proved to be the handiwork of the sangh-giroh. And going by Aseemanand's latest interview to the Caravan magazine. he had the sanction for these blasts by none other than the top rung of the RSS leadership including Mohan Bhagwat. .
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Swapan Dasgupta was the editor of the Bangia People's March and owner of Radical Publications. At a time .
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when the corporate media has left no stone unturned to vilify people's movements, his publications brought out the .
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reality of revolutionary struggles in the sub-continent and the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist ideological perspective on .
several issues. Inspired by the Naxalbari Spring Thunder, no amount of intimidation could cow him down and he .
remained commrtted to the vision of revolutionary transformation for over three decades. Fer his 'crime' of givin~ .
voice to revolutionary struggles through his publications, Swapan was arrested by the Kolkata Police special branch .
on 71h Oct 2009 under UAPA. The -social fascist CPM branding him a Maoist accused him of being involved in .
publishing a banned periodical, notwithstanding the fact that the government had lifted the ban from the magazine .
just a couple of months earlier. At the time of his arrest, he was terminally ill with blood cancer, asthma and leprosy. .
Despite his serious illnesses, he was incarcerated in appalling conditions, the police subjected him to cruel mental .
and physical torture (at times not allowing him to sleep for days) and denied him blood transfusion or even .
medicines and a proper diet. A few days before his death, his friends who visrted him in jail noticed blood oozing .
from his mouth because of denial of medicines. Several civil rights organizations in Kolkata protested accusing the .
government of political persecution of dissident voices which was driving Swapan to death. As a result of the .
continuing mental and physical torture, Swapan breathed his last on 2nd Feb 2010 even before his trial began. He .
was the first martyr to die in custody under the draconian UAPA. .
In this farce of a democracy, as the Latin American writer Eduardo Galeano puts it, 'justice is a snake that .
bites only-.the barefooted.' The life histories of Shahid and Swapan are no aberrations but the rule, and the laws .
and 'justice' of the rulers in an unjust society always go against the oppressed. Even as communal-mass murderers, .
corporate looters and scamsters roam free and their activities are perfectly lawful, all those who have questioned .
injustice and exploitation are declared 'unlawful' and a threat to 'order. They are hounded, jailed, to1iured or simply .
assassinated. Amongst the many laws and provisions that the state has employed to quell the various aspirations of .
the people, the amended version of the UAPA stands out in the recent past. .
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The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) was first enacted in 1967 in the context of a growing .
economic and political crisis and to suppress the several movements for statehood in different parts of the .
country. It was the first central law that empowered the central government to ban organizations. Modeled along th{ .
b~ack law Armed Forces Special Powers Ordinance (1942). it is one of the many laws and provisions of colonial .
~1ntage that has been taken over by the Indian ruling class from the British. The UAPA is not the only draconian law .
10 the arsenal of the Indian state and in the past six decades, it has framed several draconian laws from MISA .
AFSPA, T ADA, POTA, MCOCA, PSA, Chattisgarh Public Security Act to quell various people's movements. Th~ .
gro_ss _violations of human rights and targeting of minorities in the name of fighting 'terror' and that of adivasis and .
dahts 1n the name of curbing Naxalism under TADA and POTA are extremely well documented. These led to a huge .
outrage a~ongst the people who demanded the repeal of these black laws to be repealed. Even though POTA was .
repealed 1_n 2004 by the UPA government that came to power then. almost all of its draconian provisions were very .
shrewdly Inserted through a series of amendments to the existing UAPA. Since then. UAPA has been .
. amended two more times-in 2008 using the 26/11 attacks as an excuse and once again in 2012 (at P.T.o .
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The word [serendipity] was coined by that curious man Sir Horace Walpole, known today (if at all) as one of the founders of the "Gothic" tale of suspense and terror, but more famously in his own time as an especially elegant and proficient writer of letters. In a 1754 letter to a friend he describes his discovery of some curious Venetian coat of arms and pauses to say that "this discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity." And then he explains this "very expressive word" of his own invention: "I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip'"--Serendip being an old name for Sri Lanka: "as their Highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of... (for you must observe that no discovery of a thing you are looking for comes under this description)." The finding of what one is not looking for will be the element of the letter most obviously relevant to what I've been saying so far; but equally important is the phrase "by accidents and sagacity," or, as Walpole puts it later in the same letter, "accidental sagacity."
From The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs.
O Conjunto Documental “Insurreição de Escravos Malês” Custodiado pelo Arquivo Público da Bahia
Importante destacar a existência do documento "Rol dos Culpados", arrolados pelo Escrivão Teles. No documento foi nominativamente listado os 289 nomes de libertos ou escravos suspeitos, com dados múltiplos (procedência; distrito; condição - presos e/ou soltos) inclusive as sentenças. Sobre o documento, Professor João José Reis, da Universidade Federal da Bahia, escreveu o artigo - "O "Rol dos Culpados": notas sobre um documento da rebelião de 1835 - publicado nos Anais do APB, vol. 48/1985. Neste mesmo trabalho, apresenta uma lista de 25 nomes, com base nos processos individuais dos africanos não incluídos no "Rol de Culpados" do Escrivão Teles.
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