Violence

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• India: Tripura Police of books 102 people, including journalists, under UAPA, for reporting and writing on the recent communal violence
  12 November 2021, by siawi3

  The Editors Guild of India is deeply shocked by the Tripura Police’s action of booking 102 people, including journalists, under the coercive Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, for reporting and writing on the recent communal violence in the state.

• India: Online Petition against Communal Violence in Tripura from Nagrik Adhikar Manch and All India Lawyers Union
  12 November 2021, by siawi3

  We call upon to immediately recall the notice sent under section 41 of the code of criminal procedure mentioned these IPC offences as well-Sections 153A/153B (Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc.), 469 (forgery for purpose of harming information), 503 (Criminal Intimidation), 504 (Intentional insult with intent to provoke the breach of peace) and 120B (Punishment for criminal conspiracy) against the lawyers.

• India: V for Vigilante, T for Terrorist - Is Vigilantism a form of Terrorism?
  13 November 2021, by siawi3

  Surveys indicate that instances of vigilante groups taking the law into their own hands for various reasons connected with inter-faith matters, are on the increase. At the same time, terrorism is a subject of daily reportage.

• USA: ‘Unite The Right’ On Trial In Charlottesville
  14 November 2021, by siawi3

  Attorneys for victims of the ‘Unite the Right’ racist attacks are seeking justice in a civil lawsuit. The lawsuit seeks to prove that the white supremacists were motivated by ‘racial animus’, and organized premeditated violence, which is unlawful and actionable under the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act.

• Palestine: Psychoanalysis with the oppressed
  15 November 2021, by siawi3

  This is revolutionary psychoanalysis, not as a ‘critical social theory’ of the kind that circulates in university departments, and the book takes great care, not to ‘psychologise’ or ‘psychoanalyse’ the political struggle that is the context for the clinical work they describe. They are focused on the practice, practice in context.

• Israel : Plus de 450 attaques de colons contre des Palestiniens depuis 2020 en Cisjordanie
  15 novembre 2021, par siawi3

  Selon B’Tselem, tout comme l’ONG Human Rights Watch, les attaques de colons tiennent en fait d’une « stratégie » de la part d’Israël afin de faire main basse sur « davantage de terres palestiniennes ».

• India: Media -Tripura: Two Journalists Arrested for Covering Communal Violence Get Bail
  15 November 2021, by siawi3

  The Tripura police charged over a hundred people under the UAPA for protesting, but also for simply mentioning the communal violence in the state’s northern districts on various social media platforms.

  Cases have been filed against 68 Twitter accounts, 32 Facebook accounts and two YouTube accounts. The cases, first filed at the West Agartala police station, have since been transferred to the state’s crime branch.

• India: Amravati Communal Violence Victims Say Police’s ’Incompetence’ Made Matters Worse
  15 November 2021, by siawi3

  According to eyewitnesses, the police did not take the matter seriously at first and took too long to respond to the situation. Scathing victims’ testimonies from Amravati in Maharashtra reveal a trail of loss for Hindu and Muslim families alike in the fresh wave of violence to hit the state. They also reveal the alleged incompetence of the local police administration, first in identifying the looming threat of violence and second in deploying adequate police forces in a timely fashion.

• France : Nîmes : réprimandé, le collégien demande à son enseignante si elle connaît Samuel Paty
  20 novembre 2021, par siawi3

  Mis en cause pour acte d’intimidation, l’élève âgé de 14 ans devrait être déféré ce jeudi 18 novembre au parquet de Nîmes.

• UK: Terrorism or mental illness?
  20 November 2021, by siawi3

  Curtis Daly examines the way acts of terror are reported depending on who the perceived perpetrators are and how this fuels the persecution of certain minority groups.

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