[WSMDiscuss] India in movement…, Activists in movement…. : Fwd: Delhi Sub Inspector threatens activist - 'If you don't have aadhaar or address proof you should be surrounded and killed'

Sun Jul 16 07:19:23 CEST 2017

This is truly shocking, distressing - and yet a further reason why our movements need grounding in an analysis of patriarchalism.
Ariel

On 16 Jul 2017, at 5:22 AM, JS CACIM <jai.sen at cacim.net> wrote:

Saturday, July 15, 2017

India in movement…, Activists in movement….; the state of India today….

[This is just some initial information on a grim situation.  Activist Shabnam Hashmi in India – the founder of Anhad who has recently stepped down and is now working with another voluntary organisation, Pehchan - has been threatened with an encounter death by a Sub Inspector of Police – merely because, he said, she doesn't have an Aadhaar card, the so-called ‘UID’ (unique identification document) that the government of India is relentlessly forcing on all citizens and even though the scheme is controversial, has been challenged in court and the Supreme Court of India is still hearing the case – and where it now clearly seems to have become / been made a dangerous article of faith within the machinery of the Indian state :

Delhi Sub Inspector threatens activist : ‘If you don’t have aadhaar or address proof you should be surrounded and killed’

Shabnam Hashmi, via Kamayani Bali Mahabal

[See also further below for the text of Shabnam Hashmi’s Facebook post and the link to her page.]

            Thanks for posting this Kamayani (and also Babu at Activism News Network), and with deep repect for your courage Shabnam, and in rage and solidarity –

            JS

fwd

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Kamayani <kamayni at gmail.com>
> Subject: [ANN:6141] : Delhi Sub Inspector threatens activist - If you dont have aadhaar or address proof you should be surrounded and killed
> Date: July 14, 2017 at 1:11:23 PM CST
> To: undisclosed-recipients:;
> Reply-To: activism-news-network at googlegroups.com
> 
> जिसका आधार नंबर और एड्रेस नहीं है हम उसे कहीं भी ख़तम कर सकते हैं’
> ‘एक अभियान चल रहा है घेरो और मारो’
> Sub Inspector threatens  activist   Shabnam Hashmi 
> 
> http://www.kractivist.org/delhi-sub-inspector-threatens-activist-if-you-dont-have-aadhaar-or-address-proof-you-should-be-surrounded-and-killed/
> 
> -- 
> Kamayani Bali Mahabal
> +919820749204
> skype-lawyercumactivist
>  
> Hey folks, coined this term ” Kracktivism “, check out my blog   
> 
> http://www.kractivist.org/kracktivism-2/
> 
> Blog for Political prisoners https://indiapoliticalprisoners.wordpress.com
> 
> Blog for Girl child-  http://fassmumbai.wordpress.com/  
> 
> Blog for Kashmir -http://kashmirsolidaritymumbai.wordpress.com/
> 
> https://twitter.com/#!/Kracktivist
> 
> https://www.facebook.com/kamayani 
> 
> *I carry a torch in one hand
> And a bucket of water in the other:
> With these things I am going to set fire to Heaven
> And put out the flames of Hell
> So that voyagers to God can rip the veils
> And see the real goal.......
> Rabia (Rabi'a Al-'Adawiyya)

https://www.facebook.com/shabnamhashmi/videos/vb.677416374/10154846788396375/?type=2&theater

URGENT PRESS RELEASE

‘जिसका आधार नंबर और एड्रेस नहीं है हम उसे कहीं भी ख़तम कर सकते हैं’
‘एक अभियान चल रहा है घेरो और मारो’

Sub Inspector threatens to kill

The conversation and the 'Sub Inspectors' ’ threats raise serious questions which the Government of the day and the Police Commissioner must answer.

Pehchan , a voluntary organisation, of whom I am a founding Trustee runs a small centre in Jaitpur Extension, New Delhi and teaches school drop outs every year, coaches them to appear for 10th and 12th from Jamia. It also runs sewing classes for women.

I received a call from Director of Pehchan coaching centre at 8.59pm. She told me that Haseen husband of one of the women (Mubina) , who had learnt stitching at our centre, got a call from a man who said that he was calling from the Lajpat Nagar police station and was a sub inspector. He threatened Haseen and called him to the police station regarding some complaint. She gave me SI’s name and number.

Usually when someone is called at night we do try and call up the police officer concerned, try and arrange a lawyer to go with whoever has been called to the police station.

I did the same. Unfortunately my telephone did not have a call recorder downloaded. The conversation which was full of abuses, using highly derogatory and uncivilized language could not be recorded. I cut the phone after 15 minutes or so and downloaded a call recorder quickly. In between the person who claimed to be the Sub Inspector Sandip Malik from Lajpat Nagar Police Station called 4 times but I didn’t pick up the phone till the recorder was downloaded.

I am attaching the recording which is self explanatory. The earlier conversation was a lot more threatening and abusive as compared to what has been recorded. I was directly threatened that I will be killed in an encounter and that there is the new law according to which whoever doesn’t have an aadhaar and address proof should be surrounded and killed (‘एक अभियान चल रहा है घेरो और मारो’ ).

The man who claimed to be the sub inspector called from mobile no 7065824289.

The conversation and the Sub Inspectors’ threat raise serious questions which the Government of the day and the Police Commissioner must answer.

______________________________

Jai Sen

jai.sen at cacim.net

www.cacim.net / http://www.openword.net.in

Now based in New Delhi, India (+91-98189 11325) and in Ottawa, Canada, on unceded Anishinaabe territory (+1-613-282 2900) 

Recent publications :

Jai Sen, ed, 2016  – The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us Move ? (forthcoming in 2017 from New Delhi : OpenWord and Oakland, CA : PM Press), ADVANCE PREFINAL ONLINE MOVEMENT EDITION @ www.cacim.net

Jai Sen, ed, 2013 – The Movements of Movements : Struggles for Other Worlds, Part I. Prefinal version of Volume 4 Part I in the Challenging Empires series. New Delhi : OpenWord.  Prefinal version 1.0 available @ http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/the_movements_of_movements/

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS  :

Jai Sen, ed, 2017a – The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us Move ?.  Volume 4 in the Challenging Empires series (New Delhi : OpenWord and Oakland, CA : PM Press).  Available for pre-order at PM Press

&

Jai Sen, ed, 2017b – The Movements of Movements, Part 2 : Rethinking Our Dance.  Volume 5 in the Challenging Empires series (New Delhi : OpenWord and Oakland, CA : PM Press)

CHECK OUT CACIM @ www.cacim.net, OpenWord @ http://www.openword.net.in, and OpenSpaceForum @ www.openspaceforum.net

AND SUBSCRIBE TO World Social Movement Discuss, an open, unmoderated, and self-organising forum for the exchange of information and views on the experience, practice, and theory of social and political movement at any level (local, national, regional, and global), including the World Social Forum.  To subscribe, simply send an empty email to wsm-discuss-subscribe at lists.openspaceforum.net

________________________________________
** Inspired by the World Social Forum, WSMDiscuss – the successor to a list named ‘WSFDiscuss’ started in 2005 - is an open, unmoderated, and self-organising forum for the exchange of information and views on the experience, practice, and theory of social and political movement at any level (local, national, regional, and global), including the World Social Forum.  Join in ! **
_______________________________________________
World Social Movement Discuss mailing list
POST to LIST : Send email to wsm-discuss at lists.openspaceforum.net
SUBSCRIBE : Send empty email to wsm-discuss-subscribe at lists.openspaceforum.net
UNSUBSCRIBE : Send empty email to wsm-discuss-unsubscribe at lists.openspaceforum.net
LIST ARCHIVES : https://lists.openspaceforum.net/pipermail/wsm-discuss/
LIST INFORMATION : https://lists.openspaceforum.net/mailman/listinfo/wsm-discuss
POSTING GUIDELINES : http://openspaceforum.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=Mailing+List+Posting+Guidelines
Old / previous WSFDiscuss List Archives : http://openspaceforum.net/pipermail/worldsocialforum-discuss_openspaceforum.net/