[WSMDiscuss] Fwd: International Feminist solidarity/Solidaridad Internacional Feminista - con feministas de la India/with Indian feminists Devangana Kalita and/y Natasha Narwal

Wed May 27 21:38:41 CEST 2020

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

International solidarity in movement…, Resistance in movement…

[With apologies for any duplications, but this is urgent :

International Feminist solidarity / Solidaridad Internacional Feminista - con feministas de la India/with Indian feminists Devangana Kalita and/y Natasha Narwal

            In solidarity,

            JS

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> From: Jessica Martinez-Cruz <katajes at gmail.com>
> Subject: {Ubuntu} International Feminist solidarity/Solidaridad Internacional Feminista - con feministas de la India/with Indian feminists Devangana Kalita and/y Natasha Narwal
> Date: May 26, 2020 at 6:22:39 PM EDT
> To: Crisis de Civilizacion Y Paradigmas Alternativos <crisis-de-civilizacion-y-paradigmas-alternativos at googlegroups.com>
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Please read and sign below /por favor lea y firme abajo

We, the undersigned feminists, community activists and academics from around the world stand in solidarity with Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal who are being held as part of the Narendra Modi government’s brutal clampdown on dissent against the deeply discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). The government is taking advantage of the dispersion caused by the COVID19 crisis. 

Nosotras/xs las personas abajo firmantes, como feministas, activistas comunitarias y académicas de distintas partes del mundo, nos solidarizamos con Devangana Kalita y Natasha Narwal, detenidas como parte de la ola de represión contra el movimiento nacional de protesta por la naturaleza profundamente discriminatoria del Acta de Enmienda a la Ciudadanía (CAA en ingles) y del Registro Nacional de Ciudadanos (NRC) impulsados por gobierno Indio de Narendra Modi. 

Devangana and Natasha are feminist activists and founding members of the Pinjra Tod -‘Break the cage’ collective (For more info: https://www.facebook.com/pinjratod <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/pinjratod&sa=D&ust=1590535167603000&usg=AFQjCNHlGA3XaLHBAV9up3-ES7DAVAq2kw>)
made up of women students fighting for their rights. Devangana studies an MPhil at Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Natasha is a doctoral student at the Centre for Historical Studies, at the same university. 

Devangana y  Natasha son activistas feministas, miembras fundadoras del colectivo Pinjra Tod (Rompe la Jaula https://www.facebook.com/pinjratod <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/pinjratod&sa=D&ust=1590535167603000&usg=AFQjCNHlGA3XaLHBAV9up3-ES7DAVAq2kw>) compuesto por mujeres estudiantes que luchan por sus derechos. Devangana estudia un MPhil en el Centro de Estudios de las Mujeres en la Universidad Jawaharlal Nehru, y Natasha estudia un doctorado en el Centro de Estudios Históricos en la misma universidad. 

According to the Pinjra Tod collective, the two feminist activists were arrested without prior notice by the Delhi Crime Branch and Jaffrabad Police Station in association with the peaceful anti-CAA sit-in protests at the Jaffrabad Metro station on February 22, 2020. Three months after this event, Devangana and Natasha were arrested by the Delhi Police from their homes at 5.30 pm on 23rd May. They were presented before the Duty Magistrate at Mandaoli jail on May 24th and were granted bail, with the magistrate observing that “the accused were merely protesting against NRC and CAA and did not indulge in any violence”. 

Según el colectivo Pinjra Tod, las dos activistas feministas fueron arrestadas sin ningún preaviso legal por el Departamento de Criminalística de Delhi y la Estación Policial de Jaffrabad, acto vinculado con las protestas pacificas de ocupación contra la CAA en la Estación de Metro de Jaffrabad el 22 de Febrero del ano corriente. Tres meses después, Se detuvieron a Devangana y Natasha en sus casas a las 5:30 de la tarde el 23 de Mayo. Las presentaron frente al Magistrado de turno en la cárcel de Mandaoli el 24 de Mayo quien les dio libertad bajo fianza, y observó que “las acusadas simplemente protestaban contra el NRC y la CAA y no se involucraron en ninguna violencia”.

However, immediately after this order, police officials from the crime branch moved a fresh application seeking arrest and 14 days police custody. This includes grave charges such as attempt to murder, criminal conspiracy, rioting and obstruction and assault of public servant while discharging duty and sections under the Arms Act. Two days of police custody remand has been subsequently granted, while rejecting the request for 14 days police custody remand. These arrests com after two months of brutal repress with the detention of students Safoora Zargar and Meeran Haider, activists Ishrat Jahan, Khalid Saifi and Gulfisha Fatima and hundreds of other Muslim youth as a means of punishing the widespread protests against the CAA-NRC.

No obstante, inmediatamente después de la orden judicial, oficiales policiales del Departamento de Criminalística impulsaron una nueva aplicación por el re-arresto de ellas y 14 días de detención policial. Incluye nuevas cargas muy graves contra ellas incluyendo el intento de asesinato, conspiración criminal, alteración violenta del orden publico,  y la obstrucción y agresión a un funcionario publico que cumplía con su deber y otras secciones bajo el Acto sobre Armas. Como consecuencia se otorgaron dos días mas de prisión preventiva, mientras se rechazaban los 14 días de retención carcelaria. Estos arrestos forman parte de dos meses de represión brutal con la detención de las estudiantes Safoora Zargar y Meeran Haider, lxs activistxs Ishrat Jahan, Khalid Saifi and Gulfisha Fatima y otras personas de la juventud musulmana, como medidas de castigo contra las protestas amplias contra la CAA-NRC. 

We demand that the unfair and false charges against Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal be dropped and that they be immediately and unconditionally released along with other peaceful protesters from the nationwide movement against the Citizenship Amendment Act CAA and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). 

Exigimos que los cargos injustos y falsos contra ellas se descarten y que se otorgue su libertad inmediata incondicional junto a lxs otrxs manifestantes pacificxs del movimiento nacional contra la Acta de Enmienda a la Ciudadanía (CAA en ingles) y el Registro Nacional de Ciudadanos (NRC).

In solidarity/En solidaridad
The undersigned/las y lxs abajo firmantes:

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____________________________

Jai Sen

Independent researcher, editor; Senior Fellow at the School of International Development and Globalisation Studies at the University of Ottawa

jai.sen at cacim.net <mailto:jai.sen at cacim.net>
Now based in New Delhi, India (+91-98189 11325) and in Ottawa, Canada, on unceded and unsurrendered Anishinaabe territory (+1-613-282 2900) 

CURRENT / RECENT publications :

Jai Sen, ed, 2018a – The Movements of Movements, Part 2 : Rethinking Our Dance. Ebook and hard copy available at PM Press <http://www.pmpress.org/>
Jai Sen, ed, 2018b – The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us Move ? (Indian edition). New Delhi : AuthorsUpfront, in collaboration with OpenWord and PM Press.  Hard copy available at MOM1AmazonIN <https://www.amazon.in/dp/9387280101/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1522884070&sr=8-2&keywords=movements+of+movements+jai+sen>, MOM1Flipkart <https://www.flipkart.com/the-movements-of-movements/p/itmf3zg7h79ecpgj?pid=9789387280106&lid=LSTBOK9789387280106NBA1CH&marketplace=FLIPKART&srno=s_1_1&otracker=search&fm=SEARCH&iid=ff35b702-e6a8-4423-b014-16c84f6f0092.9789387280106.SEARCH&ppt=Search%20Page>, and MOM1AUpFront <http://www.authorsupfront.com/movements.htm>
Jai Sen, ed, 2017 – The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us Move ?.  New Delhi : OpenWord and Oakland, CA : PM Press.  Ebook and hard copy available at PM Press <http://www.pmpress.org/>
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