India expels 3 Chinese journalists for trying to gain access to restricted areas

[FOOLS_NIGHTMARE]

I'm talking about those that are not mainly based on our media.

But i think 99.99% of my threads are based on your media.

 

[PradoTLC]

Its by impatient state chief minister for calling him puppet not by Modi. Later Released by High court.
Modi simply did not care for his criticism.

you ask for one case .... i showed one case depicting how intolerant your BJP is.. now you are making up excuses?.

what a true indian

 

[Chhatrapati]

But i think 99.99% of my threads are based on your media.

More like half of it, and Ajay Shoekla or Ashok Swine then some on your own satellite reads. Besides, that Gujarat invasion really stuck with me, thanks for it, it was a great read.

 

[PradoTLC]

India: Charged with anti-terror law, pregnant woman sent to jail
Safoora Zargar who was behind anti-CAA protests stands accused of being a key 'conspirator' in the February Delhi riots.

by Valay Singh
26 Apr 2020

Zargar was associated with the Jamia Coordination Committee, which organised weeks of peaceful protests in the capital against a citizenship law passed last December [courtesy of Zargar's family]
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Safoora Zargar, a research scholar from Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) university, spent her first day of Ramadan in the high-security Tihar jail in the Indian capital, New Delhi.

The 27-year old, in the second trimester of her first pregnancy, was arrested on April 10 and subsequently charged under the stringent anti-terror law, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 2019 (UAPA), by the Delhi police.

More:

• Does CAA comply with India's human rights obligations?

• Interactive: Profiles of 53 killed in Delhi violence

• India defends CAA after UN rights chief approaches Supreme Court

Zargar was associated with the Jamia Coordination Committee (JCC), which organised weeks of peaceful protests in the capital against a citizenship law passed last December.

Activists say the Citizen Amendment Act (CAA) discriminates against the country's 180 million Muslim minority and runs against the country's secular constitution.

Police accuse Zargar of being a key "conspirator" in the February violence that erupted in northeast Delhi after supporters of the Hindu nationalist government attacked peaceful sit-ins. At least 53 people were killed, mostly Muslims, in the worst violence in the capital since the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

"She was the strongest women voice in the JCC but, she wasn't there to just be in the spotlight unlike some others", said Kausar Jan, an art student, who along with others had painted protest art on the walls of the university.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, one of Zargar's teachers described her as "outspoken and hard working". "I really hope that the judiciary will consider her academic record and her medical condition and release her soon," she said, requesting to remain anonymous.

A member of the JCC, who also wished to remain anonymous, said the arrests amid the coronavirus pandemic were to ensure that the anti-CAA movement died a slow death, even after the lockdown is lifted.

India police accused of targeting Muslims in violence probe


On February 10, Zargar had fainted after being caught in a scuffle between the police and students, and had to be hospitalised briefly.

"Since then, with her advancing pregnancy a concern, she had gradually restricted her physical movement. And after the outbreak of COVID-19 she had virtually stopped stepping out of the house except for essential work. She was mostly working from home," her husband, who requested his name not be used, told Al Jazeera.

The Tihar prison complex in New Delhi is one of India's most overcrowded prisons with nearly double the number of inmates than it can accommodate.

The COVID-19 outbreak has led to Indian courts ordering the release of those who have not been to trial but Zargar, charged with as many as 18 crimes including rioting, possession of arms, attempt to murder, incitement of violence, sedition, murder, and promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, is not eligible for an early release.

"In fact, we had secured bail in the Jaffrabad case where she had been accused of leading women and children to protest and disrupt traffic," her lawyer, who also withheld his name, said.

But, before she could be released, police arrested her in another case. They refused to disclose what the exact charges were against her, or even the material which formed the basis for her arrest.

It was after the court ordered that charges and material be disclosed that the police invoked UAPA against Zargar.

"Incarcerating her despite her pregnancy on the basis of vague charges is a grave miscarriage of justice," her lawyer said.

Al Jazeera called Delhi Police PRO MS Randhawa, who referred to a statement issued by the police last week. On April 20, the police tweeted that all arrests in relation to the Delhi riots were in compliance with the law and based on scientific evidence, warning that "it will not be deterred by false propaganda and rumours…".

Justice in time of pandemic
Concerns are being raised about limited access to justice during the coronavirus pandemic. Visits to prisons by lawyers and families have been banned.

After several days, the court allowed Zargar's lawyer to speak to her over the phone.

"I am aghast to learn that in the name of quarantine, Safoora [Zargar] is being kept in solitary confinement! Can you imagine the psychological toll this will take on her? She told me that she had made five applications to speak telephonically to her husband but was denied each time by citing COVID-19 protocols," the lawyer said. The lawyer is worried that Zargar is suffering from medical and dietary negligence.

UAPA is often characterised by activists as 'the process which is the punishment'. It allows police up to six months to file charges against the accused - as against three months under regular criminal law. Using it against an ordinary student such as Zargar has raised serious concerns about the Delhi police's impartiality.

"This case shows that diminished access to justice during the lockdown is being used to implicate and imprison student activists who led the peaceful anti-CAA protests," said Vrinda Grover, a Supreme Court advocate.

"Given her pregnant condition she is at high risk and having been sent to jail by a court order, the court is fully responsible that as an undertrial, her health is in no way harmed in judicial custody," Grover said.

Zargar's family marked the first day of Ramadan with sadness and anxiety.

"It would have been a very joyful occasion given that we are expecting our first child. All we did was pray for her safety and quick release. In her condition she needs care, not jail," her husband told Al Jazeera.

Names have been withheld at the request of interviewees who fear security threats

so much for freedom in india..

 

[Verve]

Whats so nonsense about it dear, why do Indians always portray to be righteous all the time.

Please don't engage these Indians ... your threads are making them burn so just let them burn instead of allowing them to vent back when you quote/tag/reply-to them.

 

[Trango Towers]

Chinese news networks and their institutes are known spy groups. Wonder why the government allowed these vermins in the first place. In case of any escalation, India would also invoke the enemy property act.

Another indian rant

 

[PradoTLC]

Please don't engage these Indians ... your threads are making them burn so just let them burn instead of allowing them to vent back when you quote/tag/reply-to them.

They less educated and capable then us..

it is our duty to teach them a lesson.

 

[Chhatrapati]

Another indian rant

Says a Pakistani. Talk about irrelevance.

 

[Verve]

They less educated and capable then us..

it is our duty to teach them a lesson.

They are incorrigible ... they won't learn ANYTHING!

Just look at this thread ... he's flooding it with his useless posts, all because he is being replied to.

 

[Musings]

Please don't engage these Indians ... your threads are making them burn so just let them burn instead of allowing them to vent back when you quote/tag/reply-to them.

Looking at the title i thought the journalists had gained access to a toilet in India. Now that would be headlines.

 

[Verve]

Looking at the title i thought the journalists had gained access to a toilet in India. Now that would be headlines.

Chinese don't need human access, they have all the CCTV installations in India to meet these requirements.

 

[alhindi]

wow... you are really ignorant

The Indian journalist jailed for a year for Facebook posts

Soutik BiswasIndia correspondent

• 22 December 2018

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Image captionKishorechandra Wangkhem works for an Imphal-based cable network
On the afternoon of 27 November, half-a-dozen plainclothes policemen in a couple of vehicles arrived at the two-storey home of a journalist with a cable news network in Manipur, a hilly north-eastern state on the border with Myanmar (Burma).

The policemen told Kishorechandra Wangkhem, 39, that the city's police chief wanted to have a word with him.

"Nothing is going to happen, don't worry," Mr Wangkhem's wife, Ranjita Elangbam, remembers a policeman telling them.

Mr Wangkhem was getting ready to shower and join his wife and two daughters, aged five and one, for lunch. He asked whether he could call his lawyer. They denied his request, asked him to get ready quickly and left with him in five minutes.

• The Indian man in prison for cracking 'offensive' jokes

Ms Elangbam and her brother followed them in a separate car.

At the police station, they waited for nearly five hours while Mr Wangkhem was questioned. As the early evening chill set in, Ms Elangbam went home to pick up some warm clothes. When she returned she was told that her husband had been taken away to a high security prison on the outskirts of the state capital, Imphal.

"I was shocked. After initially refusing to meet us, the chief inspector of the police station told us that my husband had been detained. They told us to get some warm clothes and blankets for him. It was only [after reading] the next day's papers that we found out why he had been held," Ms Elangbam, an occupational therapist, told me.

Image captionThere have been protests against Mr Wangkhem's arrest
Mr Wangkhem's crime: he had posted four videos and comments on his Facebook page on 19 November, criticising the local government led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - he described the Manipur chief minister as a "puppet" of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's federal government.

He had also noted that the government had ignored Manipur's own fight against colonial rulers in a recent celebration. "Don't betray, don't insult the freedom fighters of Manipur," he said in one of his posts.

Police inspector K Bobby wrote in his report that while surfing Facebook, he found that the videos "bring or attempt to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards the government". He also wrote that Mr Wangkhem used "unconstitutional and invective words and with middle finger gesture...".

It was not the first time Mr Wangkhem had been picked up for his Facebook posts.

He was arrested in August and put in prison for four days for two posts in which he mocked the BJP as a 'Budhu Joker Party' (a party of fools). The police said they had found these posts inflammatory.

Mr Wangkhem was again picked up on 20 November, a day after posting four "offending videos" and some comments criticising the government.

After spending six days in police custody, he had been produced before a magistrate with the police seeking further remand. But the judge dismissed the plea and set Mr Wangkhem free because he found the so-called "seditious" posts to be a "mere expression of opinion against the public conduct of a public figure in a street language".

• India activist arrests: Is this a political witch hunt?

Frustrated by the courts, the police issued a fresh detention order the very next day, and arrested Mr Wangkhem. This time, they had used a 38-year-old draconian national security law, which has been frequently used by successive governments to stifle free speech and dissent.

The National Security Act allows for detaining a person considered to be a threat to public order or the security of the state for up to one year without framing formal charges in court or conducting a trial.

It is unclear how Mr Wangkhem's posts violated public order and state security since they led to no public disturbance or trouble.

To be true, Manipur has been a cauldron of insurgency stoked by ethnic rivalries, and demands for independence and affirmative action for local tribespeople, for more than four decades. But, while acquitting Mr Wangkhem earlier, the judge had clearly said his statements "do not seem to be an attempt to disturb peace".

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Image captionManipur has been a cauldron of insurgency for the last four decades
The harsh law has long been used by successive governments to target civil rights activists - in one case for publishing booklets promoting sexual health that apparently scandalised a local community - for protesting against human rights abuses by the army and the government.

In the BJP-ruled northern state of Uttar Pradesh, this law has been used to arrest 160 Muslim men in the past year. Critics of the law say it is discriminatory and leads to human rights violations.

Mr Wangkhem seems to be the latest journalist to face harassment in India, which ranks 138th in the World Press Freedom Index run by Reporters without Borders. Most recently, a Delhi-based defence specialist and columnist was picked up in October. Abhijit Iyer-Mitra was put in prison for 44 days for posting five satirical tweets.

"All this is nothing but an official abuse of power by the government and an attack on free speech," Mr Wangkhem's lawyer, Chongtham Victor, told me.

Ms Elangbam says she has met her husband in prison twice since he was jailed. "He's being very brave and confident. He's trying to console me, and telling me everything will be all right.

"But we are worried. Very, very worried. And my elder daughter keeps asking, Where's my papa disappeared?"

Indian journalists are not abducted in broad daylight .

India: Charged with anti-terror law, pregnant woman sent to jail
Safoora Zargar who was behind anti-CAA protests stands accused of being a key 'conspirator' in the February Delhi riots.

by Valay Singh
26 Apr 2020

Zargar was associated with the Jamia Coordination Committee, which organised weeks of peaceful protests in the capital against a citizenship law passed last December [courtesy of Zargar's family]
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Safoora Zargar, a research scholar from Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) university, spent her first day of Ramadan in the high-security Tihar jail in the Indian capital, New Delhi.

The 27-year old, in the second trimester of her first pregnancy, was arrested on April 10 and subsequently charged under the stringent anti-terror law, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 2019 (UAPA), by the Delhi police.

More:

• Does CAA comply with India's human rights obligations?

• Interactive: Profiles of 53 killed in Delhi violence

• India defends CAA after UN rights chief approaches Supreme Court

Zargar was associated with the Jamia Coordination Committee (JCC), which organised weeks of peaceful protests in the capital against a citizenship law passed last December.

Activists say the Citizen Amendment Act (CAA) discriminates against the country's 180 million Muslim minority and runs against the country's secular constitution.

Police accuse Zargar of being a key "conspirator" in the February violence that erupted in northeast Delhi after supporters of the Hindu nationalist government attacked peaceful sit-ins. At least 53 people were killed, mostly Muslims, in the worst violence in the capital since the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

"She was the strongest women voice in the JCC but, she wasn't there to just be in the spotlight unlike some others", said Kausar Jan, an art student, who along with others had painted protest art on the walls of the university.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, one of Zargar's teachers described her as "outspoken and hard working". "I really hope that the judiciary will consider her academic record and her medical condition and release her soon," she said, requesting to remain anonymous.

A member of the JCC, who also wished to remain anonymous, said the arrests amid the coronavirus pandemic were to ensure that the anti-CAA movement died a slow death, even after the lockdown is lifted.

India police accused of targeting Muslims in violence probe


On February 10, Zargar had fainted after being caught in a scuffle between the police and students, and had to be hospitalised briefly.

"Since then, with her advancing pregnancy a concern, she had gradually restricted her physical movement. And after the outbreak of COVID-19 she had virtually stopped stepping out of the house except for essential work. She was mostly working from home," her husband, who requested his name not be used, told Al Jazeera.

The Tihar prison complex in New Delhi is one of India's most overcrowded prisons with nearly double the number of inmates than it can accommodate.

The COVID-19 outbreak has led to Indian courts ordering the release of those who have not been to trial but Zargar, charged with as many as 18 crimes including rioting, possession of arms, attempt to murder, incitement of violence, sedition, murder, and promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, is not eligible for an early release.

"In fact, we had secured bail in the Jaffrabad case where she had been accused of leading women and children to protest and disrupt traffic," her lawyer, who also withheld his name, said.

But, before she could be released, police arrested her in another case. They refused to disclose what the exact charges were against her, or even the material which formed the basis for her arrest.

It was after the court ordered that charges and material be disclosed that the police invoked UAPA against Zargar.

"Incarcerating her despite her pregnancy on the basis of vague charges is a grave miscarriage of justice," her lawyer said.

Al Jazeera called Delhi Police PRO MS Randhawa, who referred to a statement issued by the police last week. On April 20, the police tweeted that all arrests in relation to the Delhi riots were in compliance with the law and based on scientific evidence, warning that "it will not be deterred by false propaganda and rumours…".

Justice in time of pandemic
Concerns are being raised about limited access to justice during the coronavirus pandemic. Visits to prisons by lawyers and families have been banned.

After several days, the court allowed Zargar's lawyer to speak to her over the phone.

"I am aghast to learn that in the name of quarantine, Safoora [Zargar] is being kept in solitary confinement! Can you imagine the psychological toll this will take on her? She told me that she had made five applications to speak telephonically to her husband but was denied each time by citing COVID-19 protocols," the lawyer said. The lawyer is worried that Zargar is suffering from medical and dietary negligence.

UAPA is often characterised by activists as 'the process which is the punishment'. It allows police up to six months to file charges against the accused - as against three months under regular criminal law. Using it against an ordinary student such as Zargar has raised serious concerns about the Delhi police's impartiality.

"This case shows that diminished access to justice during the lockdown is being used to implicate and imprison student activists who led the peaceful anti-CAA protests," said Vrinda Grover, a Supreme Court advocate.

"Given her pregnant condition she is at high risk and having been sent to jail by a court order, the court is fully responsible that as an undertrial, her health is in no way harmed in judicial custody," Grover said.

Zargar's family marked the first day of Ramadan with sadness and anxiety.

"It would have been a very joyful occasion given that we are expecting our first child. All we did was pray for her safety and quick release. In her condition she needs care, not jail," her husband told Al Jazeera.

Names have been withheld at the request of interviewees who fear security threats

so much for freedom in india..

She was not abducted .

 

[The Eagle]

Chinese news networks and their institutes are known spy groups.

Some names in WION are usually seen drafting & executing or at-least running Indian Foreign Policy on certain occasions.

 

[Trango Towers]

Says a Pakistani. Talk about irrelevance.

Oh put some cow dung on you. The chinese are coming

 

[Chhatrapati]

Some names in WION are usually seen drafting & executing or at-least running Indian Foreign Policy on certain occasions.

That's one up, thought someone will come up with Republic.