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We’re Leftist, not anti-India: Wanted JNU girl’s motherAbsconding’ JNU girl is pride of Bihar’s dalit village Sayantanee Choudhury | TNN | Feb 20, 2016, 11.04 PM IST
Ara: "Chintu’s parents are members of CPI-ML (Liberation) and Chintu is a functionary of its student wing, All India Students Association (AISA). We are Leftists to the core of our hearts, but not anti-nationals — not even in the wildest of our dreams," 40-year-old Sarojini Devi says, sounding far more (…)

Soni Sori, local adivasi leader and the Aam Aadmi Party coordinator for Bastar Division, was attacked by three goons on her way home on the 20th of February in Geedam. The attack on Soni Sori is part of a larger campaign of State violence in Bastar; Under the guise of anti-Naxal operations, the security forces are indulging in rape and plunder. Teams of women activists have documented three cases of mass sexual violence in the past three months, where security forces have entered villages in Sukma ad Bijapur - stripping women, indulging in gangrape, looting their food supplies, and destroying their homes and granaries.

Reports of continuing assault on human rights defenders and on rights of people of Chhattisgarh.

the world should be worried by the concerted attacks on one of the leading newspaper editors in South Asia, Mahfuz Anam of Bangladesh’s Daily Star.

Human Rights Defenders Alert - India has issued urgent appeal to the National Human Rights Commission, and its Focal point of Human Rights Defenders, Secretary General of NHRC, UN Special Rapporteur on situation of Human Rights Defenders, Chhattisgarh State Human Rights Commission, Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, on our grave concern regarding two lawyers and women Human rights defenders Ms. Shalini Gera and Ms. Isha Khandelwal who are constantly facing threats to their lives by the local police supported group Samajik Ekta Manch in Jagdalpur city of Bastar in Chhattisgarh.