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On January 1, 2018, a much larger number of Dalits came to Bhima-Koregaon to celebrate the 200th anniversary.

Sambhaji Bhide and Milind Ekbote "desecrated the samadhi of a Dalit icon near Pune on December 29, sparking the riots that engulfed Mumbai on Tuesday and could put the city in a gridlock...". https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/cover-story/the-two-who-brought-your-city-to-a-halt/articleshow/62344275.cms  The timing of their ransacking of the samadhi located in a village named Wadhu in Pune district was telling. They desecrated the Samadhi on December 29, knowing fully well that thousands of Dalits would gather on January 1 at a nearby village called Bhima-Koregaon to celebrate the anniversary of the defeat of the Peshva army at the hands of British forces comprising mainly Dalit soldiers.

A pune based Businessman, Tushar Damgude’s complaint, which the police filed as a first information report on January 8, alleged the violence that marred a Dalit commemoration at Bhima Koregaon on January 1 was instigated by leftist activists with alleged Maoist links who had spoken at a public meeting called Elgar Parishad the previous day. https://scroll.in/article/892596/im-a-small-person-meet-tushar-damgude-whose-police-complaint-sparked-the-crackdown-on-activists He accuses activists such as Sudhir Dhawale, Varavara Rao and Jignesh Mevani of spreading violent ideas and inciting Dalits to rise against the upper castes.

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Stan Swamy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNVibqUVZDU&feature=youtu.be

Says Stan in the transcript of his interrogation by the NIA earlier this year “I moved to Jharkhand [from Bangalore] and was associated with the JOHAR (Jharkhand Organization for Human Rights) at Chaibasa for a few years. Then I moved to Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand state, and founded Bagaicha, a Jesuit social research and training centre at Namkum, Ranchi. I have been active at Bagaicha for the last 15 years. I have been working in collaboration with people’s movements that were working against unjust displacement, human rights violations, illegal land acquisitions, and policies that were designed or amended to acquire more land, making the indigenous people landless. I have been writing and supporting the struggles for the implementation of the Fifth Schedule of the Indian Constitutions, implementation of the provisions of Panchayats Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act, 1996 and the Samata Judgment by the Supreme Court of India and promoted the concept of ‘Owner of the land will be the owners of Minerals therein’. https://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/NewsDetail/index/4/19500/What-is-that-Tamil-Man-Swami-doing-in-Jharkhand-

Fr Stan Swamy: His life : PUCL press Conference #BK16 https://youtu.be/isaa0CMN4qQ

On 8th October, 2020, 83-year-old Father Stan Swamy became the 16th activists to be arrested in the Bhima-Koregaon case. Marianus Kujur, the director of XISS, Ranchi talked of Stan Swamy’s life, principles and work. He said that “Stan Swamy is not a tribal by birth, but a tribal by choice.” He has written extensively on tribal assertion and against land displacement. Stan has always stood for inclusiveness, diversity and for the poor. He raised a critical question that since 60 years, no one has ever raised such questions on him and how come he became anti-national in the last two years. Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, unable to join the press conference, sent a video message. He acknowledged Stan Swamy’s work with the Adivasis and marginalised in Jharkhand since decades and strongly condemned his arrest. The Bishop of Ranchi asked why would anyone be afraid of a 83 year old activist.

भीमा कोरेगांव सरकारी साजिश के कारण जेल में बंद 12 लोगों के समर्थन के लिए मानवाधिकार संगठन पीयूसीएल ने आज वेबीनार का आयोजन किया, जिसमें देश भर से 496 लोग जूम से और सैकड़ों लोग जुड़े।
वेबिनार के दूसरे सत्र में बोलते हुए बांबे हाई कोर्ट के जाने माने वकील और पीयूसीएल के उपाध्यक्ष मिहिर देसाई ने टर्की के वकील और मानवाधिकार कार्यकर्ता ऐब्रू टेम्टेक का उदाहरण रखा जिनकी कल जेल में भूख हड़ताल के कारण मौत हो गई। टर्की सरकार ने उन पर और 12 अन्य वकीलों पर आतंकवादी संगठन से जुड़ने का आरोप लगाकर जेल में डाल दिया और उन्हें बिना सुने सजा भी सुना दी। ऐसे ही हालात यहां भी हैं, लेकिन हमें अपने लोगों की ऐसी हालत नहीं होने देना है। उन्होंने भीमा कोरेगांव के केस को विस्तार से समझते हुए कहा हमारी सरकार इन पर कानूनी और न्यायिक हिंसा कर रही है, हमें यह लड़ाई जितनी है और मिलिंद एकभोटे और संभा जी भेडे के खिलाफ दर्ज मुकदमे को भी लड़ना है।
यह शानदार वेबिनर सवा चार घंटे तक चला जिसमें देश भर से लोगों ने भागीदारी की। यह webinar भीमा कोरेगांव केस के 2 साल पूरा होने पर 28 अगस्त से 5 सितंबर( गौरी लंकेश की हत्या के दिन) तक पीयूसीएल द्वारा आयोजित प्रतिरोध सप्ताह का हिस्सा था।
हिन्दी रिपोर्ट साभार सीमा आज़ाद

The human rights organization PUCL today organized a webinar in support of 12 people jailed due to the Bhima Koregaon government conspiracy, which was attended by 496 people from across the country and hundreds more.
Speaking in the second session of the webinar, Mihir Desai, a well-known Bombay High Court lawyer and PUCL vice-president, cited the example of Turkish lawyer and human rights activist Abru Temtek, who died in jail yesterday on a hunger strike. The Turkish government jailed him and 12 other lawyers for joining a terrorist organization and sentenced them without trial. The situation is similar here, but we must not allow our people to have such a situation. Explaining the case of Bhima Koregaon in detail, he said that our government is committing legal and judicial violence against them, we have to fight this fight as well as the case registered against Milind Ekbhote and Sambha ji Bhede.
This magnificent webinar lasted for four and a half hours in which people from all over the country participated. This webinar was part of the resistance week organized by PUCL from August 28 to September 5 (the day of Gauri Lankesh's murder) on the completion of 2 years of Bhima Koregaon case.
Hindi Report Sabar Seema Azad

https://youtu.be/FSfEuFLMZxc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL7pBILFjWo  NDTV

 भीमा कोरगांव (Bhima Koregaon) और अर्बन नक्सल (Urban Naxals) मामले में एक नया खुलासा हुआ है. आरोपियों के वकील का दावा है कि आरोपियों में से एक रोना विल्सन के लैपटॉप से मिले साजिश वाले मेल उन्होंने लिखे नहीं थे. बल्कि वो प्लांट किए गए थे. वकील मेहिर देसाई के मुताबिक पुणे कोर्ट के आदेश पर मिले हार्ड डिस्क के क्लोन को अमेरिका की अर्सनाल लैब भेजा गया. अर्सनाल की रिपोर्ट में लिखा हुआ है कि 10 मेल मालवेयर के जरिए प्लांट किए गए थे. बचाव पक्ष के मुताबिक इस रिपोर्ट से साफ है कि सबकुछ एक साजिश के तहत किया गया. इसलिए बॉम्बे हाईकोर्ट में याचिक दाखिल कर मामले को खारिज करने की मांग की गई है.-NDTV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLJfEGYbmSY

The most explosive allegation came from a letter that police said Wilson had written to a Maoist militant in which Wilson discussed the need for guns and ammunition and urged the banned group to assassinate Modi. Arsenal Consulting found that the letter — along with at least nine others — had been planted in a hidden folder on Wilson’s computer by an unidentified attacker who used malware to control and spy on the laptop. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/india-bhima-koregaon-activists-jailed/2021/02/10/8087f172-61e0-11eb-a177-7765f29a9524_story.html   An attacker used malware to infiltrate a laptop belonging to one of the activists, Rona Wilson, before his arrest and deposited at least 10 incriminating letters on the computer, according to a report from Arsenal Consulting, a Massachusetts-based digital forensics firm that examined an electronic copy of the laptop at the request of Wilson’s lawyers.

Bhima Koregaon: Key evidence against jailed activists planted using malware, says forensic report https://scroll.in/latest/986517/bhima-koregaon-key-evidence-against-accused-activists-was-planted-using-malware-says-report