UPDATE: The statement now includes below, 31 endorsements received from Gujarat as of 19 August 2016
This statement is being posted with the hundred-plus signatures received between 1 pm and 8 pm today. Please endorse in the comments section if you wish to do so.
We, the undersigned journalists, activists and academics, condemn in the strongest terms, the brazen attack launched by RSS organizations and individuals on journalist Neha Dixit and Outlook magazine for a thorough investigative report by Dixit based on three months of field work. This report revealed how different Sangh outfits trafficked 31 tribal girls, some as young as three years, from tribal areas of Assam, to Punjab and Gujarat. Orders were issued to these organizations by the Assam State Commission for the Protection of Child Rights, the Child Welfare Committee (Kokrajhar), the State Child Protection Society, and Childline (Delhi and Patiala), to return the children to Assam. These orders were violated with impunity by Sangh-run institutions with the help of the Gujarat and Punjab governments.
On the publication of this report in Outlook, a police complaint was lodged at Latasil Police Station on grounds of inciting communal hatred, and the police registered an FIR against Indranil Roy (Publisher), Krishna Prasad (Editor) of Outlook and Neha Dixit, writer of the story. The complainants are Bijon Mahajan (BJP spokesperson and Gauhati High Court advocate), Mominul Awwal (BJP Minority Cell) and Subhash Chandra Kayal (Assistant Solicitor General).
Instead of launching an investigation into the trafficking, the police have chosen to act on a frivolous and motivated complaint against those who exposed the crime. We demand that the police immediately file charges against those who conduct child trafficking.
In addition, RSS organizations have started a campaign targeting Neha Dixit and Outlook in social media, claiming “defamation”, and we can expect more trumped up police complaints and legal interventions. We are also aware that these Hindutva brigades often take the law into their own hands, unleashing violence with impunity, emboldened by the current regime.
RSS organizations and individuals have long used the law and police machinery to hound artists and intellectuals from MF Hussain to Ashis Nandy, invoking the legal section of “inciting communal hatred” to stifle freedom of expression, using it whenever their own communally violent and hate-inducing tactics and actions are revealed and made public. Journalists are particularly vulnerable, as their investigative reports that reveal RSS organizations’ strategies to attack minorities, Hinduise tribals and created hatred between communities, are themselves targeted as “inciting communal hatred”.We condemn these familiar and reprehensible tactics of the RSS machinery and appeal to our legal justice system to be alert to the misuse of courts and legal machinery by these forces.
We also demand that all criminal action against Neha Dixit and Outlook be dropped, as this is an intolerable attack on freedom of the press to publish thoroughly researched articles in the public interest.
Pamela Philipose
Siddharth Varadarajan
Vidya Subrahmaniam
Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal
Om Thanvi
Manoj Joshi
Jyoti Malhotra
Monobina Gupta
Akshaya Mukul
Ajoy Ashirwad
Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed
Abhimanyu Kumar
Pheroze L Vincent
Venkitesh Ramakrishnan
Ritwik Sharma
Sarthak Ray
Sevanti Ninan
Geeta Seshu
Swati Bhattacharjee
Mannika Chopra
Shuma Raha
Shruti Ganpatye
Raksha Kumar
Anam Mittra
Vinaya Deshpande
Indira Jaising
Shabnam Hashmi
Ilina Sen
Harsh Mander
Lalita Ramdas
Kavita Krishnan
Vrinda Grover
Kavita Srivastava
Deepti Sharma
Aditya Shrivastava
Mihira Sood
Pyoli Swatija
Achin Vanaik
Susie Tharu
Jayati Ghosh
J Devika
Apoorvanand
Gautam Bhan
Sunalini Kumar
Jyotirmaya Sharma
Janaki Nair
Rohini Hensman
Radhika Singha
Ritu Dewan
Bishnupriya Paul
V Sujatha
Kumkum Roy
Supriya Varma
Karthik Bittu
Anita Ghai
Sujata Patel
Satish Deshpande
Nivedita Menon
Baidik Bhattacharya
Aditya Nigam
Virginia Saldanha
Shilpa Phadke
Mary John
Urvashi Butalia
Ritu Menon
Aniket Alam
Shipra Nigam
Kalyani Menon-Sen
Ankita Anand
Amrita Nandy
Anuradha Banerji
Vineeta Bal
Japleen Pasricha
Meena Saraswati Seshu
Arundhati Duru
Sandhya Srinivasan
Monisha Behal
Abha Bhaiya
Aruna Burte
Jeevika
Jhuma Sen
Papori Bora
Dipa Sinha
G Arunima
Lata Singh
Ranjani Mazumdar
Rachana Johri
Kamayani Bali Mahabal
Rimple Mehta
Pramada Menon
Geetha Nambisan
Aarthi Pai
Virginia Saldanha
Vidya Reddy
Pushpa
Vasudha Mohanka
Urvashi Sarkar
Sarojini NB
Soma KP
Kavitha Muralidharan
Veena Poonacha
Deepa Venkatachalam
Ranjana Padhi
Shambhavi Prakash
Guneet Ahuja
Meena Menon
Moushumi Basu
T K Rajalakshmi
Endorsements received from Gujarat, 19 August
Azima Girach, Advocate, Ahmedabad
Persis Ginwalla, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Fahad Mohammad Khan, Advocate, Ahmedabad
Nita Mahadev, Social Activist, Gujarat Lok Samiti, Ahmedabad
Dr.Virendra vidrohi, Social Activist
Prasad Chacko, Social Worker, Ahmedabad
Sandesh Gonsalves, Prashant, Ahmedabad
Willi, Indian Social Action Forum (INSAF)
Xavier Manjooran,Sj, SAHYOG, SONGADH
Fr Cedric Prakash , Human Rights Activist
Neeta Hardikar, Social Activist, Gujarat
Usman Gani Sherisiya, Machimar Adhikar Sanghrsh Sangthan, Gujarat
Ashok Shrimali, Mines Minerals and People
Anand Mazgaonkar, Social Activist
Abdulhafiz lakhani. Journalist, Ahmedabad
Rohit shukla swayam, Social Scientist
Stalin K Padma, Film Maker
Jimmy dabhi, Social Activist
Rohit Prajapati, Activist, Gujarat.
D.N. Rath, Ahmedabad
Damini Shah, Writer, Ahmedabad
Waqar Qazi , Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Mahesh kumar Pandya, Environmentalist, Ahmedabad
Shakil Shaikh, Ahmedabad
Shehnaz, HDRC
Dinesh, Marag
Krishnakant, Vododara
Rajiv Shah, Journalist, Ahmedabad
Ashim Roy, Vice President, New Trade Union Initiative
Amrut Vaghela, Cultural Activist, Ahmedabad
Mujahid Nafees, Education Activist, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Endorsed.
I endorse the statement.
– Naveen Gaur (University of Delhi).
Endorsed.
Endorsed.
Keval Arora
(Delhi University)
INDIAN CIVIL SOCIETY is WAKING up now ( When it appears ALMOST to be TOO LATE in the DAY), to the DANGERS of FLIRTING WITH an AUTOCRATIC, MEGALOMANIACAL& PSYCHOPATHIC MASS MURDERER, that MANY members of this INDIAN SOCIETY DID in 2014 ( in all 31 PERCENT of THEM) knowing FULLY WELL that neither a TIGER ever CHANGES its STRIPE nor a LEOPARD its SPOTS and similarly,the fact remains that the FASCISTS will ALWAYS remain FASCISTS even if they WEAR a MASQUERADE of DEVELOPMENT to HOODWINK gullible MASSES during ELECTION CAMPAIGNS!
It has almost become a DO-or DIE Battle now for our “TRULY DEMOCRATIC ,SECULAR and JUST MEMBERS of our SOCIETY to “PROTECT not just OUR BASIC CONSTITUTIONAL VALUES of EQUITY,JUSTICE & SECULARISM but to FIGHT OPENLY against the INSIDIOUS and BLATANT ATTEMPT to SUBVERT the CONSTITUTION and RULE of LAW, through RELIGIOUS MOBILIZATION by a RIGHT WING HYDRA-HEADED PARIVAR USING its TENTACLES LIKE EMBRACE of GULLIBLE MASSES and through its MAFIA like SPREAD and NETWORKS of GROUPS of (Mostly)UNEDUCATED & UNEMPLOYED GOONS and LUMPENS through INSIDIOUS INDOCTRINATION using all the “JOSEPH GOEBBELS” methods of “FALSE PROPAGANDA!
The Kerala High Court intervened in a similar situation when thousands of young children were brought to Kerala by Muslim league’s Yatheem Khana. Why the OUTLOOK magazine avoided this story is baffling It was more than 10000 children trafficked by Muslin league in Kerala and that party was ruling Kerala with Congress at that time. So the Kerala Govt stonewalled any enquiry into the allegation. The Hon. Kerala High Court even ordered a CBI Probe. http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/hc-orders-cbi-to-probe-into-children-trafficking-in-kerala/
Please add my name to those opposing this dictatorship/fascism.
Sandip Shetty
Dear Mr Nateshan,
Please stick to his issue and this statement. Please do not divert attention like criminals usually do.
I would like to add my name in support of this statement
Simar Puneet
I endorse this statement.
Fully support this. We need to come together and resist it. Kislay
Please add my name : Neyaz Farooquee
I endorse the statement
I endorse this statement – Surabhi Sharma
I endorse the statement.
Waliullah Laskar
Lawyer, Guwahati
please add my name
Rina Ramdev
Pls add my name in the list :
-Aruni Kashyap
Writer and translator
Endorsed
N. Jayaram
(Bangalore. I endorse)
Endorse fully in word, in spirit, for humanity to save and/or salvage democracy
Endorsed.
(The New School)
I endorse this statement- Tariq Thachil (Vanderbilt University).
I endorse the statement- Aruna Chandrasekhar.
Thoroughly endorse the statement.
Endorsed
Can you please put my endorsement
here: Amit R. Baishya, University of Oklahoma
Endorsing.
– Biswajit K Bora
I endorse the above statement
Harsh Kapoor / sacw.net
Neha Dixit’s excellent article meets all the standards that we expect of scholarly work in its most productive sense. It must be bizarre times for democracy in this country that those who need to reconcile their humanity with the difficult questions raised in the article think that an FIR is the best way to respond to it. I fully endorse this statement.
I endorse the statement above.
endorsed
Endorsed.
I endorse the statement.
Svati Joshi
In solidarity.
Endorsed.
we from Cinema of Resistance and Jan Sanskriti Manch endorse this statement and condemn RSS.
In solidarity with Neha Dixit.
I endorse this statement.
Endorsed
please add my name too.
I endorse the statement.
Endorsed
Endorsed.
In solidarity. I endorse the statement.
I endorse the statement as well. thank you.
I endorse the statement.
Endorsed, please add my name
Endorsed
Endorsed
In solidarity
S.R.Praveen
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/hc-orders-cbi-to-probe-into-children-trafficking-in-kerala/
I endorse this, please add my name.
I wholeheartedly endorse this statement.
I agree with this statement. This was an investigative report which reveals the underbelly of the heinous crime n trying to throttle such actions of unmasking the culprits by intimidation is highly condemnable n unjust.
I endorse this statement.
Endorsed.
Samhita Arni
I endorse this statement.
Endorsed.
Wholeheartedly Endorsed.
Endorsed
मैं इस मुद्दे पर आपकी मांग और आपके वक्तव्य का समर्थन करता हूँ।
Wholeheartedly endorse, in full solidarity with Neha.
– Shobhna I.
Full solidarity.
Endorsed
Endorse fully
I endorse the statement.
Endorsed
Endorsed
Endorsed!
Endorsed.
RSS has become a power outside of law. It controls most power structures today. I endorse this course of action.
Endorsed
Endorse it, you can’t shoot the messenger.
Endorsed.
Sania Hashmi, Film-maker
Endorsed.
Firmly endorse and express solidarity with Neha Dixit and the others.
I endorse the statement.
Endorsed
I endorse this statement.
Endorsed.
~ Paromita Sen ~
Endorsed. Please add my name.
Endorse.
In solidarity! Endorse this public statement
M Reyaz (Journalist and Assistant Professor, Aliah University, Kolkata)
Action should taken against Mohan Bhagwat
I support this letter and condemn the attack on Outlook and Neha Dixit.
Endorsed.
such muzzling of courageous journos have been routine –no words enuf for condemnation –i join the protest
I endorse the statement.
Aakash Chandran, Jamia Millia Islamia
I endorse.
I endorse the statement.
Dhirendra K Jha
Please add my signature to this petition
I endorse this cent percent.
Completely support the statement
I also demand that all criminal action against Neha Dixit and Outlook be dropped, as this is an intolerable attack on freedom of the press to publish thoroughly researched articles in the public interest.
In complete agreement with the statement.
Endorsed.
Endorsed.
Radhika Menon, University of Delhi
Endorsed
I Cyril Frank endorse the statement.
Endorsing
Endorsed.
Endorsed
In solidarity.
I endorse this statement. Kindly add my name in the list. Neha Dixit’s journalistic practice speaks for people. It should not be curbed by any powerful entity out there.
I endorse the statement.
Pt. Kuldeep Vyas
Lawyer, Jaipur
Fully endorse this, please add my name….
In solidarity.
I endorse this statement.
Endorsing the statement
I endorse.
RSS showing its true colours.
Endorsed.
Neha is a fearless journalist deeply committed to social justice. We need more like her. I fully support this statement.Vaiju Naravane.
I support this statement.
I endorse the statement. Please add my name,
Saba Dewan
I endorse wholeheartedly.
I endorse this statement
I endorse the statement. This is absolutely unacceptable and a thorough violation of fundamental rights of the citizens within the constitutional framework of India. Maidul Islam
I am proud to endorse this statement!
endorsed
Saima Iqbal
Mohammed Asif
Endorsed. More power to you, Neha.
Shariq Iqbal
I endorse this statement.
Endorsed.
– Abir Dasgupta
Endorsed. Solidarity with the movement to preserve a free press. Down with the trafficking practices of the Sangh.
I endorsed the statement more investigations should be made against RSS in order to expose its heinous crimes This is an org of traitors add my name in the list
lawyer,journalist,HRW activist – Kota – Rajasthan
Endorsed.
Rajashree Raju
Endorsed
I endorse (hope it helps)
I firmly endorse this statement.
Endorsed
I endorse the statement : We also demand that all criminal action against Neha Dixit and Outlook be dropped, as this is an intolerable attack on freedom of the press to publish thoroughly researched articles in the public interest.
Stop witch hunting. In solidarity with Neha Dixit.
Endorse the statement wholeheartedly. Using criminal laws to persecute journalists betrays a deeply authoritarian and hate-filled mindset. Such governments must be resisted.
I endorse the statement
Endorsed.
I demand that all criminal action against Neha Dixit and Outlook be dropped, as this is an intolerable attack on freedom of the press to publish thoroughly researched articles in the public interest.
I endorse this statement.
Sushmita Dev, the Congress Leader from Assam, brought this up in the parliament just last week. The govt must launch a probe into the matter right away. Violence against writers and journalists must be condemned. Freedom of Speech and Expression is being threatened everyday.
It’s becoming more and more difficult to live somewhere in between unrealistic optimism and cynical pessimism, at Hope.
Let’s unite and fight to protect the women, children and minority groups in the country.
Alina Tiphagne
Photojournalist, Broadcast News Editor
Endorsed
I endorse.
I Strongly Endorse This Statement. This is just plain and wrong for RSS to target ppl who expose the truth. I hope courts take notice and throw cases in trash and file case against RSS for child trafficking.
I endorse.
Endorsed by Indira Chandrasekhar
I hope, some day we would protect our mothers and sisters and not an animal, whom our beliefs had made an issue of.
I endorse.
I endorse the statement
That was a chilling, meticulously researched report.
Endorsed.
Endorsed. In solidarity.
Endorsed.
Endorsed
Dhwani Vij
I endorsed this statement.
Endorsed
I endorse this statement
In support. Purnima Ramanujan
i endorse the statement
I endorse this statement; kindly add my name.
I endorse this. Please add my name too.
Thank you
Endorsed.
Radha Khan
Endorsed. Kasturi
I strongly condemn this obscene attack on the freedom of the press. It’s shameful what they are doing, unable to refute such a well researched article. More power to brave and righteous journalists like Neha Dixit!
Endorsed – resist attack by Hindutva thugs of RSS against journalists daring to expose their heinous crimes and conspiracies.
I endorse the statement.
I endorse this statement. Thank you.
I am with freedom to press. Endorse this.
I endorse this statement.
It’s after 8. But still. Endorsing.
I endorse.
I endorse this statement.
Latha Jishnu
Endorsed
Endorsed.
In solidarity and support.
Arnab Dey
Endorsed
Curbing freedom of press will only take us back to the stone age…
I endorse this statement.
Endorsed
I endorse this statement. I condemn the arbitrary police and legal section.
I endorse the statement and strongly condemn the attacks made on Neha.
Endorsed.
Arundhathi
PhD, University of Hyderabad
I endorse the statement!
I endorse this statement.
Absolute endorsement. And infinite, wholehearted thanks to Neha Dixit, Krishna Prasad, and Indranil Roy.
Endorsed
I would like to endorse this statement.
I endorse this statement
Modi’s act always Aggressively Vengeful
I endorse the statement.
Uma Tanuku
I endorse this. Even the child rights commission of Assam has stood by the claim of abuse but the police have not taken action the perpetrators of the crime. Instead they are shooting the messenger of bad news.
Walter Fernandes
This Government is against freedom of speech, specially if spken words are highlighting their fascist way of ruling and living. I support Neha dixit and outlook for their wondrful investigative story but i am hating that they we rewarded for their good deeds by filing FIR against them. I endorese the statement above and i stand for the freedom of Media and i stabd for freedom of speech.
Endorsed.
Endorsed
Wholeheartedly endorse this statement. Insist that charges be dropped against Neha and an apology issued by the Central Government.
Full support Neha. These chaddi clad goons need to be silenced!
I endorsed this statement.
Condemn the attack.
In solidarity.
In solidarity.
Amita Dhanda, Professor of Law, NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad.
Endorsed.
Endorsed!
As IHRO Chairman of journalists fraternity of Chinab Valley,, and Bhaderwah journalist association president, I strongly condemned the act of Police and RSS for harassing the journalist.
Please add the following names of Chinab Valley journalists,,,,,,,,
MANSOOR QADIR, HAQ NAWAZ NEHRU MAJID MALIK, MOHAMMED TASKEEN WANI, ABID MALIK, GAZI RIYAZ TAK, FIRDOUS KHANDAY, ISHTAQ MALIK, KHALID RASOOL, SHAFQAT SHAHEN SHAIKH, SOHAB RANGRAZ.
Drop all criminal charges against Neha and Outlook – counter facts with facts.
I endorse the statement.
Prerna Gautam
Research Scholar,TISS
Prem Verma, Jharkhand Nagrik Prayas
Endorse
Endorsed
Neha needs to be commended for exposing the hitherto dark side of the RSS, unknown to most, and one that’s shadowy and opaque in nature.
The fact that the RSS’ activities have the tacit sanction of the bigwigs in the BJP and the NDA must be brought out in greater detail, and must be made known to the world at large.
Endorsed
I endorse the statement. This nonsense has got to stop!
I endorse the statement.
MK Rao
Editor Working Journalist Samachara Sravanti
Endorse
Akhila Singh
I endorse.
The following endorsements have come in:
Shukla Sawant
Susan Visvanathan
Nandini Rao
Uma Chandru
Juhi
Sumi Krishna
Samantha Agarwal
Endorsed.
I endorse the statement
Some more:
Albertina Almeida
Chayanika Shah
Anuradha Kapoor
Shewli
Madhu Bhushan
Rina Mukherji
Neeta (npdh)
A. Mani
Manisha Kande
Ujwala Kadrekar
Uma Chakravarti
Nandita Shah
Purwa Bharadwaj
Shoba Ghosh
Niti Saxena
Endorsed
I endorse the statement
I endorse the statement.
Endorsed
I endorse the plea to the courts, police and governments to uphold decent democratic values in India and defeat the communal elements.
Karanjeet Kaur
Endorse the statement. Shashank Samant
Endorsed with all the emphasis at my command
Nisaar main teri galiyon peh ai watan, keh jahan
Chali hai rasm keh koi na sar utha keh chale..
Recently the Outlook magazine ran a story exposing child trafficking of adivasi girls by RSS affiliates like Sewa Bharati and Rashtra Sevika Samiti in Assam. The story was based on solid investigation and documentary evidence tracing the trafficking trail from Assam to Gujarat and Punjab. Today we have received shocking information that an FIR has been lodged against the reporter, the editor and the publisher of the Outlook magazine. This is a clear case of witch hunt and unjust persecution when the RSS is unable to counter the story with credible facts. The DSF strongly condemns the attack on free speech and the media and views this as an attempt to coerce and silence those who are daring to speak truth to power. We appeal to all progressive and democratic sections to provide full solidarity and support to those who are being victimised and resist such onslaughts on democratic spaces.
Sd/- Ishan Anand, Secretary, DSF
Sonam Goyal, President, DSF
Endorsed.
I fully endorse the statement and let’s all be united in this fight against fascism where’s called fringe elements are fully supported by state machinery, with the support of ruling party.
Endorse this statement
i endorse the statement….vs krishna, human rights forum.
I endorse the statement
Endorsing the statement
Endorsed
Nirmal John
In solidarity. With reference to the longer post of Shahabudeen Nadeem, a defence by us (make no mistake, we are all under attack in this dispensation, all who think sanely), a defence by means of a frontal attack would succeed only with allies and striking at the right moment.
I fully endorse the statement.
Endorsed
– Mayalakshmi Rao
Endorse the statement. Anjali Monteiro
I endorse.
Mahesh Rao
Endorsed. Fight against criminal elements. Stiop human trafficking and targeting whistle-blowers.
Nirjhar Mukherjee
Endorsed.
I fully endorse the statement. Journalists should unite against attacks. Prime Minister should act like he speaks and leash RSS
Endorsed.
Endorsed
Endorse the statement.
Endorse
Endorsed.
Absolutely agree . RSS should not play with the soul of India .
Endorse the statement.
Endorse
In solidarity!
I endorse the statement. Salutes to Neha and the team.
Endorsed.
Endorsed. In solidarity,
Ajitha G.S.
Endorse readily. The parivaar are the greatest threat to whatever India has been known to be
In solidarity
Endorsed
Endorse
I endorse the statement, and in complete solidarity with Neha Dixit
Endorsed
Kalyani Monteiro Jayasankar
endorsed
I endorse the statement.
I endorse this statement.
in solidarity,
bhuvi gupta,
new delhi
Endorsed.
Completely endorsed
i endorse. Vani Subramanian
This is what they do to people who raise questions, are we still in a democracy?
Endorse fully. Shameful that the only action Indian law enforcement could think of taking in a serious child trafficking case was action against the journalists and media reporting the story. PKR
I endorse this statement.
Endorsed
Endorsed
Endorse the statement. Ketaki Ghoge
In solidarity
endorse the statement
Endorsed
Endorsed. Please add my signature to the list. Anna M.M. Vetticad
(The message is clear: we won’t stop the trafficking, we will stop the journalists who told you it’s happening.)
endorsed
I endorse this. Amish Mulmi.
I endorse this statement
Firmly endorse this statement and express solidarity with Outlook.
Endorsed!
I endorse the statement. Action should be taken against RSS as per report published in the Outlook
Endorsed wholeheartedly.
I endorse the statement. Please add my name.
Pallavi Gupta
I endorse the statement
endorse
Endorse
Fully endorse this.
Such a shame, I endorse.
Endorsed. It was a stunning piece of journalism after a very long time! #StandWithNehaDixit
I endorse the petition. RSS has the audacity of levying false charges when it is itself implicated in several cases of inciting communal hatred.
I endorse this statement. Rupali Samuel, Advocate.
In solidarity, I endorse this.
Endorsed …
Please do count in my support on this issue.
Doulos
I endorse the statement
I endorse
Please add my name to the list.
Aban Raza
Thank you
Wholeheartedly endorse the statement and stand in solidarity with Neha. The Govt must investigate the crime instead of shooting the messenger. At least some journalists and media outlets are still doing their job honestly and sincerely. We must defend them.
Rakhi Sehgal
Endorsed
I endorse.
I endorse this statement. – Smita Mitra, Himal Southasian
I endorsed this statement
I endorse the statement.
Vinita Sahasranaman
In solidarity!
Endorsed!
Hartman de Souza.
I stand in solidarity with Neha Dixit and her courageous journalism. Each one of us should!
I endorse this statement.
Endorsed.
Sherna Dastur
A country growing in the lines of a fascist one. It’s showing all its arrogance against students, writers, dalits, workers, minorities, artists and journalists. What’s left to be attacked? If 4 th estate is getting targeted at the time of paid journalism sponsored by the state we will be under a complete fascist regime in the near future.
In solidarity
I strongly stand by the statement.
I strongly condemn the case being lodged against Neha Dixit and Outlook Express.
I add my name to it…
I endorsed
I endorse the statement
Endorsed
I strongly endorse this petition and demand the authorities not to flout the rules and act to protect hooligans of its own ilk.
Endorsed.
I endorse my statement against RSS attack on journalist Neha Dixit and Outlook Express.
Endorse…such dangerous trends need to be countered
V r with outlook magazine and Neha Dixit,
RSS SHOULD Kindly stop the witch hunt,
Fight fair ,
I endorse this statement.
I endorse the statment
Endorsed
I endorse the statement.
Endorsed
Please add my name. I stand in solidarity with Neha Dixit
Endorsed. In solidarity.
The Tribals are the soft target to spread hatred and to make sure that their real tradition of community living May be broken and that fight with each other. Hope the people understand that they are not going to gain anything except loosing peace and livelihood.
I endorse the statement and condemn such attempts to intimidate the media.
Endorsed. Govt has forgotten what investigation means and when someone painstakingly does it they (govt/police/rss) file false cases
Endorsed
Endorsed.
Lalit Shukla
Endorsed.
i endorse the statemant.
Sheena Jain
I appeal to BAN this outfit 4 a free an independent country with freedom of expression
Support Neha Dixit, Outlook and the statement wholly. Gouri Chatterjee
Endorsed. Media too should act against nefarious elements and expose them. Media houses are divided on the ideological points of political parties.
Endorsed. Shampa Sengupta
More endorsements:
Bachi Karkaria
Anita Katyal
Sheetal Sharma
Vahida Nainar
Mujahid Nafees
Priya John
Laxmi Murthy
Chhaya Datar
Sejal Dave
Gabriele Dietrich
Janaki Srinivasan
Dr Amar Jesani
Pallavi Gupta
Rachna Dhingra and Satinath Sarangi
Renu Khanna, SAHAJ
Jashodhara DasGupta
Nimisha Desai
Sagari R Ramdas
Charanya R
Krupa R
I endorse, kindly add my name
Pradeep Esteves
I endorse this statement.
AIDWA Press release
The All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) strongly condemns the manner in which the police have lodged false criminal cases against the Publisher and Editor of Outlook magazine, and the author of one of its recent stories, Neha Dixit, at the behest of certain members connected with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. This is one more example of how the police and law enforcement machinery is being used to curb the freedom of expression and hound media persons speaking up against communal strategies of the Sangh Parivar. AIDWA demands that these cases be withdrawn immediately, and police protection provided to all of them avoid any possible physical attacks from goons owing allegiance to Hindutva forces.
In a statement issued on 2nd of August 2016, the AIDWA has conveyed its strong protest about the trafficking of 31 young tribal girls from Assam in order to indoctrinate them in RSS camps, as reported in Outlook. We reiterate our demand that since this amounts to a violation of national and international child trafficking laws, cases should be filed against the traffickers, alleged to be RSS workers from Punjab and Gujarat.
Endorsed.
– Akshay Gouri
I endorse this statement.
Pranshu Rathee
Strongly endorse this statement.
Endorsed by:
Mujahid Nafees
Sophy Joseph
Komal Ganotra
Radha Holla
Sandipan Paul
Sudeshna Sengupta
Padmini
Chirashree Ghosh
Elizabeth Khumallambam
Strongly endorse this statement
I endorse the statement
Fully in agreement. Nationwide protest is the need of the hour. Endorsed.
I endorse the statement wholeheartedly and strongly denounce RSS as one fascist force.
I endorse the statement above. Please add my name.
Nikhil Kumar
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K. Saradamoni
I endorse. Deepasri Baul.
I endorse. Jashodhara Dasgupta, New Delhi
I endorse.
Deepasri Baul.
endorsed. dunu roy
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Asha G
I endorse this statement. Neha Dixit – we need more brave and professional journalists like you. Kudos to the Outlook Team for having the courage to investigate and report on a theme like child trafficking within the country – for speaking of truths that many of us in this country don’t like or want to hear.
I endorse this statement.
I thoroughly endorse this statement.
I endorse this statement.
Endorsed.
Endorsed, Rahul Roy | Film maker
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In support of this statement.
Sanjana Gaind
I endorse the statement
I endorse the statement
I endorse the statement.
I stand with Neha Dixit and condemn the attempt to bully the media
I strongly condemn the attacks made on Neha. There should be proper investigation before targeting her.
If this is not a state of emergency then what is? If this is not fascism, then what is? I strongly condemn the attack and fully endorse this statement.
I endorse the statement
Endorsed.
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Nita Mahadev
Gujarat Loksamiti
Prasad Chacko
Manisha Kande
Preetha Nair
Anannya Bhattacharjee
Persis Ginwalla
Runu Chakraborty
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Jahnvi Andharia
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Trafficking anyone, let alone helpless Tribal children is abhorrent. Why punish the brave woman who has raised concerns.? Please show your goodwill and release her.
Endorsed.
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In solidarity.
I endorse this statement. Thanks
Endorsing the statement.
Tanmoy Sharma
Researcher, writer.
I endorse
I endorse this statement.
Strongly condemn RSS / VHP Hindu brigade and their unlawful acts…
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Endorsed writer and publication. Trafficking is wrong.
#StandAgainstHinduFascism
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I endorse the statement. In Solidarity with Neha Dixit and Outlook.
I endorse
endorsed. there is a high court order against this in Kerala
I endorse this statement. Nandini Nair
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Imran
Ena Panda
I endorse the statement and condemn the RSS. Where will they stop?
I endorse this statement and stand with Neha Dixit.
I endorse this statement – vidyun
I endorse this statement.
I endorse this statement and stand by journalist Neha Dixit. Amrita Ibrahim
I endorse this statement. We need to stand up and be counted.. as supporters of freedom, against all forms of repression
I strongly condemn this misdeed of RSS ,the gang of criminals.
Endorsed
Wholeheartedly endorsed!
I endorse the statement.
Asad Zaidi
endorsed
Aditi Nigam
I endorse this statement.
In Solidarity
Ritika Shrimali (York University)
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I strongly condemn the attack by RSS goons on journalist Neha Dixit and endorse the statement.
In solidarity. Thanks..
Pl add me, Arun Khote, PMARC
I endorse
If this the Rss idea of India’s laws and of the rule of law in India then they seem to be “nationalists” of some some extra terrestrial fictional nation just as in the fiction so well shown in BR Ambedkar’s “Riddles in Hinduism”.
I strongly endorse and support the statement.
Col Anil Kumar Chawla(Retd)
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I endorse. Vasundhara
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I endorse. Vasundhara
I endorse the statement!!
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Endorsed -Purba Rudra
I endorse this statement.
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I endorse this petition, signing it
I endorse this statement
Please add my name in support of this effort
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Endorsed by
Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression
Saheli, Delhi
Ramlath Kavil
Geetanjali Gangoli
Supriya Madangarli
Amrita Shodhan
I endorse the statement.
I support this effort to bring a sense of sane society.
Amala Popuri
I endorse and support Ms Dixit
These fringe elements are unfortunately getting tacit approval from the Govt and need condemnation
K. Uma, Bangalore. Endorsed.
Endorsed.
I endorse the statement — Sangeeta Ghosh
I endorse.
I support Freedom of Expression. An independent press is a sign of healthy society. I endorse the statement
The sanghis are now hellbent to throttle the democratic voices. Though, a difficult struggle ahead but we have to fight it unitedly.
I endorse this statement.
– Abhivyakti.
Endorsed: Parimal Maya Sudhakar
Endorsed. Abhijit Das
Endorsements received from
Sumit Sarkar
Tanika Sarkar
We endorse. Sudhir Vombatkere & Asha Vombatkere
we endorse it.
A.K. Maleri, Association for Democratic Rights Pb
Endorsed.
Endorsed. Geetanjali Gangoli
Endorsed the statement.
In full support within the revolutionary fight on fascists from Telangana.
endorsed Geeta Ramaseshan, Advocate, Chennai
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ALI AKBAR ALI
Nazariya endorses the statement.
Completely endorse this
I strongly condemn this attack. Long live freedom
I endorse the above statement.
Viji Ganesh
i endorse the above statement.
Endorsed
Aditya Rametra
Please add my name. I endorse. – Ajay Noronha
Statement against RSS attack on journalist Neha Dixit and press freedom
I endorse.
I endorse this statement in its entirety. – samrat chakrabarti
I endorse
Fully endorse the statement.
I endorse the above statement
Endorse the views. Let no voices vibe stifled by the iron hand of the govt.
Whoever dare to expose the real face of sangh parivar should be targeted as in the case of Khalburgy and many more. A wider union of journalists, activists and all other secular forces is essential to assure freedom for all.
The current activities of parivar outfits are highly objectionable. I express my solidarity with Ms.Neha Dixit and outlook team.
Please add my name. I endorse the Statement against RSS attack on journalist Neha Dixit and press freedom. – Nitin Basrur. Pune.
Endorsed
– Kunal Vohra
I endorse this statement. This kind of hounding of straight forward journalists is ridiculous.
Endorsed.
I endorse the statement. besides we need to get the international press in. Only that shames this fascist government.
Endorsed
Chayanika Shah, Bombay
I endorse
I totally endorse this statement.
Please add my name. Fully support the statement. In solidarity with Neha Dixit (& Indranil Roy, Krishna Prasad).
Endorsements from
Padma Velaskar
Tanushree Gangopadhyay
Niveditha Menon, Bangalore
and the following from Medico Friends Circle:
Savitri Ray
Dr. Abhay Shukla, Pune
Dr Shakeel
Indranil Mukhopadhyay
Isfaqur Rahman
Amitava Guha
Samir Dass, Ranchi
Dr.B.Ekbal
Thelma Narayan
Dhruv Mankad
Jagdish Patel
Hats off to Neha for her commendable job in exposing the Indian Stolen generation episode by the Sanghis.Its nothing surprise to see the action by the Sanghis for the expose.Morover they are in power in Assam n will do everything to fix Neha.We have to stand by this brave woman.I am signing now.
Endorsed by Malika Virdi
I endorse.
I endorse the statement
Endorsed. Shraddha Chickerur, Hyderabad
Endorsed.
Amrita Tripathi
Endorsement from Jasmeen Patheja
Endorsements from Medico Friends Circle:
Rajeev B R, SOCHARA, Bangalore
Narendra Gupta
CS Verma
Endorsements from the Food Sovereignty Alliance
Sagari R Ramdas
Charanya R
Krupa R
Fully solidarity with Neha Dixit
Endorsements from
Shalini Joshi
Disha Mullick
Endorsement from:
Forum Against Oppression of Women, Bombay
At any cost, the freedom of speech should be safeguarded.
No agency,o r organizations , should have the power to curb it.
Endorse the statement.
I endorse the statement.
The worst thing is that the law enforcing authority play into the hands of these fringe elements eho take law unto themselves.
I endorse. Prasad Chacko, Social Worker, Ahmedabad
Endorsed.
Saswati Sengupta
I endorse the statement
I too endorse this statement.
I endorse this staement
I endorse this statement.
i endorse the statement.
I endorse.
Tultul Biswas
i do endorse this statement.
I endorse
Padma Deosthali
Endorsed.
please add my name.
Ania Loomba
This shows Neha’s story has hit home. I strongly condemn this action by RSS and endorse the above statement
Fully support and endorse this statement.
Endorsing
Thanks for expressing what many Indians were thinking.
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Brij Tankha
I stand with this group for Neha Dixit and other journalists fighting the Hindutva attack.
I endorse
I endorse
Sagari R Ramdas
I endorse this statement.
Aditi Chandra, UC Merced
For how long this cruel organization is involved in such a heinous crime? Need to dig out more in the past.
I too endorse the above statement