INDIA: Communist leader framed

November 17, 1993
Issue 
670
World

Dipankar Bhattacharya, the general-secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), has recently been charged with attempted murder for his role in leading a 2001 march against mass killings by the BJP-led government of Jharkhand state. The move represents a new offensive against the right to protest and an attempt to close down any space for political opposition. To sign a petition to the president of India demanding an immediate withdrawal of these fabricated charges against Bhattacharya and four others arrested with him, visit .

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