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Syed Ali Mujtaba
The Campaign against State Repression (CASR), a human rights body has condemned the arrests of 4 people in Bareilly for merely offering ‘namaz’ at a private place and also the arrest of 10 Muslims in the Sambhal violence case. The CASR condemned the custodial murder of Irfan at Raisatti police station in Sambhal.
The CASR demanded the immediate release of all those arrested in the fabricated Bareilly case and the Sambhal violence case and all those Muslims criminalized in various cases in Uttar Pradesh.
“Custodial killing and point-blank range encounters, especially of Muslim minorities, are becoming a routine occurrence or feature in Uttar Pradesh,” said CSR in a press note.
It adds, “Criminalization of merely offering Namaz at a private place was a direct abuse of the fundamental right of people mentioned in Article 25. It manifests stripping the Muslim minorities of fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution and the ascendancy of Hindutva fascism. It constitutes the broader crackdown of the fascist BJP-RSS government on minorities to reduce them to second-class citizens in India.”
“Such events are a testament to Hindutva and Brahmanical fascism simmering at a boiling point and the Muslim community being marginalized and criminalized at a scale unparalleled.”
“It also demonstrates that opposition parties or democratic forces have organized no effective organized resistance to check the merciless communal attacks of the Saffron brigade, with the survival of the Muslims endangered as never before. It is the order of the day for Muslims to be targeted by vile propaganda, intense intimidation, and mob violence. There is no organization to protect the rights of the Muslim community,” it adds.
CASR called for democratic and progressive organizations and individuals to unite and organize a resistance struggle against the Hindutva fascist attack on the oppressed and exploited sections of society.
Campaign Against State Repression (CASR) constituents are: (AIRSO, AISA, AISF, APCR, BASF, BSM, Bhim Army, bsCEM, CEM, CRPP, CTF, DISSC, DSU, DTF, Forum Against Repression Telengana, Fraternity, IAPL, Innocence Network, Karnataka Jan Shakti, Progressive Lawyers Association, Mazdoor Adhikar Sanghthan, Mazdoor Patrika, Morcha Patrika, NAPM, Nishant Natya Manch, Nowruz, NTUI, People’s Watch, Rihai Manch, Samajwadi Jan Parishad, Samajvadi Lok Manch, Bahujan Samajwadi Manch, SFI, United Against Hate, United Peace Alliance, WSS, Y4S)