CHENNAI – Disha ravi she is a 22 year old girl with an earring on one nostril and a small world painted on her left cheek. A world that she would like to save from global warming. For this he founded the Indian section of Fridays for Future.
She works as a waitress in a vegan restaurant, plants trees, goes to clean lakes, wants to work with turtles. Instead, for the Delhi police, Disha ravi she is a criminal conspiracy theorist responsible for sedition with the intent to harm the Indian state
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For this, on Saturday night, the agents showed up at her home in Bangalore and arrested her in front of her mother, dragged to the airport and put on a flight to the capital without informing relatives or friends. On Sunday they presented her to the judge, to get five days under arrest and make her confess.
What? To be the mastermind of a subversive plan in league with the secessionists who want to separate the State of Punjab from the rest of India and to have hatched a plan for the assault on the Red Fort in the mass demonstration of farmers on January 26 in Delhi .
Just her, the 22-year-old girl who recently graduated in business administration from Mount Carmel College, the one with the earring and the world painted on her face. The charge is for having plotted with the Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg by publishing a manual in support of the strike against three neoliberal laws in favor of large industries in the agricultural sector.
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The manual was tweeted by Greta shortly after the famous tweet of Rihanna: “Why aren’t we dealing with this?” with a link to an article on the protest. The celebrity intervention prompted the fundamentalist and misogynist supporters of the fundamentalist government to burn posters with images of international icons, including that of Meena Harris, who tweeted in defense of Ravi yesterday.
In those days, Greta deleted the tweet with the manual, but tweeted it again shortly after, with corrections. The Delhi police are convinced that the manual of the first tweet was written by Ravi in league with the Poetic Justice association, linked to the secessionists. And since not only the hashtags to use to criticize the laws were indicated, but also how to organize protests around the Indian embassies, the sedition charge was triggered
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The commissioner in charge of the special forces of Delhi, Praveen ranjan, said: “The manual suggests a plot to wage an economic, social, cultural and regional war against India and to disseminate hostility against the Indian government. Fostering disharmony between different groups on a religious, social and cultural basis is tantamount to a criminal plot “. The police, in the confiscated cell phone, found a chat in which Ravi asks Greta to stop talking about the subject because this increased the risk of an arrest.
In tears in front of the judge, the girl defended herself by saying that she only corrected two lines. He has two peasant grandparents, so Ravi said, that’s why he fights against global warming, because he has seen the damage it does to the fields. The manual was nothing more than a way to spread farmers’ grievances.
But the arrest is confirmed among many international and Indian protests, first of all that of the Coalition for environmental justice which speaks of extrajudicial kidnapping, witch hunts with false accusations, and collects signatures to free her from a stranglehold against dissent that in Modi’s India becomes increasingly worrying.
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