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The fact that climate activist Greta Thunberg supports the farmers’ protests via Twitter is controversial in India. An Indian activist is now arrested.
- In If became a climate activist of Fridays for Future arrested the the Peasant protests had supported.
- Disha Ravi is accused of working on a toolkit for the protests. This had Greta Thunberg on Twitter divided.
- Counter-demonstrators in India don’t like that Greta Thunberg the Protests supported.
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New Delhi – In If is the climate activist Disha Ravi related to the Peasant protests been arrested. The 22-year-old activist of the global climate protection movement Fridays for Future is accused of material with climate activist Greta Thunberg to have shared that then on Twitter has spread.
It is a so-called “toolkit” for the protests, which lists how the protests that have been going on since November farmers can be supported. It includes tips for hashtags and online campaigns, among other things.
Reason for arrest: A document from Greta Thunberg on Twitter
According to the police, the campaign material is part of a conspiracy by Sikh separatists and Ravi one of the corresponding main conspirators: inside. The Fridays-for-Future-The leader and student should have worked with the separatists to spread dissatisfaction with the Indian state.
In a court in the capital Delhi in the north of the country on Sunday (February 14th, 2021), she denied the allegation of conspiracy and sedition. You have only edited two lines of the material, which was subsequently published by Greta Thunberg on Twitter spread, she said, according to NDTV. She had previously been arrested in southern Bengaluru, the police reported.
Greta Thunberg shared a protest guide for the peasant protests in India on Twitter.
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Police: Disha Ravi wrote more than two lines of Greta Thunberg’s “Toolkit”
As the “Guardian” reports, the police are convinced that Disha Ravi wrote more than two lines of the document. Ravi will now remain in police custody for five days so that the police can check their connections with the in If banned group “Sikhs for Justice” can investigate. The group is working to split the state of Punjab from India.
The arrest aroused criticism, especially from environmental groups who condemned her. Delhi’s Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal also wrote down on Monday Twitterthat the arrest was an unprecedented attack on democracy: “Supporting our farmers is not a crime.”
Greta Thunberg expressed her solidarity on Twitter with peasant protests in India
Tens of thousands have been camping since November Farmers around the capital and mostly peacefully demand the repeal of controversial market liberalization laws. However, violence broke out between security protesters demonstrating in late January. At least one farmer died and 400 police officers were injured, according to police.
The laws are supposed to make it easier for companies to get direct from Farmer: inside to buy. So far, in If Grain mostly traded in state-organized wholesale markets with middlemen at guaranteed minimum prices. The government argues that producers can make higher profits on the free market and that the reform will modernize agriculture. The farmers, on the other hand, fear a drop in prices.
The climate activist Greta Thunberg had found out about the short message service Twitter Solidarity with the protests of the farmers: inside. There she wrote at the beginning of February: “We stand in solidarity with the peasant protest in India”. The fact that she participates in this way did not go down well everywhere in India.
Foreign Ministry on Twitter statements: Greta Thunberg interferes
So threw the Indian Foreign Ministry Greta Thunberg intend to intervene in the matter without having sufficient expertise. Demonstrators also burned pictures of themselves on the street Greta Thunberg and the US singer Rihannathat focus on Twitter had also shown solidarity.
Against Greta Thunberg the police already had because of that Dissemination of the protest toolkit determined: As the “Guardian” and “Aljazeera” report, Thunberg was accused of being involved in an international criminal conspiracy against India. (Friederike Meier / dpa)
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