Topic: Hathras

The fact-finding team led by prominent activist Medha Patkar noted that the Hathras incident is "a result of cumulative effect of caste, gender, inequality, and injustice."

In national capital Delhi, an issue of refusal to take an FIR on the alleged rape and murder of a Dalit girl, inhuman physical torture inflicted on the victim's family along with constant threats and ending up burning off the body of the victim forcefully.

11 women and queer activists, academics, and journalists belonging to Dalit-Bahujan-Adivasi-Vimukta communities have filed an Impleadment Application in the matter pertaining to the rape and murder of the 19-year-old Dalit woman in Hathras by upper-caste Hindu men.

Here, Raihanath CT, wife of Siddique Kappan speaks to Maktoob journalist Shaheen Abdulla.

Condemning the arrests of journalists and activists under draconian UAPA for demanding justice in the case of the brutal gangrape of the Dalit woman in Hathras, the Campaign Against State Repression demands the withdrawal of the case against them, the immediate release of Atikur Rahman, national treasurer of Campus Front of India (CFI), Masud Khan, CFI Delhi general secretary and senior journalist Siddique Kappan, secretary of Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) Delhi unit and Alam, the car driver and action against the perpetrators of the horrific rape.

While the Supreme Court adjourning for four weeks the habeas corpus petition seeking the release of Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan, who was recently arrested in Hathras under draconian UAPA, the Court asked the petitioner to approach the Allahabad High Court for bail.