IN SOLIDARITY WITH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS OF JNU - NEW DELHI UNIVERSITY, INDIA

Source: siawi, March 2, 2016

last updated March 4, 9 pm

IN SOLIDARITY WITH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS OF JNU ( Jawaharlal Nehru University) - NEW DELHI UNIVERSITY, INDIA

The Hindu-Right government of India identifies the nation with its Hindu majority and imposes the domination of Hinduism over all citizens of other denominations and “lower†castes.

Over the past few years, the Hindu-Right has curtailed free speech at universities, banned books, and falsified history.

Students protesting against the oppression of non-Hindu citizens and “lower†castes have been fiercely repressed and police has been called within the premises of the university in Delhi.

In protest, university teachers now organize lectures in the open to freely discuss nation, nationalism, and the politics of the Hindu-Right.

A protest march to the Parliament in New Delhi is being organized on March 2, and on this occasion Delhi students call for international solidarity.

We the undersigned, fully aware of the dangers of all fundamentalist extreme-Rights, wholeheartedly support the protest movement of students and teachers at JNU - Delhi University and protestors against the Hindu-Right government in India.

Signed

Amel Grami, professor at the University of Manouba, Tunisia

Ariane Brunet, Centre for Secular Space

Chulani Kodikara, Research Associate at the International Center for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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Meredith Tax, Chair, Centre for Secular Space

Nadia El Fani, Tunisian Filmmaker

Nahla Mahmoud, Spokesperson of Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain

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