TY - JOUR T1 - European solidarity statement with academics and students in India T2 - Verfassungsblog N2 - We are students, scholars, and academics at European universities who unequivocally condemn the violent attacks on student and faculty members of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi that took place on 5th January 2020. We see the attacks as part of the larger pattern of systematic violence that is being consistently inflicted on students across Indian universities for the past month by the Indian police in collusion with far-right organisations. We are shocked by the proclivity of the Indian State to turn upon its own students, and by the failure of universities and other academic institutions to protect their members; the cases are too many to be all listed here, but along with JNU, this inhumane orchestration of violence has extended to Aligarh Muslim University, Banaras Hindu University in Uttar Pradesh, and Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi. ... KW - Freedom of research KW - Narendra Modi Y1 - 2020 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53689 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-536897 UR - https://verfassungsblog.de/european-solidarity-statement-with-academics-and-students-in-india/ N1 - LICENSED UNDER CC BY NC ND IS - 2020/1/08 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - Verfassungsblog.de CY - Berlin ER -