European solidarity statement with academics and students in India

  • 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. ...

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URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-536897
URL:https://verfassungsblog.de/european-solidarity-statement-with-academics-and-students-in-india/
Parent Title (German):Verfassungsblog
Publisher:Verfassungsblog.de
Place of publication:Berlin
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2020
Date of first Publication:2020/01/08
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Contributing Corporation:Students, scholars, and academics at European universities
Release Date:2020/06/10
Tag:Freedom of research; Narendra Modi
Issue:2020/1/08
Page Number:8
First Page:1
Last Page:8
Note:
LICENSED UNDER CC BY NC ND
HeBIS-PPN:467352216
Institutes:Rechtswissenschaft / Rechtswissenschaft
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitung 4.0