Manufacturing Evidence: with Arundhati Roy, Suchitra Vijayan and Arjun Sethi.

 

An international coalition of human rights defenders, with evidence gathered by activists on the ground, compiled Manufacturing Evidence: How the Police is framing and arresting constitutional rights defenders in India – a report that once again exposes the communal bias of the Indian Police. The report Manufacturing evidence, in the first place establishes that Delhi Police has systematically failed to help Muslim survivors of the attacks in their pursuit of justice. On the contrary, the Police have created a hostile environment for Muslim litigants: failing to register First Information Reports (FIRs), withholding public information about the filed FIRs, and also intimidating litigants — especially those accusing the Police of crimes. In every way, the Muslim community has been gaslighted by the Police. At the same time, the Police have also embarked on an ambitious program to shift the blame for the attacks onto the Muslim community itself, attempting to transform Muslims from victims to perpetrators. In this press conference author Arundhati Roy, Civil Rights Activist Arjun Sethi, and Lawyer Suchitra Vijayan discuss the report and the larger repercussions of crushing dissent. You can read the entire report here https://thepolisproject.com/manufactu...