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Claudia Webbe, Independent Member of Parliament for Leicester East addresses hundreds of people from more than 20 diaspora groups from across the country. The protestors demanded that the British government stop enabling the genocidal fascist regime of Narendra Modi, that the international community act to prevent the impending genocide of the Muslim minority, and demanded the immediate release of Teesta Setalwad, Mohammed Zubair, RB Sreekumar, Umar Khaled and all anti-CAA protestors, the Bhima Koregaon accused and all political prisoners.
#resisthindutvafascism #IStandWithZubair #freeteesta #FreeZubair #TeestaSetalvad #StandWithAfreenFatima #UmarKhalid.

Other speakers at the rally included Claudia Webbe, MP for Leicester East, Sonali Bhattacharyya National Secretary Momentum, and many others.
After gathering at 10 Downing Street, the protestors marched to the Indian High Commission.

Further background:
India is witnessing a normalisation of genocidal violence against religious minorities - Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and Dalits are discriminated against, demonized and killed with impunity – against a backdrop of state inaction and well-documented state complicity. There have been pogroms against Muslims in Gujarat (2002), Christians in Odisha (2008), Muslims in Uttar Pradesh (2013), and in Delhi (2019). 90% of religious hate crimes in India in the last decade have occurred since #Modi came to power.
We have tragically been numbed to the shocking instances of
* Muslims were killed and gang-raped for their choice of food.
* Muslim school children are kicked out of schools where they have been studying for years for their choice of dress.
* Muslim families were evicted from their homes which were also demolished.
* Ten Dalit women were raped every day in India last year- highlighting how consistently over the years these are the most vulnerable among rape victims across India.
* Millions of Muslims are under the threat of losing their citizenship under discriminatory citizenship laws.
* Lynching by mobs- numerous occurrences making this an everyday tragedy for Muslims.
* Muslim women auctioned online
* Muslim houses of worship were demolished with no punitive action or compensation.
* Abusing the Prophet on live national television by the spokesperson of the ruling party.
* Hate speech and threats of rape from public and religious platforms.
* Boycott of Muslim traders.
* Christians were falsely accused of forced conversion and churches were attacked.
* Muslim men and women are arrested and jailed for years without trial and when acquitted there is neither compensation nor apology
Church staff attacked, pastor’s daughter was molested.
* Gang rape and murder of Dalit girl whose body was forcibly cremated, journalist and student activist who went to report on the case arrested.
* Revising history by removing Muslims from the list of freedom fighters.
* School books were rewritten with the narrative of Muslim rulers are invaders.
* Bollywood’s (i.e. India’s biggest cultural export) state supports Islamophobic movies.

The country’s famed example of unity in diversity and model of co-existence sadly is now a chapter in a not-too-distant history and is being compared with Germany. It’s our responsibility as conscientious global citizens to lend and amplify the voices of these oppressed and marginalised communities in India that are now at risk of genocide.

This protest march was on the 3rd of July 2022 in London, and began opposite 10 Downing Street and ended at Aldwych outside the High Commission of India.

The protesters at the rally showed that the victims and those resisting this fascist violence in India are not alone and stood in solidarity with them.

Help us raise public awareness and get our lawmakers to condemn the Indian government led by Prime Minister Modi and to accept our demand to actively monitor the support networks in the UK and legislate to block funding to these Hindutva groups by sharing this video and joining us on social media.

Kalpana Wilson, of South Asia Solidarity Group addresses hundreds of people from more than 20 diaspora groups from across the country. The protestors demanded that the British government stop enabling the genocidal fascist regime of Narendra Modi, that the international community act to prevent the impending genocide of the Muslim minority, and demanded the immediate release of Teesta Setalwad, Mohammed Zubair, RB Sreekumar, Umar Khaled and all anti-CAA protestors, the Bhima Koregaon accused and all political prisoners.
#resisthindutvafascism #IStandWithZubair #freeteesta #FreeZubair #TeestaSetalvad #StandWithAfreenFatima #UmarKhalid.

Other speakers at the rally included Claudia Webbe, MP for Leicester East, Sonali Bhattacharyya National Secretary Momentum, and many others.
After gathering at 10 Downing Street, the protestors marched to the Indian High Commission.

Further background:
India is witnessing a normalisation of genocidal violence against religious minorities - Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and Dalits are discriminated against, demonized and killed with impunity – against a backdrop of state inaction and well-documented state complicity. There have been pogroms against Muslims in Gujarat (2002), Christians in Odisha (2008), Muslims in Uttar Pradesh (2013), and in Delhi (2019). 90% of religious hate crimes in India in the last decade have occurred since #Modi came to power.
We have tragically been numbed to the shocking instances of
* Muslims were killed and gang-raped for their choice of food.
* Muslim school children are kicked out of schools where they have been studying for years for their choice of dress.
* Muslim families were evicted from their homes which were also demolished.
* Ten Dalit women were raped every day in India last year- highlighting how consistently over the years these are the most vulnerable among rape victims across India.
* Millions of Muslims are under the threat of losing their citizenship under discriminatory citizenship laws.
* Lynching by mobs- numerous occurrences making this an everyday tragedy for Muslims.
* Muslim women auctioned online
* Muslim houses of worship were demolished with no punitive action or compensation.
* Abusing the Prophet on live national television by the spokesperson of the ruling party.
* Hate speech and threats of rape from public and religious platforms.
* Boycott of Muslim traders.
* Christians were falsely accused of forced conversion and churches were attacked.
* Muslim men and women are arrested and jailed for years without trial and when acquitted there is neither compensation nor apology
Church staff attacked, pastor’s daughter was molested.
* Gang rape and murder of Dalit girl whose body was forcibly cremated, journalist and student activist who went to report on the case arrested.
* Revising history by removing Muslims from the list of freedom fighters.
* School books were rewritten with the narrative of Muslim rulers are invaders.
* Bollywood’s (i.e. India’s biggest cultural export) state supports Islamophobic movies.

The country’s famed example of unity in diversity and model of co-existence sadly is now a chapter in a not-too-distant history and is being compared with Germany. It’s our responsibility as conscientious global citizens to lend and amplify the voices of these oppressed and marginalised communities in India that are now at risk of genocide.

This protest march was on the 3rd of July 2022 in London, and began opposite 10 Downing Street and ended at Aldwych outside the High Commission of India.

The protesters at the rally showed that the victims and those resisting this fascist violence in India are not alone and stood in solidarity with them.

Help us raise public awareness and get our lawmakers to condemn the Indian government led by Prime Minister Modi and to accept our demand to actively monitor the support networks in the UK and legislate to block funding to these Hindutva groups by sharing this video and joining us on social media.

The Kashmir Files: Turning Tragedy into Propaganda
What is the reality of the period portrayed in the film The Kashmir Files?
Why is the Modi government endorsing and aggressively promoting the film?
What are the uses of propaganda in the build-up to a genocide?
Join a panel discussion with
Sanjay Kak, author, activist and filmmaker
Arfa Khanum Sherwani, Senior Editor, The Wire
Kawalpreet Kaur, Lawyer with Human Rights Law Network; National Vice-President, All-India Students' Association
Organised by South Asia Solidarity Group and Jammu Kashmir Law and Public Policy (JKLPP).
Apologies for the short loss of video at the start.

At the demonstration held on the 26th of November 2021, Sarbjit Johal of South Asia Solidarity Group said:

"We, SASG stand here with all these other groups here
TO CELEBRATE THE MASSIVE VICTORY OF THE FARMERS' MOVEMENT
To express our solidarity with the Farmers who in protesting against the farm laws have organised one of the largest and longest protest we have known
The Modi BJP passed these laws at the beginning of the pandemic thinking no one would dare to protest under such conditions.
Yet the farmers refused to give in, women, men, children camped for over a year at Delhi's borders, and in many other places, they faced murderous attacks from right wing supporters of Modi’s govt, lost over 700 of their loved ones - family, friends and supporters - to the bitter cold, to covid, or they were murdered by the police and armed forces. Many have received police charges and have been imprisoned. But despite all these efforts to crush their movement, the the farmers have remained united in their demands and resistance to Modi’s fascism. They have stood up to the corporates who are trying to take over Indian agriculture, and plunder the land for their profits. They have stood up to Ambani and Adani and to British finance capital which backs them.The fact that Modi has been forced to withdraw the laws, shows the power of peoples movements.
They were called Terrorists, Khalistanis, illiterate, simple, peasants. Now that they have won their demand to get the laws repealed, BJP Women like Kangana Ranaut and Uma Bharti have been quick to defend Modi trying to make him look like a caring reformer who really ‘loves the Sikhs’.
But we remember the Gujarat genocide and stand with Zakia Jafri who is fighting for justice today
We remember the Citizenship Amendment Act and stand with all those protesting against this Islamophobic Act stripping muslims of their rights to citizenship
We stand with the political prisoners criminalised for dissenting against Modi’s fascism and demand the release of Khurram Parvez, a leading human rights defender in Kashmir arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention)Act
We remember the mob lynching of Muslims and all the attacks on Dalits fighting for equal rights and we stand with all those across India standing up against Modi’s fascist regime
We will never forget 5th August 2019, the day Modi revoked Kashmir’s special status and we stand with all progressives demanding restoration of Article 370
We of course will never forget that it was India’s peasantry which sustained the freedom movement and eventually ended colonial rule.
And after 1947, every major social movement has had India’s farmers and youth at the forefront. And lets not forget that in the last three decades of HIndutva fascism and Globalisation, it was the movement of farmers against the Special Economic Zones which ended the 1894 Land Acquisition Act, it was farmers and Adivasis who stopped Modis attempt to subvert the 2013 Land Acquisition and Compensation Act in the interest of corporates.
YES!….and we will never forget all those who were killed and injured at Lakhimpur Kheri and we demand the sacking of Ajay Mishra Teni, the BJP Home Minister reponsible for what happened that day.
We as South Asians in the diaspora stand with all those who love democracy and love India.
We stand with the farmers and workers and all those who support them to demand:
1 Minimum Support Price is made a legal right
2 Compensation for the lost lives (700+)
3 Withdrawal of charges against farmers
4 Waiver of pending Electricity bills
5 Sacking of Ajay Mishra Teni, the Minister responsible for Lakhimpur Kheri
Throughout the last year the farmers movement has also amplified the demands of other struggles and movements against fascism. We salute their inspiring solidarity and reiterate those demands too:
-Repeal Labour laws
-Repeal Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA)
-Repeal Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)
-Restore Article 370
We stand United Against Fascism in India!
Fascism will be defeated!"

With Global Women's Strike, Women of Colour Global Womens Strike, Indian Workers Association (GB) and others.
#farmersprotest
#narendramodi
#globalwomensstrike

With #Modi #greenwashing his environmental crimes at #COP26, don't miss this exciting and inspiring meeting which prioritises #Adivasi resistance to corporate crimes, coal and environmental destruction in the face of intense repression.

SPEAKERS:
Soni Sori, Adivasi and women’s rights activist
Phillip Kujur, Adivasi Activist Forum for Indigenous Rights activist
Dayamani Barla, Adivasi journalist and journalist
Disha Ravi - climate activist
Priya Pillai, social and environmental activist
Keval Bharadia, political economist and activist

The session discussed the environmental destruction and widespread dispossession caused by transnational corporations working with India’s #BJP government. Speakers focused on the global importance of people’s resistance, particularly Adivasi (indigenous) communities' resistance, in the face of intense repression and discuss ways of building international solidarity.

Organised by South Asia Solidarity Group and Survival International at the People's Summit COP2

Photo: Hidme Markam, an Adivasi woman activist who has been imprisoned under the draconian UAPA, leading a march.
Photo Credit: Sujit Karma

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South Asia Solidarity Group (SASG) is an anti-imperialist, anti-racist organization based in Britain. We are committed to supporting, publicising, and building solidarity with people’s struggles for justice and democracy and against exploitation, gender and caste based oppression, imperialism, war and the so-called ‘war on terror’ in the countries of South Asia.

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