Persecution of Indian students and academics in US Academic institutions
InSAF India condemns the actions of the Trump govt and stands in solidarity with students and academics who have been arrested and those who live in the shadow of possible future persecution for merely exercising their first amendment rights to free speech and political views. We welcome the temporary relief given by the US court to Badar Khan Suri’s deportation and hope for justice from the judiciary.
Wall writing is not a crime!
we condemn police violence and detentions of students for their wall writings on JNU campus
Academic freedom outside/inside prison walls
Reflections on speaking at an advocacy event by the University of Oslo’s MA in Human Rights students
When Children Participating in a Play Becomes a Crime
Our academic freedoms are deeply rooted in the arena of public education, and we must stand in solidarity with those who are engaged in public education to ensure the longevity of our own individual and collective academic freedoms. Read more …
Marking four years of the unjust incarceration of Gulfisha Fatima
As Gulfisha Fatima spends another Eid in prison than with her loved ones at home, The Wire published some of her poetry and letters from prison. While mosques are being razed, locked up, eliminated, memories to be confused, overwritten, theatre, stages and streets still witness interfaith solidarity, and powerful stories of love live within and even find their way across prison walls. We reproduce a few extracts from Gulfisha’s letters in prison in The Wire – sharing these simultaneously amplifies so many thing: injustice, pain, love and solidarity, all at once.
Solidarity statement for Palestine by InSAF India
The following statement was our contribution to the public protest meeting organised by the collective ‘Indians for Palestine’ in New Delhi on 23 Feb 2024.
Indigenous Peoples’ Un-Freedoms and Our Academic Freedom: A Call for Solidarity
This joint statement has been endorsed by over 130 signatories, including international academics, activists and civil society organizations, as well as diasporic Indian academics and researchers, working with Adivasi (indigenous) communities in India. Available in 6 languages (English, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Panjabi, Malayalam)
Solidarity statement with Sabyasachi Das and the faculty of Ashoka University by the international academic community
statement of solidarity with economics scholar forced to resign from Ashoka University due to critical research on electoral manipulation