Joint Statement on the Enforced Disappearing and Custodial Torture of Student and Youth Activists by Police Forces in Delhi, India
21 July 2025 | Countercurrents.org
This joint statement highlights the implications of the enforced disappearances and torture of student and youth activists in and around the city of New Delhi, the national capital of India.
A previous joint statement on repression in two universities in Delhi, published on 5 March 2025 noted that students speaking out on the ongoing state violence in the Adivasi region of Bastar, Chhattisgarh, in central India, and the increasing systematic exclusion of Muslims as citizens of India, were being “arbitrarily picked up, going ‘missing’ while known to be detained in police stations, with some of them being subject to illegal interrogation by intelligence agencies whose remit is high-level national security.” All these actions by state authorities were being justified by “a narrative that delegitimises student and wider activism in public as fearful ‘urban Naxalism’ or Muslim-led disruption against a ‘peaceful Hindu’ state.”…