The military operation against so-called Maoist groups in the mineral rich central India is widely seen as a move to clear all forms of opposition to colonization and resource grabbing in the region.

G.N. Saibaba, un antiguo profesor de la Universidad de Delhi, fue detenido en 2014 y posteriormente condenado mediante la legislación antiterrorista india por presuntos vínculos con el proscrito Partido Comunista de la India (Maoísta)

G.N. Saibaba, a former professor at Delhi University, was arrested in 2014 and subsequently convicted under India’s anti-terror legislation over alleged ties to the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist)

Indian activist and journalist Gautam Navlakha is in prison as part of what many observers have termed a crackdown on dissent in India. The 68-year-old has been fighting a years-long legal battle against the Indian state.

The teachers were holding a meeting demanding the release of nine activists arrested last year on charges of association with the Communist Party of India (Maoist)

Saibaba, a tireless fighter for the rights of Indigenous communities, has been in jail since March 2017 on charges of association with the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist)