Scores of farmers were also injured but officials have not provided more details. 26 - India’s Republic Day - hundreds of police officers were injured and a protester died. Tens of thousands of farmers have been hunkering down at the Indian capital’s fringes to protest new agricultural laws they say will leave them poorer and at the mercy of corporations. “Disha Ravi’s arrest is the latest escalation in India’s crackdown on free expression and political dissent, as it seeks to stifle the farmers’ mass protests,” said Shashi Tharoor, an MP from the main opposition Congress party. Ravi’s detention sparked outrage on social media and among politicians and farm unions. She was ordered held in custody for at least five days. Greta Thunberg sparks criminal conspiracy probe in India with accidental tweet Thunberg later deleted her tweet but not before screenshots were taken and it was widely shared online.Ī lawyer for Ravi, from the southern city of Bengaluru, was not immediately available for comment. Farmers take part in a march to India’s capital New Delhi to protest against the central government’s recent agricultural reforms, in Ambala on November 26, 2020. “Later, she asked Greta to remove the main doc after its incriminating details accidentally got into public domain,” the force said. Ravi was “the one who shared the Toolkit doc with Greta Thunberg,” Delhi police insisted on Twitter on Sunday, saying she also started the WhatsApp group that first created the document that she drafted and edited. It spelled out “suggested posts” about the ongoing protests, whom to tag, and also demonstrations at Indian embassies that needed highlighting. Greta Thunberg speaks to participants at a climate change protest on Januin Lausanne, Switzerland. The planning then came to light when 18-year-old Swedish eco-activist Thunberg accidentally tweeted the toolkit link to her 4.9 million followers. Her arrest followed condemnation by India’s government over “vested interest groups trying to enforce their agenda” - after Thunberg, Rihanna and Vice President Kamala Harris’ niece Meena Harris were among those suddenly tweeting their support to the farmers. Ravi, a leader of the Indian arm of Thunberg’s Fridays for Future protest movement, is being investigated for possible sedition - a charge that carries a penalty of life imprisonment, a police source told Reuters. How a business conference turned into the world’s most exclusive partyĥ0 years of predictions that the climate apocalypse is nighĪn Indian activist has been arrested for allegedly making an anti-government protest toolkit that Greta Thunberg accidentally shared online.ĭisha Ravi, 22, could face up to life in prison following her arrest Sunday in connection to the online document, which calls for organized support for India’s deadly farmers’ protests. Alexander Skarsgård ‘nearly ran over’ Greta Thunberg with his bike
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