Detention Solidarity Network

You can learn more about Detention Solidarity Network on our website and Twitter page.

A conversation with Aiman Khan & Ishita Chakrabarty on the police attack against students protesting the Citizenship Amendment Act at Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University on December 15 2019, one year on. We discuss what happened, NHRC's deficient investigation & the findings of a recent report titled "The Dismantling of Minority Education: Police Violence at Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia" released by Citizens Against Hate which argues that these acts constitute cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment as per the international law on torture. Aiman Khan and Ishita Chakrabarty are independent researchers. For a read-along transcript of this episode, click here.  You can learn more about Detention Solidarity Network on our website and Twitter page.

A conversation with Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project (CPAProject) on their 2020 report, "Countermapping Pandemic Policing: A Study of Sanctioned Violence in Madhya Pradesh" & on what motivates their intervention in the criminal justice system, the everyday policing of certain groups (like denotified tribal communites) and the over-reliance on criminal law to manage the COVID-19 pandemic in India.  For a read-along transcript of this episode, click here. The CPAProject is a grassroots litigation-research intervention based in Bhopal that particularly focuses on accountability against the criminalisation of marginalised communities across the state of Madhya Pradesh. You can learn more about Detention Solidarity Network on our website and Twitter page.

A conversation with Professor Jinee Lokaneeta on her latest book, "The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India" (2020). For a read-along transcript of this episode, click here. Dr. Jinee Lokaneeta is Professor and Chair of Political Science and International Relations at Drew University, USA. She is also the author of "Transnational Torture: Law, Violence and State Power in the United States and India" (2011). You can learn more about Detention Solidarity Network on their website and Twitter. Music and audio editing assistance for this episode was provided by Words n Bites.