How the Telangana Police is targeting Adivasi students, lawyers and activists - By Akash Poyam - IAMC
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How the Telangana Police is targeting Adivasi students, lawyers and activists – By Akash Poyam

Since July this year, the Telangana Police have been increasingly persecuting Adivasi residents in the state’s northern districts of Adilabad and Kumuram Bheem Asifabad. 

The police actions rose after Vishnu Warrier, the superintendent of police at Adilabad, released a list on 29 August of people accused of being “Maoist sympathisers.” 

Many of those named in the list are students and human-rights activists from Adivasi communities. Madvi Ramesh, a school teacher who has taken active part in various agitations for Adivasi rights, was named in the list.…

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