Support to Pramod Mishra and Condemnation of his Imprisonment Conditions
Featured image: Political Prisoner of CPI (Maoist), comrade Pramod Mishra. Source: Avani News.
Comrade Pramod Mishra, a 74-year-old CPI (Maoist) Political Bureau member who has been in Patna Central Jail in Bihar for almost three years, started a hunger strike until death since January 26. Many media and organizations denounced the situation that faces the Indian prisoner. We already shared the statement issued by the Campaign Against State Repression (CASR):
Avani News from India has also echoed the statement by CASR and denounced the situation faced by comrade Pramod Mishra as well as other political prisoners in Indian prisons, which are being denied proper food, lack daily necessities and are being prevented to communicate per telephone with their relatives and lawyers.
Yeni Demokrasi from Turkey also shared the denouncement made by CASR and joined the demands for proper food and conditions for the political prisoners in India. Avani News as well as Yeni Demokrasi denounced the fact that prisoners already have died due to the bad conditions they faced, such as Stan Swamy, and Professor GN Saibaba who died shortly after his release due to inadequate medical treatment.
The Revolutionary Student-Youth Movement (RSYM) from Bangladesh issued a statement. RSYM states that the hunger strike “clearly exposes, in our view, the extent to which the fascist Indian
state respects its own laws regarding “human dignity.” They continue by denouncing that “This method of slow custodial killing-whether in police or prison custody is not a new crime of Indian Hindutva fascists. Nor is the case of Pramod Mishra an isolated incident.” They also join in denouncing the murder of Stan Swamy and Professor GN Saibaba, the repression faced by other political prisoners such as comrade Prashant Bose and now comprade Pramod Mishra, and they also support the demands made by CASR in their statement.
The full statement can be read here:
