The All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) strongly condemns the manner in which the police have lodged false criminal cases against the Publisher and Editor of Outlook magazine, and the author of one of its recent stories, Neha Dixit, at the behest of certain members connected with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. This is one more example of how the police and law enforcement machinery is being used to curb the freedom of expression and hound media persons speaking up against communal strategies of the Sangh Parivar. AIDWA demands that these cases be withdrawn immediately, and police protection provided to all of them avoid any possible physical attacks from goons owing allegiance to Hindutva forces.
In a statement issued on 2nd of August 2016, the AIDWA has conveyed its strong protest about the trafficking of 31 young tribal girls from Assam in order to indoctrinate them in RSS camps, as reported in Outlook. We reiterate our demand that since this amounts to a violation of national and international child trafficking laws, cases should be filed against the traffickers, alleged to be RSS workers from Punjab and Gujarat.
