A 22-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi was arrested by Cyber Cell of Delhi Police from Bengaluru. She was arrested for allegedly sharing with Greta Thunberg the ‘toolkit’ related to the farmer’s protest. The climate activist was sent to five-day police custody in the Greta Thunberg Toolkit case.
‘Toolkit’ is a term activists use for a campaign information document. The said toolkit is a guide to the anti-government farmer protests that was tweeted by environmentalist Greta Thunberg.
Delhi police tweeted that she was an “editor” of the toolkit document and a “key conspirator in document’s formulation & dissemination”, adding that she collaborated to “spread disaffection against the Indian state”.
Her arrest sparked widespread outrage, with politicians, academics, activists, authors and poets among those condemning the police action.
Here are some of the relations:
Jairam Ramesh, a former minister and lawmaker for the opposition Congress party, called her arrest and detention “completely atrocious”
Disha Ravi is a graduate in Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from Mount Carmel College in Bengaluru. She is a co-founder of a group named ‘Fridays For Future India’.
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