The Manipur police have booked a three-member fact-finding team of the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) under penal provisions for conspiracy to wage war against the Government of India, assaulting President/Governor with the intent of compelling them to exercise a power, making statements prejudicial to national integration, defamation and promoting enmity among two groups and inciting riots, for concluding that the ethnic conflict under way in Manipur was “state-sponsored violence”.
This comes even as the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) on Monday condemned the registration of the FIR and asked the State government to “stop criminalising human rights work”.
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