[Wikimediaindia-l] Condition of a Wikimedian, arrested by UP Police

[praveenp]

Dear Indian Wikimedians,

As many of you may have known, one of our fellow Wikimedian was arrested by
Uttar Pradesh Police in October 2020. His name is Siddique Kappan (His
wikimedia username is User:Sidheeq). He is from Kerala, and he was active
in Wikimedia projects (mainly in Malayalam Wikipedia) until his arrest.

Incidently he is a journalist and he was arrested from the home of Hathras
rape and murder victim while reporting the victim Dalit girl's family
members. UP Police has slapped Sedition, Terrorism as well as UAPA charges
against him.

Kappen is diabetic and now COVID positive. He was admitted to hospital only
after he collapsed in the jail cell. With his deteriorating health, it was
accused that Kappan was chained to hospital bed like an animal. Today's
news reports say that he is in critical condition. (You could always google
"Siddique Kappan")

As a tone deaf people I don't expect anything from this mail, I just wish
to share the information.

Stay Inside, Stay Complementary (non-critical), Stay safe, Stay healthy.


User:Praveenp

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Siddique's en.wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sidheeq
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[Wikimediaindia-l] WMF Fundraising campaign India cancelled

[Julia Brungs]

Dear all,

We informed you about our fundraising test back in March [1] and I just
quickly wanted to follow up on this initial message. Due to the COVID 19
situation in India we have decided to not run the fundraising campaign. The
campaign will happen at some stage in the future and I will be in touch
with more details in plenty of time.

Our thoughts are with you all and for those of you who are not aware yet,
there is COVID 19 support available for Indian Wikipedia volunteers [2].

In case you have not met me yet, hi, I am Julia, the new Community
Relations person in the Advancement Department. If you have any questions
or comments, please do get in touch and I will help you further.

All my best,
Julia

[1]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2021-March/014944.html

[2]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2021-April/014978.html

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Senior Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMF Fundraising campaign India cancelled

[টিটো দত্ত Tito Dutta]

Hello,
Thanks for the update and the good wishes. Thanks a lot for sharing the
support for Wikimedians details.
Regards,


রবি, ৯ মে, ২০২১ ১:৩৭ AM তারিখে Julia Brungs  লিখেছেন:

> Dear all,
>
> We informed you about our fundraising test back in March [1] and I just
> quickly wanted to follow up on this initial message. Due to the COVID 19
> situation in India we have decided to not run the fundraising campaign. The
> campaign will happen at some stage in the future and I will be in touch
> with more details in plenty of time.
>
> Our thoughts are with you all and for those of you who are not aware yet,
> there is COVID 19 support available for Indian Wikipedia volunteers [2].
>
> In case you have not met me yet, hi, I am Julia, the new Community
> Relations person in the Advancement Department. If you have any questions
> or comments, please do get in touch and I will help you further.
>
> All my best,
> Julia
>
> [1]
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2021-March/014944.html
>
> [2]
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2021-April/014978.html
>
> --
> *Julia Brungs*
> Senior Community Relations Specialist
> Wikimedia Foundation 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Condition of a Wikimedian, arrested by UP Police

[Abhinav srivastava]

I pray for User:Sidheeq speedy recovery. Having known and worked with him.
This is deeply concerning.



On Sun, 9 May 2021, 01:36 praveenp,  wrote:

> Dear Indian Wikimedians,
>
> As many of you may have known, one of our fellow Wikimedian was arrested
> by Uttar Pradesh Police in October 2020. His name is Siddique Kappan (His
> wikimedia username is User:Sidheeq). He is from Kerala, and he was active
> in Wikimedia projects (mainly in Malayalam Wikipedia) until his arrest.
>
> Incidently he is a journalist and he was arrested from the home of Hathras
> rape and murder victim while reporting the victim Dalit girl's family
> members. UP Police has slapped Sedition, Terrorism as well as UAPA charges
> against him.
>
> Kappen is diabetic and now COVID positive. He was admitted to hospital
> only after he collapsed in the jail cell. With his deteriorating health, it
> was accused that Kappan was chained to hospital bed like an animal. Today's
> news reports say that he is in critical condition. (You could always google
> "Siddique Kappan")
>
> As a tone deaf people I don't expect anything from this mail, I just wish
> to share the information.
>
> Stay Inside, Stay Complementary (non-critical), Stay safe, Stay healthy.
>
>
> User:Praveenp
>
> -
>
> Siddique's en.wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sidheeq
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Condition of a Wikimedian, arrested by UP Police

[Yohann Thomas]

I have been following up on news regarding him, but I didn't know he has
covid now..

I hope he recovers quickly.. & will pray for him.



On Sun, May 9, 2021, 1:36 AM praveenp  wrote:

> Dear Indian Wikimedians,
>
> As many of you may have known, one of our fellow Wikimedian was arrested
> by Uttar Pradesh Police in October 2020. His name is Siddique Kappan (His
> wikimedia username is User:Sidheeq). He is from Kerala, and he was active
> in Wikimedia projects (mainly in Malayalam Wikipedia) until his arrest.
>
> Incidently he is a journalist and he was arrested from the home of Hathras
> rape and murder victim while reporting the victim Dalit girl's family
> members. UP Police has slapped Sedition, Terrorism as well as UAPA charges
> against him.
>
> Kappen is diabetic and now COVID positive. He was admitted to hospital
> only after he collapsed in the jail cell. With his deteriorating health, it
> was accused that Kappan was chained to hospital bed like an animal. Today's
> news reports say that he is in critical condition. (You could always google
> "Siddique Kappan")
>
> As a tone deaf people I don't expect anything from this mail, I just wish
> to share the information.
>
> Stay Inside, Stay Complementary (non-critical), Stay safe, Stay healthy.
>
>
> User:Praveenp
>
> -
>
> Siddique's en.wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sidheeq
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Condition of a Wikimedian, arrested by UP Police

[Bodhisattwa Mandal]

Hi Praveenp,

First of all, thanks for your courage to bring this incident openly in the
mailing list. This was one of the most disturbing news from last year. The
overall incident of how Siddique was arrested and charged for sedition
while trying to report a gang rape case, how he was treated in the prison
and in the hospital was extremely distressing.

I personally always felt that individual Wikimedia volunteers are always in
an extremely vulnerable position. There is no legal support system present
in the Indian Wikimedia ecosystem to safeguard or prevent Wikimedia
volunteers from being harrassed by state or charged or arrested for any
controversial content present on Wikipedia. Although Sidheeq was not
charged for anything related to his Wikimedia work and to some people,
maybe his arrest has nothing to do with the Wikimedia community, but it
gives us a chance to think, what happens if this kind of incident happens
to any one of us with respect to any controversial content present on any
Wikimedia sites. I strongly feel that we need to build a good legal support
system sustainable enough to help volunteers in distress anytime anywhere
in India; the scope of such a support system can be defined or discussed,
but something should be there.

At present, as volunteers, we are so helpless that we can only pray that
everything will be fine someday automagically, but that is just to console
ourselves. The fact is we are too powerless to condemn the incident or
issue a statement or even bring this topic to the mailing list. Personally,
I feel helpless like everyone else. I just hope that someday this
discussion will help build a legal support system whom we can approach
while in distress.

Regards,
Bodhisattwa


On Sun, May 9, 2021, 08:56 Abhinav srivastava  wrote:

> I pray for User:Sidheeq speedy recovery. Having known and worked with him.
> This is deeply concerning.
>
>
>
> On Sun, 9 May 2021, 01:36 praveenp,  wrote:
>
>> Dear Indian Wikimedians,
>>
>> As many of you may have known, one of our fellow Wikimedian was arrested
>> by Uttar Pradesh Police in October 2020. His name is Siddique Kappan (His
>> wikimedia username is User:Sidheeq). He is from Kerala, and he was active
>> in Wikimedia projects (mainly in Malayalam Wikipedia) until his arrest.
>>
>> Incidently he is a journalist and he was arrested from the home of
>> Hathras rape and murder victim while reporting the victim Dalit girl's
>> family members. UP Police has slapped Sedition, Terrorism as well as UAPA
>> charges against him.
>>
>> Kappen is diabetic and now COVID positive. He was admitted to hospital
>> only after he collapsed in the jail cell. With his deteriorating health, it
>> was accused that Kappan was chained to hospital bed like an animal. Today's
>> news reports say that he is in critical condition. (You could always google
>> "Siddique Kappan")
>>
>> As a tone deaf people I don't expect anything from this mail, I just wish
>> to share the information.
>>
>> Stay Inside, Stay Complementary (non-critical), Stay safe, Stay healthy.
>>
>>
>> User:Praveenp
>>
>> -
>>
>> Siddique's en.wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sidheeq
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Condition of a Wikimedian, arrested by UP Police

[Vikram Vincent]

Hello!
Though the Foundation has a legal support email id, I dont think it has
practical value. Further, in this highly polarised political environment
where we can be attacked in real life for work done on Wikipedia, I agree
with the point on building a legal support system for work done at least
within Wikipedia.
Best
Vikram

On Sunday, 9 May 2021, Bodhisattwa Mandal 
wrote:

> I personally always felt that individual Wikimedia volunteers are always
in an extremely vulnerable position. There is no legal support system
present in the Indian Wikimedia ecosystem to safeguard or prevent Wikimedia
volunteers from being harrassed by state or charged or arrested for any
controversial content present on Wikipedia. Although Sidheeq was not
charged for anything related to his Wikimedia work and to some people,
maybe his arrest has nothing to do with the Wikimedia community, but it
gives us a chance to think, what happens if this kind of incident happens
to any one of us with respect to any controversial content present on any
Wikimedia sites. I strongly feel that we need to build a good legal support
system sustainable enough to help volunteers in distress anytime anywhere
in India; the scope of such a support system can be defined or discussed,
but something should be there.
>
> At present, as volunteers, we are so helpless that we can only pray that
everything will be fine someday automagically, but that is just to console
ourselves. The fact is we are too powerless to condemn the incident or
issue a statement or even bring this topic to the mailing list. Personally,
I feel helpless like everyone else. I just hope that someday this
discussion will help build a legal support system whom we can approach
while in distress.
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