Indian journalist, a mathematics student, jailed for raising anti-government slogans in Tamil Nadu
Lois Sofia, writer and Polis contributor, prolific with her dispatches on deadly state violence against people protesting mining giant Vedanta in Thoothukudi, was jailed for shouting “fascist BJP government down, down”
An Indian journalist and mathematics student was arrested late Monday by the Tamil Nadu police after the state chief of the country’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party complained against her for raising anti-government slogans. Canada-based mathematics student and writer Lois Sofia, 28, was arrested and sent to judicial custody for 15 days after she shouted “fascist BJP government down, down” on board a flight in the presence of Tamil Nadu BJP president Tamilisai Soundararajan who filed a complaint, The Indian Express reported. Sofia, on her way home from Canada, was with her parents who joined her at Chennai for a flight to Thoothukudi. The incident took place after the flight landed at the Thoothukudi airport, The Indian Express reported. After the complaint against Sofia in the airport, Soundararajan told the media that Sofia “could belong to some terror outfit by seeing the way she behaved,” The News Minute reported. Sofia has been prolific…
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