State: Maharashtra

Year: 2025

Date: June 18, 2025

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Censorship – Protests/Meetings

In the early hours of the morning, Mumbai police came to the houses of various Political Party leaders & Social Activists to detain them to prevent a peaceful protest against the genocide in Gaza that is scheduled to be held at the Azad Maidan in Mumbai today at 3.30 pm. The protests were part of the National Call issued by the Left Parties and were held across the country, but it’s only in Mumbai that the state decided to crackdown.Those detained include Com. Prakash Reddy (CPI), Meraj Siddiqui (Samajwadi Party, Com. Raju Korde (PWP), Com. Shyam Gohil (CPI-ML Liberation), Feroze Mithiborwala (India Palestine Solidarity Forum), Junaid Khan (PWP), and many Left Party cadres from across the city.