Motoks Protest in Tinsukia Demanding Release of Peasant Leader Akhil Gogoi

Tinsukia, March 5, 2020:

Motoks, an indigenous community of Assam, took out a protest rally on March 5 to demand the release of peasant leader, Akhil Gogoi.

Today, the Tinsukia unit of the Motok Yuba Chhatra Parishad, a youth organization of the tribal community, raised slogans of protest against the Government and demanded the immediate release of anti-Citizenship Amendment Act leader Akhil Gogoi, who is being kept at the Guwahati Central Jail.

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Decrying the Government's iron-fist treatment of the movement's leaders, the young Motoks burnt effigies of the Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and his right-hand man Himanta Biswa Sarma, and demanded them to release Akhil and his cohorts at the earliest.

Now, the demand for a proper medical check-up of ailing Assam peasant leader Akhil Gogoi, who was arrested in Jorhat last December amid the protests against the BJP regime’s enactment of the Citizenship law, has reached the National Human Rights Commission.

Writing to Justice (retd.) H.L. Dattu, who is the Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Babloo Loitongbam (Human Rights Alert, Manipur) and Henri Tiphagne (Human Rights Defenders Alert, India)  stated that Human Rights Defender (HRD) Akhil Gogoi, who has been jailed in Guwahati’s Central Jail, must be accorded proper treatment, preferably at the AIIMS in New Delhi.

In the petition, concerns pertaining to his “deteriorating health conditions” have been raised, and the Comission has been asked to immediately to look into the matter.

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