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词条 Vigilante attacks in Kerala
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  1. Background

  2. Cochin, 2017

  3. Palakkad, 2017

  4. Trivandrum, 2016

  5. Palakkad, 2015

  6. Cochin, 2014

  7. Calicut, 2016

  8. Malappuram, 2016

  9. Kasaragod, 2016

  10. Kollam, 2016

  11. Kannur, 2012

  12. Kodiyathur, 2011

  13. Kottayam, 1997

  14. Movements against Vigilante

     Hug of Love, 2014  Kiss against Fascism, 2014  Kiss of Love protest, 2014 

  15. See also

  16. References

Incidents of vigilantism have been reported in Kerala.

Background

Vigilante or moral police is a blanket term used to describe vigilante groups that act to enforce a code of morality in India.[1][2] Some of India's laws, and some actions of police forces in India are also considered to be instances of moral policing. The targets of moral policing are any activity that vigilante groups, the government or police deem to be "immoral" and/or "against Indian culture".[3][4]

Cochin, 2017

In March 2017, Shiva Sena activists caned and abused young couples sitting and talking in Mrine Drive, Kochi. The local police mostly supported the activists without taking any action.[5][6]

Palakkad, 2017

24-year-old Aneesh from Korara Anagada in Agali died as the victim of a vigilante attack in Quilon. His crime was visiting the Azhikkal Beach with a girlfriend.[7]

Trivandrum, 2016

In the state capital of Kerala, the police has formed a division called 'pink police' to keep a watch on dating activities of young people. The police were found abusing young college couples for sitting together and talking without showing an affidavit from the parents for doing so. One boy was taken to the police station and beaten severely for sitting in the Museum Garden with his girlfriend.[8]

Palakkad, 2015

In February 2015, K.M.Parabhaakran of Cherpulasshery was killed by a group of vigilante youth for an alleged immoral activity. Around 15 men attacked Prabhakaran when he was found near the house of a woman. The culprits were not arrested as of 2017.[9]

Cochin, 2014

  • In June 2014, a female theatre artiste and her male colleague were detained in police custody for traveling together at night, which stirred protests against moral policing on social media. Hima Shankar and her friend Sreeram Rameshand were arrested because they were travelling in a two-wheeler late at night. They were not released from the police station even after the parents came and clarified the issue.[10]
  • In July 2013, police arrested a couple from a beach in Alappuzha for suspected “immoral activity” as the woman was not wearing any accessories to suggest that she was married.[11]
  • A month earlier, police were accused of asking money from young couples travelling on motor cycles threatening that they will inform the girl's father.[12]
  • In June 2011, An IT professional, on her way to work at Kochi's IT park, was accosted by a group of drunken men because she was riding pillion on a male colleague's bike. The drunken men argued with her, and then abused and slapped her.[13] Several similar cases have been reported throughout Kerala.
  • In April 2013, an artist from Kochi was harassed by two policewomen when she went for a stroll on Marine Drive with a male friend.[14]

Calicut, 2016

  • In 2016, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kozhikode issued an order prohibiting girl students walking with boy students near the residential quarters of teachers and clerks because the families of the teachers objected to practice of falling in love before marriage.[15]
  • In February 2013, in Vatakara, Kozhikode, a 19-year-old boy died after falling from his two-wheeler. He was trying to escape to group of people chasing him and an under-15 girl with him. The girl was also wounded and was admitted to a hospital.[16]
  • On 23 October 2014, a restaurant in Kozhikode was attacked and vandalised. The attackers claimed that eatery was facilitating immoral activities.[17] The attack came after a local Malayalam-language TV channel broadcast a report claiming that some coffee shops and restaurants in Kozhikode had become centres of “immoral activities”.[18]
  • On 14 July 2015, a Madhyamam Daily journalist and her husband were attacked by a group at her office. They did not accept that they were married. The police arrived before the incident escalated. Later, a Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader was arrested for leading the attack.[19][20]

Malappuram, 2016

Mankada village in Malappuram district attracted the attention of national newspapers in 2016 when a 42-year-old man was beaten to death by his neighbors for visiting his girlfriend in the night.  

Kasaragod, 2016

A Hindu student of Zainab College was stabbed by Muslim vigilante for drinking fruit juice with his Muslim girlfriend during a birthday celebration.[21]

Kollam, 2016

A young man was killed by vigilante people who mistook him for another young man who kept a girl friend. The vigilante people attacked him while his helmet was still on. When they removed the helmet, they understood the mistake. By the time, the young man had already died. his happened at Mundakkal in Kollam district of Kerala.[22]

Kannur, 2012

In June 2012, a gang of men attacked and beat up a pregnant woman sitting alone in a bus shelter in Kannur. The woman's husband had asked her to rest while he went to a nearby ATM since she was heavily pregnant.[23]

In 2012 December, a young man called P.V.AneeshKumar was attacked at Manna junction, Taliparamba by a group of men for the crime of talking with a girl of different community.[24]

Kodiyathur, 2011

In November 2011, Shaheed Bava of Kodiyathur near Calicut was killed by the locals for visiting a woman in the night. He was attacked with wooden pieces and other weapons and there were 51 wounds on his body. Only nine people were convicted for this murder. Most of the culprits escaped from any punishment.[25]

Kottayam, 1997

In 1997, a lawyer named Sabu Thomas from Kerala filed an obscenity case against the author Arundhati Roy, claiming that the 21st chapter of The God of Small Things contains obscene scenes.[26]

Movements against Vigilante

Hug of Love, 2014

A group of students at Maharaja's College, Ernakulam protested against moral policing by conducting an event named 'Hug of Love'. All the participants were later suspended for 10 days by the college authorities for violating the 'code of conduct'.[27]

Another group of students from Government Law college Kozhikode Organized an event called Hug Of Love on 10/12/2014.Authorities took this as an act of indiscipline and served show cause notice to participants

Kiss against Fascism, 2014

A protest against moral policing in Thiruvananthapuram with kisses and hugs under the banner 'kiss against fascism' was conducted in front of the Kairali theatre complex during the 19th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) on 13 December 2014.[28]

Kiss of Love protest, 2014

The Kiss of Love protest was sparked off in October 2014 when Jai Hind TV, a Malayalam news channel owned by the Indian National Congress, telecast an exclusive report on alleged immoral activity at the parking space of Downtown Cafe in Kozhikode.[29] The video showed a young couple kissing and hugging each other.[30] A mob of attackers, who were later identified as belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha vandalized the cafe following the report. Following this, Rahul Pasupalan, a short film maker from Kerala,Resmi R Nair an international model{{citation needed|date=November 2015}} and a group of friends from a Facebook page called 'Freethinkers', started the Facebook page 'Kiss of Love'.[31] Activists from all over Kerala decided to protest against the series of moral policing incidents by organizing a public event at Marine Drive beach on November 2 in Kochi.[32]

The kiss in the street protests which is a bigger protest than kiss of love were held in multiple places in Calicut in following months.

The protest was very popular on social networking sites and news media. The opposing groups allegedly compelled the Facebook authorities block the Kiss of Love page through mass reporting[33] on November 3.[34] The profile pages of all of the administrators were blocked as well. One of the administrators said that the page had 50,000 members at the time of blocking. The page was reinstated later that day and the number of members soon crossed 75,000.[35] Supporters of the campaign have been posting pictures of them kissing on social networking sites.[36]

See also

  • 2014 Kiss of Love protest

References

1. ^{{cite news|title=Moral police runs riot in capital|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100215/jsp/jharkhand/story_12106579.jsp|accessdate=3 December 2014|work=The Telegraph (India)|date=15 February 2010}}
2. ^{{cite news|title=Who will control the vigilantes? Moral policing|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/who-will-control-the-vigilantes-moral-policing/article1334563.ece|accessdate=7 December 2014|work=The Hindu|date=9 September 2008}}
3. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/indias-moral-police-declare-war-on-decadence/2006/11/10/1162661900519.html |title=India's moral police declare war on decadence |newspaper=The Age |date=11 November 2006 |accessdate=11 November 2013}}
4. ^{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/Do-we-need-cops-as-moral-police/articleshow/1621097.cms |title=Do we need cops as moral police? |work= The Times of India |date=5 June 2006 |accessdate=11 November 2013}}
5. ^{{Cite web | url=http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/crime/090317/shiv-sena-activists-play-moral-police-si-suspended-in-kochi.html | title=Shiv Sena activists play moral police, SI suspended in Kochi| date=2017-03-08}}
6. ^{{Cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/shiv-sena-turns-moral-cops-with-police-escort-in-kochi/articleshow/57547821.cms | title='Aided' by cops, Shiv Sena activists rough up couples in Kochi - Times of India}}
7. ^{{Cite web | url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/kerala-suicide-note-of-moral-policing-victim-talks-of-constant-harassment-aneesh-kollam-azheekal-4541223/ | title=Kerala: Suicide note of moral policing victim talks of constant harassment| date=2017-02-24}}
8. ^{{Cite web | url=http://www.mathrubhumi.com/features/social-issues/moral-policing-malayalam-news-1.1408158 | title=തലസ്ഥാനത്ത് ആണിനും പെണ്ണിനും ഒന്നിച്ച് ഇരുന്നുകൂടെ?}}
9. ^{{Cite web | url=http://www.mathrubhumi.com/tv/ReadMore/13049/moral-police-killed-man/E | title=സദാചാര ഗുണ്ടാ ആക്രമണത്തില്‍ മധ്യവയസ്‌കന്‍ കൊല്ലപ്പെട്ടു}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://archive.financialexpress.com/news/in-kerala-cops-on-the-prowl-for-men-and-women-outdoors-together/1276135|title=In Kerala, cops on the prowl for men and women outdoors together|author=Shaju Philip|work=The Financial Express|accessdate=26 November 2014|date=Aug 4, 2014 }}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://archive.financialexpress.com/news/in-kerala-cops-on-the-prowl-for-men-and-women-outdoors-together/1276135|title=In Kerala, cops on the prowl for men and women outdoors together|author=Shaju Philip|work=The Financial Express|accessdate=26 November 2014|date=Aug 4, 2014 }}
12. ^{{cite news|title=Cops go moral, harass actor, pal|url=http://www.deccanchronicle.com/140727/nation-crime/article/cops-go-moral-harass-actor-pal|accessdate=2 November 2014|publisher=Deccan Chronicle|date=27 July 2014}}
13. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/devil-s-own-country-for-women|title=Devil's Own Country for Women|work=OPEN Magazine|accessdate=26 November 2014}}
14. ^{{Cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Moral-police-in-khaki-fleecing-young-couples/articleshow/19624301.cms | title=Moral police in khaki fleecing young couples - Times of India}}
15. ^{{Cite web | url=http://www.azhimukham.com/news/16935/kozhikode-nit-boy-girl-mixed-issue-azhimukham | title=ആണ്‍കുട്ടിയെയും പെണ്‍കുട്ടിയെയും ഒരുമിച്ച് കണ്ടാല്‍ പെണ്‍കുട്ടിക്ക് സസ്‌പെന്‍ഷന്‍| date=2016-11-23}}
16. ^{{cite news|title=Moral policing suspected as boy is killed in chase|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/moral-policing-suspected-as-boy-is-killed-in-chase/article4376964.ece|accessdate=10 August 2015|work=The Hindu|date=4 February 2013}}
17. ^{{cite news|title=‘Moral police’ attack restaurant in Kozhikode|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kozhikode/moral-police-attack-restaurant-in-kozhikode/article6530107.ece|accessdate=10 August 2015|work=The Hindu|date=24 October 2014}}
18. ^{{cite news|title=Congress channel alleges ‘immorality’ at Kerala cafe, BJP workers vandalise it|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/congress-channel-alleges-immorality-at-kerala-cafe-bjp-workers-vandalise-it/|accessdate=10 August 2015|work=The Indian Express|date=25 October 2014}}
19. ^{{cite news|title=CPI(M) local leader arrested for 'moral police' attack on journalist and husband|url=http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/cpim-local-leader-arrested-moral-police-attack-journalist-and-husband-32216|accessdate=10 August 2015|work=The News Minute}}
20. ^{{cite news|title=Bid to Attack Journalist, Husband|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/Bid-to-Attack-JournalistHusband/2015/07/13/article2917258.ece|accessdate=10 August 2015|work=The New Indian Express|date=13 July 2015}}
21. ^{{Cite web | url=http://www.mathrubhumi.com/print-edition/kerala/cherkkala-malayalam-news-1.1525137 | title=സദാചാര പോലീസ് ചമഞ്ഞ് അക്രമം: 10 പേര്‍ക്കെതിരെ വധശ്രമത്തിന് കേസ്}}
22. ^{{Cite web | url=http://www.azhimukham.com/news/14408/goonda-attack-youth-killed-kollam-azhimukham | title=സദാചാര ഗുണ്ടകള്‍ ആളുമാറി മര്‍ദ്ദിച്ച യുവാവ് മരിച്ചു| date=2016-08-21}}
23. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.persecution.in/content/moral-police-attack-pregnant-woman-husband-kerala-kashmir-making-1|title=Moral police' attack pregnant woman, husband in Kerala-A Kashmir in the making|publisher=|accessdate=26 November 2014}}
24. ^http://www.persecution.in/content/moral-police-attack-pregnant-woman-husband-kerala-kashmir-making-1
25. ^{{Cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/nine-get-life-in-shaheed-bava-lynching-case/article6484870.ece | title=Nine get life in Shaheed Bava lynching case| newspaper=The Hindu| date=2014-10-09| last1=Govind| first1=Biju}}
26. ^{{cite news|title=A Novelist Beginning With a Bang|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/29/books/a-novelist-beginning-with-a-bang.html|accessdate=16 December 2014|work=The New York Times|date=29 June 1997}}
27. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/hug-of-love-at-college/article6575486.ece|title='Hug of Love' at college|author=Kochi Bureau|newspaper=The Hindu|accessdate=26 November 2014|date=2014-11-07}}
28. ^{{cite news | title =IFFK gets its share of Kiss of Love| newspaper =The Hindu | date =14 December 2014 | url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/iffk-gets-its-share-of-kiss-of-love/article6689842.ece }}
29. ^{{cite news|last1=Philip|first1=Shaju|title=Congress channel alleges ‘immorality’ at Kerala cafe, BJP workers vandalized the cafe smashing all furniture and fixtures of the coffee shop |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/congress-channel-alleges-immorality-at-kerala-cafe-bjp-workers-vandalise-it/|accessdate=2 November 2014|publisher=The Indian Express|date=October 25, 2014}}
30. ^{{cite news|last1=Babu|first1=Ramesh|title=Kerala: 'Kiss of Love' campaign meets wall of cops and protesters; fizzles out|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/kerala-organisers-to-go-ahead-with-kiss-of-love-today/article1-1281587.aspx|accessdate=2 November 2014|publisher=Hindustan Times|date=2 November 2014}}
31. ^{{cite news | url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/kochi-youths-plan-kiss-day-after-cafe-vandalism/ | title=Kochi youths plan ‘kiss day’ after cafe vandalism | publisher=The Indian Express | accessdate=19 Nov 2014 | date=29 Oct 2014 }}
32. ^{{cite news|last1=Varghese|first1=Johnley|title=Kerala Gets Ready for its First Public Kissing Event, Backlash Feared|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/kerala-gets-ready-its-first-public-kissing-event-backlash-feared-612861|accessdate=2 November 2014|publisher=International Business Times|date=November 2, 2014}}
33. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/help/263149623790594/|title=Report a Violation - Facebook Help Center - Facebook|publisher=|accessdate=26 November 2014}}
34. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.deccanchronicle.com/141104/nation-current-affairs/article/kiss-love-facebook-page-blocked-activated-again|title=Kiss of Love Facebook page blocked, activated again|work=Deccan Chronicle|accessdate=26 November 2014|date=2014-11-04}}
35. ^{{cite news|last1=S.R.|first1=Praveen|title=Kiss of Love’ page blocked, reinstated|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/kiss-of-love-page-blocked-reinstated/article6562521.ece|accessdate=6 November 2014|agency=4 November 2014|publisher=The Hindu}}
36. ^{{cite news|last1=K.S.|first1=Sudhi|title=Kiss of Love protests: Taking matters, personally|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/kiss-of-love-prtotests-taking-matters-personally/article6563143.ece|accessdate=6 November 2014|publisher=The Hindu|date=4 November 2014}}

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