Irom Sharmila, the Iron Lady of Manipur as she is often called, has been on a fast for the last ten years protesting against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act that is in place in parts of Manipur and the north east and gives the Army and the paramilitary forces the power to shoot or arrest on mere suspicion. The Indian state has kept her alive on a cocktail of...
03:42 PM, Aug 24, 2011
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12:01 AM, Jun 17, 2011
New Delhi: When it comes to fasts and dharnas, popularity clearly matters. Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare hog the public limelight and the Centre's attention but a woman who has been on a fast in Manipur against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act has been ignored for ten years now. The high profile fasts of activists in Delhi and the silent 10-year long fast of Irom Sharmila - Hazare and...
09:11 PM, Jun 10, 2011
New Delhi: Irom Sharmila Chanu and Anna Hazare have one thing in common " the ability to fast indefinitely for what they perceive is right. But the similarities end there. She has been on a political fast for 11 years but her silent resilience moves you when you realize the sheer magnitude of what she is single-handedly trying to achieve. Far from the glare of studio lights of television channels...
06:40 PM, Apr 20, 2011
New Delhi: Irom Sharmila's struggle to get the Armed Forces Special Act (AFSPA) out from her state of Manipur has entered its tenth year on Tuesday. The Iron Lady of Manipur as she is often called has been on a fast for the last ten years protesting against the AFSPA that is in place in parts of Manipur and the north east and gives the Army and the paramilitary forces...
12:04 AM, Nov 03, 2010
Imphal: Human rights activist Irom Sharmila, jailed since 2000 for resorting to a hunger strike against alleged rights violations by the security forces in Manipur, was once again arrested by police on charges of attempted suicide. The activist continued her refusal to eat a single morsel of food. Sharmila, who earned the sobriquet Iron Lady of Manipur and is now in her 10th year of judicial custody, was arrested on...
02:02 PM, Mar 11, 2010
Imphal: Human rights activist Irom Sharmila, jailed since 2000 for resorting to a hunger strike against alleged rights violations by the security forces in Manipur, was once again arrested by police on charges of attempted suicide. The activist continued her refusal to eat a single morsel of food. Sharmila, who earned the sobriquet Iron Lady of Manipur and is now in her 10th year of judicial custody, was arrested on...
12:45 PM, Mar 11, 2010
New Delhi: Human rights activist Irom Sharmila was re-arrested today and produced before a chief judicial magistrate in Imphal. Manipur's 'Iron Lady' was released from yet another year of detention on Saturday. Irom Sharmila had begun her protest against the Malom massacre of 2000 in which 10 civilians were gunned down by security forces. Sharmila has been on a fast-unto-death for eight years, demanding repeal of the controversial Armed Forces...
06:18 PM, Mar 09, 2009
Imphal: Irom Sharmila Chanu " the iron lady of Manipur who has been fasting for over six years protesting against the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act " was arrested by the police soon after her arrival in Imphal from Delhi. After a five-month-long protest in Delhi, Sharmila returned here to resume her fast. Sharmila, who started her fast to protest against the controversial AFSPA in year 2000, believes her...
07:47 AM, Mar 05, 2007
New Delhi: Irom Sharmila Chanu's story is magnetic in its moral force, yet not violent or binding. It's heroic, yet rooted. It's self-sacrificing. Irom's struggle talks about human life when it's robbed one of its most essential commodity -dignity. Irom hasn't eaten a morsel of food or taken a drop of water for the past six years. Synonymous with the agitation against the Armed Forced Special Powers Act (AFSPA), Irom...
11:41 PM, Feb 02, 2007
CNN-IBN travels to Manipur where Irom Sharmila has been on a fast for the past six years to protest against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in the state. She hasn't eaten or had a drop of water since then. Anubha Bhonsle travels to Manipur to gauge the extent of pain and trauma in the state. ...
01:15 PM, Feb 02, 2007
New Delhi: A strong plea for repealing the Armed Forces Special Powers Act was made by NCP member P A Sangma and several others in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday which appealed to Irom Chanu Sharmila from Manipur to end her hunger strike. Raising the issue, P A Sangma (NCP) said that the condition of Sharmila, who has been on a hunger strike for last six years demanding that the...
07:10 PM, Dec 12, 2006
Imphal: Manipuri activist Irom Sharmila Chanu, who has been on a fast for the past six years to oppose the draconian Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act in the northeastern state, completed six years of her protest on Thursday. Official reports on Friday said Sharmila had began her fast on November 2, 2000 after an Assam Rifles personnel shot dead 10 persons in a bus depot at Malom near Imphal airport....
03:57 PM, Nov 03, 2006
New Delhi: Many Manipuris want the Armed Forces' (Special Powers) Act scrapped and now a government-appointed committee too has suggested that the stringent provisions of the Act must go. The Act gives sweeping powers to the Army and allows it to make arrests and searches without warrant. A 147-page report of the Justice BP Jeevan Reddy Committee - a copy of which is now with CNN-IBN - clearly advises the...
04:06 PM, Oct 25, 2006
New Delhi: A Manipuri activist, Jhonson Slangbam, says the people of India have not seen the real picture of what is happening in Manipur. There is growing rage against the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, which is seen as a draconian act in the entire state of Manipur. The callousness of the Government towards the issue forced a young woman, Irom Sharmila, to wage a non-violent crusade against the act....
09:02 AM, Oct 22, 2006
Imphal: A strike to protest human rights abuses by security forces greeted President A P J Kalam when he visited Manipur on Monday. Shops, businesses and schools were closed in Imphal in protest against a law which gives sweeping powers to security forces to catch and kill suspected separatist rebels. "Since the democratic voices of the people of Manipur are not honoured by the Government of India, so a visit...
06:07 PM, Oct 16, 2006
New Delhi: Rights activists from Manipur on Monday released to the media what they claimed was the report of the Justice Jeevan Reddy Committee on a controversial anti-terror law that has sparked widespread protests in the state. The report on the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 they claimed, had recommended the law should be repealed. The move by the Apunba Lup, a grouping of Manipuri socio-political organisations, came in...
04:37 PM, Oct 09, 2006
New Delhi: Try staying without food for a day or two. Find it tough? Social activist Irom Sharmila " the iron lady of Manipur " has been on a fast for nearly six years now. Sharmila has been trying to revoke the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Manipur after security forces in Malom in Manipur gunned down 10 innocent bystanders near the Imphal Airport on November 2, 2000. Six...
08:30 AM, Oct 06, 2006
