Disha Ravi is a graduate from Mount Carmel College and a young Climate Activist from Bangalore, India.
She is one of the founders of Fridays For Future, a Friday school on preventing climate changes from political leaders.
She has written some articles and editorials regarding the International youth climate. In September 2020 she was featured in Vogue magazine along with the 3 global activists who work against Environmental racism.
In March 2020, she was opposing the environmental impact assessment while she was part of the FF India email advocacy campaign. After which her website was blocked. She reported that she lives in a country where “Only a government that puts profit over people would consider asking for clean air, clean water and a liveable planet, an act of terrorism.”
In Sept 2020, due to heavy rains and floods, some places were damaged and she was fighting for those people whose houses were damaged.
During an interview with Gayle Kimball. Disha said, “In India, protests are a part of life since the Indian freedom struggle was rooted in peaceful protests. There are a lot of protests on humanitarian issues and religious issues and protests are very ingrained in Indian society. Social media has helped in recent days.”
During the first week of February Greta Thunberg tweeted supporting Indian farmers and also linked the toolkit which stated by the people on grounds in India. And some people filed a complaint regarding the post.
The Delhi police arrested Disha on 14th February from Bangalore for sharing the toolkit with Greta Thunberg the environmental activist.
Delhi Police has taken cognizance of a 'Toolkit Document' found on a social media platform that predates and indicates a copycat execution of a conspiracy behind the 26Jan violence. The call was to wage economic, social, cultural and regional war against India.
— #DilKiPolice Delhi Police (@DelhiPolice) February 4, 2021
In this process,they all collaborated with pro Khalistani Poetic Justice Foundation to spread disaffection against the Indian State. She was the one who shared the Toolkit Doc with Greta Thunberg. @HMOIndia @LtGovDelhi @CPDelhi
— #DilKiPolice Delhi Police (@DelhiPolice) February 14, 2021
Later, she asked Greta to remove the main Doc after its incriminating details accidentally got into public domain. This is many times more than the 2 lines editing that she claims.@PMOIndia @HMOIndia @LtGovDelhi @CPDelhi
— #DilKiPolice Delhi Police (@DelhiPolice) February 14, 2021
It was reported that the toolkit’s main aim was to provide incorrect information about the government. After the 26th Jan violence, there was a lot of misleading content spread across social media. A google document named Toolkit was shared all over Twitter. This was created by the Khalistan group.
There was a strike created using hashtags on social media and the government has started investigating this.
Disha is under police custody for Criminal conspiracy, sedition, and promoting enmity. The police have also notified that there are no bail warranties against her partners Shantanu and Nikita Jacob.
Arrest of 21 yr old Disha Ravi is an unprecedented attack on Democracy. Supporting our farmers is not a crime.
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) February 15, 2021
The bravado of Narendra Modi. Arresting a 21 year old climate change activist for volunteering in the farmers protest. Disha Ravi has been incarcerated for expressing solidarity with the farmers. Is the world watching ? pic.twitter.com/IURQJXKpoM
— Rana Ayyub (@RanaAyyub) February 14, 2021
The activist has been booked under the charges of sedition, criminal conspiracy, and promoting enmity, and support for her has been pouring in from all directions.
The Delhi Police has further released non-bailable warrants against activists Nikita Jacob and Shantanu, in connection with an apparent ‘tweetstorm’ before the 26 January protests. The Delhi police have further tweeted thrice with regard to this tweet. Stating there is a spy against India and Indian security needs to be alert.
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