SHILLONG: Thma-U-Rangli-Juki (TUR), a progressive people’s organisation, will hold a street corner meeting on the draconian Meghalaya Preventive Detention Act (MPDA) and Meghalaya Maintenance of Public Order (MMPO) Act to observe International Human Rights Day on December 10 at Khyndai Lad at 2 PM.
According to TUR, this will kick-off the State-wide campaign against attacks on people’s right to protest and expose the blatant misuse of these black laws by a corrupt and authoritarian State Government.
The purpose of these laws is to silence any form of dissent and the government’s constant illegal infringement on the civil and political liberties of the people of the State, TUR said, while urging citizens to participate in the meeting and share their views and experiences.
