“Madhya Pradesh: Medha Patkar, 5 others detained during their fast against Sardar Sarovar Dam project”, 7 Aug 2017

Activist and founder of the Narmada Bachao Andolan Medha Patkar was taken to a hospital in Indore…soon after she was detained in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district while protesting against the Sardar Sarovar Dam. Five others were also taken into custody as their hunger strike demanding rehabilitation of those displaced by the project entered its 12th day…

Nearly 2,000 police officers were deployed at the protest site. They allegedly used force against the agitators, with some even claiming that the police had manhandled a few women protestors when they tried to stop Patkar from being detained. The police allegedly broke the stage and tents set up as well as chairs. It claimed that the police came armed with batons with pins on them to control the protests.

Patkar and 11 others began their hunger strike in Dhar’s Chikalda village on July 27…

“There was no attempt to talk to the protestors sitting on fast against the illegal and unjust drowning, and forceful eviction of more than 40,000 families in Narmada Valley residing there without complete and just rehabilitation,” [the organisation Narmada Bachao Andolan] said in a statement…