A documentary film Then They Came for Me directed by rights activist and documentary film-maker Gopal Menon and produced by the Solidarity Youth Movement will be premiered in the city on Wednesday.
Noted civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad will release the film about the cases and lives of people who had been arrested from Kerala under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), said office-bearers of the youth movement in a press meet here on Tuesday.
The screening at K.P. Kesava Menon Hall in the city at 5 p.m. will be followed by a discussion. Political leaders, cultural activists, and thinkers, including K.E.N. Kunhammed, G.P. Ramachandran, A. Vasu, Ummer Tharamel, P. Koya, Ajay Shekhar, and Deedi Damodaran, among others will speak on the occasion.
The film will throw light on the ‘shocking’ incidents of misuse of acts such as UAPA against innocent members of marginalised sections, including Dalits and Muslims to silence and stop them from protesting against the injustices, said T. Muhammed Velam, State president of the movement.
“It is also a resistance against the ongoing moves from the government to torture and silence the young and reacting minds in the pretext of crackdown on Maoists,” he said.
