... The Indigenous Rights and Protected Areas Initiative of the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Programme (IPLP) at the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law condemned Mr. Doley’s arrest. The activist, who belongs to the Mishing community, is a member of IPLP’s Advisory Council and the convenor of the Greater Kaziranga Land and Human Rights Protection Committee.

... “We call for his immediate and unconditional release and for the withdrawal of all charges arising from the peaceful exercise of his rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, and to defend the collective rights of indigenous peoples,” the IPLP members, mostly comprising academics, said in a statement.

... According to the Indigenous People’s Rights International, the Asia Indigenous People’s Pact, and India-based indigenous organisations, Mr. Doley was arrested in connection with a criminal case registered at Bokakhat police station on June 29. Bokakhat, in Golaghat district... [He] was reportedly arrested without being shown an arrest warrant. His mobile phone was seized, and he was allegedly denied contact with supporters before being transferred from the Dispur police station... into the custody of the Bokakhat police.

... Mr. Doley and his associates have been leading a movement of Adivasi and indigenous farming families opposing the proposed luxury hotel project at Ingle Pathar on the fringes of the national park, famed for its one-horned rhinoceroses, and the alleged reclassification and allocation of community grazing and farmlands to the ATDC for that project.