On 13 June 2013, 13 women human rights defenders in West Bengal were arbitrarily arrested. The activists assembled bearing a few placards in their hands and clarified their intention to the police personnel guarding the residence of the Chief Minister Ms. Mamata Bannerjee, that they wished to submit memoranda on recent incidents of gang rapes on two students at Barasat and Krishnaganj, Nadia in West Bengal. The 13 activists wanted to draw personal attention of the Chief Minister but instead of making the arrangements for the same and receiving the memoranda, the posted police authority arrested the 13 women activists. The women arrested were: Ms. Anuradha Kapoor, Ms. Swapna, Ms. Kakoli Bhattacharya, Ms. Anchita Ghatak, Ms. Shyamali Das, Ms. Ratnaboli Roy, Ms. Sharmistha Dutta Gupta, Ms. Shreya Sanghari, Ms. Madhura Chakroborty, Ms. Shreya Chakroborty, Ms. Sudeshna Basu and Ms. Aditi Basu. All 13 are member of a Kolkata based women's network Maitree. On 10 June, the activists had also tried to hand over the same at Writers Buildings, when the Chief Minister refused to meet the delegation. 04/07/2013: JAL sent to India by the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression; the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders; the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences; and the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice. .