At Gauri Lankesh's death anniversary event, participants sport badges that read 'me too urban Naxal'

The protest against the arrest of five activists—prominent Telugu poet Varavara Rao, activists Vernon Gonzalves and Arun Farreira, trade union activist Sudha Bhardwaj and civil liberties activist Gautam Navalakha—reverberated at an event organised to mark the first death anniversary of activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh.

Gauri Memorial Trust and her supporters are organising a series of events to mark the first anniversary.

The participants of one such event on Wednesday spotted badges which read 'me too urban Naxal'. The badges also had a tagline—promoting peace, promoting nonviolence.

Following the arrest of the activist, the hashtag #MeTooUrbanNaxal was trending on twitter with thousands of tweets, retweets and likes. The hashtag was created in response to a tweet by film maker Vivek Agnihotri, who is also author of a book titled 'Urban Naxals: The Making of Buddha in a Traffic Jam'.

A number of activists and leaders, including Umar Khalid, Jignesh Mevani, Prakash Raj and Shehla Rashid, remembered the slain journalist on the occasion of her death anniversary.

#RememberGowri. .. when you silence a voice .. it will only grow louder.. and as these voices continue to fight for inclusive.. democratic .. human INDIA .. how many more can you silence #justasking, tweetd Prakash Raj.

Jignesh Mevani posted a photo with Gauri Lankesh on his twitter page.

One year later, I don't feel Gauri's loss. I feel that she's still around. Justice loving people have kept her memory alive. She's everywhere. Right-wing terrorists have only managed to kill her physically. Her kindness, intellect and beauty is all around us. #GauriLankesh, tweeted Shehla Rashid.

A fierce critic of the fundamentalism and communal politics and known for her strong anti-Hindutva views, Gauri Lankesh, who used to run a tabloid, was shot dead on the night of September 5, 2017, from a close range in front of her Rajarajeshwari Nagar house in Bengaluru around 8 pm. Some of the people arrested in the case are allegedly linked to Hindu rightwing groups.

Meanwhile, her sister Kavitha expressed her happiness over the progress made by the Karnataka Special Investigation Team (SIT).

The SIT has so far arrested 12 people and some of them were allegedly linked to Sanatan Sanstha and its allied outfit Hindu Janajagruti Samiti.

Kavitha said the SIT had not only made arrests, but also guided the CBI and other agencies to nab killers of rationalists Govind Pansare, Dabholkar and Kalburgi.

"I am very happy with the SIT considering that CBI and other agencies had not done anything from Maharashtra. Now all those linkages are coming out, from Gauri to Pansare to Dabholkar, and Kalburgi. CBI and other agencies are taking the help of SIT," she added.