A very nice statement
We are in solidarity with the struggle.
DYFI condemns the victimisation of the famous human rights activist Teesta
Setalwad and Javed Anand by the Government of fascist forces and requests all
to join the protest meeting in Mumbai on 16th July at 5.30pm at Dadar East.
Please join in large numbers.
Hope you all will join.
GreetingsPreethy Sekhar
From: ram puniyani <[email protected]>
To: ram puniyani <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 6:34 AM
Subject: [humanrights-movement:7880] CBI Raid on Teesta Setalvad's Office
Condemned
Press Statement14 July 2015
PADS strongly condemns the CBI raids on 14 July 2015 at the premises ofsocial
activist Teesta Setalvad, her husband Javed Anand, Gulam MohammedPeshimam and
office of Sabrang Communications and Publishing inMumbai. These raids are
undertaken for purely vindictive reasons given theassurances of complete
cooperation and submission of thousands of pages ofdocuments to the CBI. It is
by now an open secret that activists working forjustice and truth with regard
to the pogrom called ‘Gujarat Riots’ have earnedthe hatred and animosity of the
Modi government; which does not hesitate toemploy official state power to
indulge in a witch-hunt.
Setalvad and Anand set up Sabrang Communications and began
publishingCommunalism Combat in 1993, and not after 2002. It was this company
thatpublished the Justice Srikrishna Commission Report on the Mumbaicommunal
riots of 1992-1993 at a time when the state government would notmake it
available to the public. The state not only fails in its constitutional dutyto
protect all citizens from unlawful deprivation of life and liberty under
Article21, but hounds and intimidates all those who seek to uphold human rights
anddemocratic values.It may also be noted that a senior Public Prosecutor,
Rohini Salian, hasaccused the NIA of showing a bias in favour of certain
persons accused ofterrorist crimes. None other than the respected Julio
Rebeiro, retired PoliceCommissioner of Punjab, has asked the public to take
serious note of what MsSalian has alleged.
Furthermore, a Gujarat special judge, Ms Jyotsna Yagnik,stated in May this year
that she has received 22 threats since retirement, onaccount of her role in
convicting those responsible for the Naroda Patiyamassacre in 2002. Her
security cover was not enhanced, but scaled down. Itis also noteworthy that the
final hearings in the Zakia Jafri Criminal RevisionApplication are due to begin
on July 27. Mrs Jafri seeks to make top-levelpoliticians, including the then
Gujarat chief minister, and top-level policemen,including the present
Commissioner of Police, Shivanand Jha, former joint CP,Crime Branch, AK Sharma
(now in the CBI ) answerable for criminal andadministrative culpability for
their role in 2002.Seen together, in their entirety, the above facts are a
cause for grave concernto all Indian citizens.
They portend nothing less than an undeclaredEmergency. Lovers of democracy
should resist the ruthless campaign ofintimidation unleashed against Sabrang
Communications. PADS demandsthat the Union Government abandon its hostile and
vindictive stance towardshuman rights defenders and concentrate on upholding
the rule of law andproviding justice to innocent Indian citizens who have
fallen victim tobloodthirsty communal politics.
Email: [email protected] contact: Srinivas Rao 09393875195
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