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Civil rights activists condemn ‘vindictive actions’ against Teesta Setalvad Submitted by admin4 <http://twocircles.net/user/admin4> on 7 January 2014 - 4:38pm *By TCN News,* New Delhi: Civil rights activists have condemned the vindictive actions’ against human rights activist Teesta Setalvad secretary of Citizen's for Justice and Peace and her husband Javed Anand. “In the latest round of vindictive actions against human rights defender Teesta Setalvad secretary of Citizen's for Justice and Peace the Gujarat police Crime Branch has registered a false FIR on malicious grounds of cheating etc. This time the vindictiveness of the Gujarat police has extended to also implicating two Survivors Salimbhai Sandhi who lost five family members including his son Mohammed and Firoz Gulzar Pathan who also lost four from his family in the vicious attack on Gulberg Society on 28.2.2002. Javed Anand also a human rights defender has also been roped in as a co-accused in this malicious and motivated case,” a joint statement said. The timing of the FIR is significant given the fact that for a full eleven months after CJP and Sabrang had given satisfactory explanations to the Crime Branch investigations had been dropped. In a written complaint to the Crime Branch, Ahmedabad police, the office bearers of Gulberg Society had accused complainant Feroze Khan of forging the letterhead of the society. A former employee of CJP, Rais Khan has been at the root of this and 2 other false criminal complaints against Teesta Setalvad. In both he has been aggressively aided by the Gujarat police. The sudden filing of this FIR soon after the Ahmedabad Magistrate's acceptance of the SIT report is not without significance. The timing of this FIR replete with a threat of arrest is seen by us as efforts to prevent prompt filing of appeal in the Zakia Jafri case against Narendra Modi and 59 others. These activists see the FIR as a “deliberate campaign to vilify the efforts to procure justice for the victims of the carnage of 2002 and strongly condemn the mala fide attempts to embroil human rights activists like Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand in false cases and demand an immediate withdrawal of these cases.” They have extended their solidarity to the struggle for the rights of the 2002 victims and support to Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand. *The joint statement was signed by following persons:* Achin Vanaik, Academics Aditi Mangaldas, Artist Aamir, ANHAD Ahmed Sohaib, Academics/JTSA Ambarien Alqadr, Academics/JTSA Asad, Activist JSSF Anuradha Bhasin Jmawal, Senior Journalist Annie Raja, NFIW Anuradha Chenoy, Academics Apoorvanand, Academics Anwar khalil, Advocate Arshad Ajmal, Activist Abha Bhaiya, Azam Khan, Hyderabad Bhasha, Senior Journalist Bhavna Sharma, Anhad Bakhtiyar Shiekh, Law Gradute Colin Gonsalves, Human Rights Law Network Cranti, Ahmedabad Darpana Academy Eisar, Advocate Gulrez kamal Warsi Harsh Dobhal, Journalist Harsh Kapoor, South Asian Citizens Web Indu Prakash Singh, CityMakers Rights Defender Ikshula Arora, JSSF Jaya Mehta, Economist/Sandarbh Kendra Indore Jayshree Joshi Eashwar Kamal Mitra Chenoy, Academics Kavita Srivastava, PUCL KM Shrimali, Historian KN Panikkar, Historian Kumar Sundaram, Anti Nuclear Activist Manisha Sethi, Academics/JTSA Mansi Sharma, Activist Manan Trivedi, Anhad Mohammad Arif, AISF Mohd Shariq, Advocate Nabanipa Bhattacharjee, Academics/JTSA Nandita Das, Actor/Producer Navaid Hameed, MOMIEN ND Pancholi, PUCL Noorjehan Safia Neyaz, BMMA Preetika Nanda JSSF Praful Bidwai, Writer/Activist Purwa Bharadwaj, Activist Ram Puniyani, Writer/Activist Rupesh, Cultural Activist/Paigham-e-Mohabbat Sanghamitra Misra, Academics/JTSA Sanjay Kapoor, Senior Editor Sanjiv Bhatt, IPS Sohail Hashmi, Filmmaker/Writer Satya Sivaraman, Journalist Shabnam Hashmi, Social Activist/Anhad Sheba George, Sahrwaru Shahid Ali, Advocate Surya Gridhyal JSSF Saiyed Danish JSSF Shweta Sanjiv Bhatt, Gujarat Suman Bhattacharyya, Kolkata Sukumar Muralidharan, Senior Journalist Sunil Sagar, Advocate Shoeb Shakil, Advocate Tanweer Fazal, Academics/JTSA Tanveer Husain khan, ANHAD Tajally Shehreyar JSSF Tanveer Nasrin, Kolkata Umar Daraj, Advocate Vineet Tiwari, General Secretary, PWA Indore Vinod Kumar, Cultural Activist/Paigham-e-Mohabbat Wilfred D Costa, INSAF Zakia Soman, BMMA -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
