Congratulations to all!! In solidarity, manisha sethi (on behalf of Jamia teachers' solidarity association )
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Madhuresh Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > *NAPM Welcomes Supreme Court Granting Bail to Dr. Binayak Sen * > > *New Delhi, April 15 :* The news that Dr. Binayak Sen has been granted > bail by the Supreme Court and sedition charges dropped has brought cheers to > many of us who have campaigned for his release all this while across the > world. *NAPM welcomes this and hope the case would be finally quashed > since from beginning, as established, the case has too many loop holes. It > has only been due to the persistence of the Chattisgarh government that Dr. > **Sen** has been kept in jail all this long.* > > Dr. Sen had filed a petition in the Chhattisgarh high court on January 6, > challenging a district and sessions court order that had convicted him, on > December 24 last year, on various charges, including sedition, and had > sentenced him to life imprisonment. Dr. Sen was arrested in Chhattisgarh > in 2007 and was granted bail two years later by Supreme Court. > > *Supreme Court by its order has restored **the faith in the due process of > law for many in this country once again.* The observation by the Court > that mere possession of Naxal literature does not make a person a Naxalite, > guilty of sedition, as one who possesses Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography can > not call himself a Gandhian, hopefully will provide relief to many of the > human rights activists, journalists, adivasis and others lodged in > different jails across the country under UAPA, CSPSA, MCOCA and other > draconian acts. > > *We do hope that this will also deter Chattisgarh government from further > mobilising attacks on the journalists and rights activists who have tried to > reach out to the adivasis in Bastar and Dantewada and not brand them as > 'Maoists' and stop perpetrating violence on dalits and adivasis in the > name of Operation Green Hunt.* > > Release of Dr. Binayak Sen will give a boost to our struggle for defending > the rights of the political prisoners and restoring justice and peace in > Chattisgarh. > > Zindabaad ! > > *Aruna Roy, Medha Patkar, Sandeep Pandey, Ulka Mahajan, **Gabriele > Dietrich, Sister Celia, **Ramakrishna Raju, Maj. Gen (Retd) Sudhir > Vombatkere, Roma, **Prafulla Samantara, Anand Mazgaonkar, Suniti S R, > Arundhati Dhuru, Rajendra Ravi, Bhupendera Singh Rawat, Mukta Srivastava, > Madhuresh Kumar* > > -- > ================== > National Alliance of Peoples' Movements (NAPM) > C/O 6/6 (Basement), Jangpura B, Mathura Road, New Delhi 110 014 > Mobile +91 9818 905316 | 011 2624 1167 > email : [email protected] | [email protected] > Web : www.napm-india.org > > Read NAPM's News magazine, Movement of India @ > http://issuu.com/MovementOfIndia > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "humanrights movement" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
