Hunger Strike Against Death Penalty Share<http://www.facebook.com/ajax/sharer/?s=7&appid=2344061033&p[]=249852501721420>· Public event
Time 29 August * ** **11:00** - ** **23:30* ------------------------------ *Location* *Jantar Mantar, Delhi* ------------------------------ *Created by:* *Karthick Rm* <http://undefined/KarthickRM> ------------------------------ *More info* *We request Progressive Sections to extend their support to the INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE conducted by Students Against Death Penalty @ Jantar Mantar, 29th August. The campaign has been launched on an urgent basis to demand revocation of the hanging orders of Perarivalan, Murugan and Santhan, 3 individuals who have been accused of involvement in the 'Rajiv Assassination' case. By the order, they are meant to be hanged on September* * 9th. It is necessary to assemble in large numbers to prevent this gross injustice.* *--------* *Preparations have begun at the Vellore Central Prison to hang– Sriharan (alias) Murugan, T. Suthendraraja (alias) Santhan and G. Perarivalan (alais) Arivu. The mercy petition, that was filed 11 years before, was rejected on 11th August 2011 by the President of India. Soon after the rejection of the clemency petition, the execution order of the three in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case has come and communicated to the Vellore jail authorities. The date decided by the Vellore jail authorities is September 9, 2011 morning. * *Perarivalan was sentenced in 1999, confirmed by the Supreme Court in the year 2000, re-confirmed by the Ministry of Home Affairs in 2005, called back for review in February 2011 and again confirmed in March this year, all this while, Perarivalan has been on the death row. Though the Supreme Court has clearly held that the TADA act cannot apply to the Rajiv Gandhi murder case, it is the set of the confessional statements recorded under TADA that has been the mainstay of the case. Perarivalan in his statement has specifically mentioned how he was tortured and pressures to sign the confession. * *Perarivalan had been in jail for the last 20 years for no fault of his. He has been awarded the death sentence for what? - for purchasing toy batteries! In this recent book, ‘An Appeal from Death Row (Rajiv Murder Case — The Truth Speaks)’ narrates the incidents, forced confession, third degree tortures, the handling of the case and Perarivalan's letters, and appeals for justice. The first sentence of his letter of appeal is, ‘I, A.G.Perarivalan, have been falsely implicated in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and am imprisoned as a death row inmate’. Any layperson can identify that he is an innocent. In fact, the senior CBI officer Mr. Ragothaman has quoted in his book, “Rajiv’s Assassination Case” and on interview that the “puzzle behind the assembler of the Belt-Bomb is still unresolved.” * *Arputham Ammal, A.G.Perarivalan's Mother is sitting on fast outside the Vellore Jail to demand the commutation of death sentence to life imprisonment. Lakhs of people are protesting outside the jail in Chennai. Kuyildasan, father of Perarivalan making an appeal to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa at Jolarpettai in Vellore district after participating in a fast, Kuyildasan said if his son was not released, he along with his family members, would commit suicide before the Vellore Central Prison. "We will commit suicide in front of the prison before my son is hanged", he said, adding Perarivalan was innocent and had not committed any offence. * *“Death Penalty is nothing but a judicially sanctioned murder, executed on a planned date and time” says Former Justice of Supreme Court V.R.Krishna Iyer. As many as 132 countries have abolished capital punishment, no matter how awful the crime or how savage the criminal. But India despite priding itself on a highly evolved ‘rule of law’ system has steadfastly stick to the punishment. Death penalty in India largely figured in British Indian Penal System along with transportation for life-kala pani. Post-1947 India retained the majority of legal statutes put in place by its colonial master. This included the IPC, 1860 and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898. India follows the principle of the ‘rarest of the rare cases’ and claims to be complying with the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) where death penalty is abolished. The doctrine of ‘rarest of rare’ case is superfluous as it is vague. There is no uniform guideline for its application. The quantum of punishment varies according to the nature i.e; caste, class of a judge (subjective satisfaction) in awarding ‘death’ or ‘life’. But indeed, in world history of capital punishments, Perarivalan’s case is rare because if he is executed, it will be because of the ‘crime’ of the purchase of a mere battery. If this is allowed to happen, one can only imagine the kind of precedent it would set in this country… * *ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY !* -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the predecessors of Hitler did, else how is it that Germany always had the lists of Jewish names even prior to the arrival of the Nazis? The Nazis got these lists with the help of IBM which was in the 'census' business that included racial census that entailed not only count the Jews but also identifying them. At the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, there is an exhibit of an IBM Hollerith D-11 card sorting machine that was responsible for organising the census of 1933 that first identified the Jews.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902&ap=1*< http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902&ap=1> -- 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.
