From: Feroze Mithiborwala <feroze.moses...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:44 AM
Subject: [Citizen-Mumbai] Press Conference against illegal arrest - Press
Club, 21st July, 4.30pm
Citizens' Initiative for Peace
To
The City Editor,
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*SUB:* PRESS CONFERENCE
Dear Sir / Madam
The Citizens' Initiative for Peace (CIP) has organised a press conference
on Tuesday, July 21, 2009, at 4.30 P.M. at the Press Club (next to Azad
Maidan) to highlight the issue of grossly undemocratic arrest and detention
of Feroze Mithiborwala, Kishor Jagtap and Aslam Ghazi.
They were picked up by the Mumbai Police on Friday evening without
indicating any ground whatever and kept in respective police stations for
over 20 hours. Their arrests are, by all appearance, linked to the visit of
the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the city - in an apparent bid
to scuttle any possible protests.
The press conference will be addressed by Adv. Gayatri Singh. She had
visited the MIDC police station for the legal defence of Feroze Mithiborwala
and Kishor Jagtap and effect their early release. She will explain ithe
legal dimensions of these "preventive arrests", without any specific charge,
in the broader context of Indian legal regime. It will also be addressed by
Feroze Mithiborwala, Kishor Jagtap and Aslam Ghazi. They will narrate their
own experiences.
Veteran Journalist and *Loksatta* Editor *Shri *Kumar Ketkar would speak on
the implications of such arrests on India's democratic credentials and
prospects.Customary question and answer session would follow.
Please depute your reporter and photographer to cover the event and oblige.
Regards,
Dolphy D'souza Jatin Desai Sukla Sen
(9322255812)
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