Month: August 2011

We the following organisations and concerned individuals hereby express the following concerns:

We are shocked at the way Abdul Nasser Ma’dani, his family and supporters have been harassed for a long period by the Karnataka government. Earlier Ma’dani, falsely accused in the Coimbatore blast case, was in jail for more than nine years after which the judge felt he was innocent. This itself is a statement on the way the executive machinery, judiciary and legislature works in this country. If this had happened in any other country, he would have been legally provided compensation for the human rights violation he suffered due to his wrong arrest under fabricated charges. read more

Dear Comrades
 
A Joint Picket (Protest) was held in Colombo on 2nd August to Protest the  brutal  assault of Gnana Sundaram Kuganadan News Editor of Uthayan Paper Published from Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
 
Gnana Sundaram, who is sixty years old, senior and respected Journalist of Sri Lanka is known for his fearless exposé’s of the Sinhala Buddhist majoritarian communalism and has been a forthright critique of Mahinda’s regime. Uthayan in which Gnana Sundaram  is the News editor has been attacked umpteen times by the hired thugs of the ruling regime over the years.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uthayan please read for details about the attacks on Uthayan)
 
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