Archive for June, 2008
India: Serious concerns over fair trial : Amnesty International Australia
Amnesty International Australia
Published on 27/06/2008
Delay in the trial process of jailed and award-winning human rights defender Dr. Binayak Sen followed by arrest of T.G. Ajay, also a human rights defender who attended his trial heightens serious doubts about Dr. Sen getting a fair trial at a Raipur district court in India, Amnesty International said on [...]
Bullet can’t be tackled with bullet: Sandeep Pandey(Interview)
By Sujeet Kumar
Raipur, June 27 (IANS) Slamming the government-backed Salwa Judum civil militia movement against Maoists in Chhattisgarh, social activist and Magsaysay award winner Sandeep Pandey says “the bullet can never be tackled with the bullet”. “Violence is not the reply to violence. The Maoist problem was a product of the decades-old government neglect of [...]
Karnataka: Groups seek release of Binayak Sen
The Hindu
Karnataka – Mysore
Special Correspondent
MYSORE: Activists of progressive organisations, including People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), staged a demonstration here on Wednesday seeking the release of Binayak Sen, paediatrician, who has been arrested by the Chhattisgarh Government on the charge of sedition.
The activists of Pragatipara Sanghatanegala Okkuta, Karnataka Rajya Cooliekara Sangha, Samata Vedike and [...]
Prof Gilani backs ‘political prisoners’
Statesman News Service
BHUBANESWAR, June 25: Mr S A R Gilani while addressing a convention organised to form a regional chapter of a platform to take up the cause of ‘political prisoners’ said that the growing tendency to crush resistance movements by arresting them needs to be checked.
“From Nandigram in West Bengal, Kalinga Nagar and Kashipur [...]
Wife of imprisoned Dr. seeks support of world community
By JULIE MASIS
Indianewengland.com
