*Finally, Uttarakhand’s ‘Binayak Sen’ Rahi freed * *Denies being zonal commander of CPI (Maoists) Tribune News Service*
Dehradun, August 21 Former journalist Prashant Rahi was freed from Roshanabad situated Haridwar district jail today. His family members, including wife Chandra Kala Tewari, daughter Shikha and friend Jeevan Chand greeted him outside the prison. Rahi, who is popularly known as Uttarakhand’s Binayak Sen, today denied being zonal commander of the CPI (Maoists) or having links with any armed struggle. However, he admitted being sympathiser of the Maoist movement. Interacting with mediapersons in Dehradun, Rahi said the Uttarakhand Police wrongly portrayed him as a Maoist commander and the laptop and the hard disc shown to be confiscated from his possession were all concocted. Rahi was arrested by the Uttarakhand Police on December 22, 2007, primarily on the charge of being a zonal commander of the CPI (Maoists), a charge which he has denied all through. The Uttarakhand Police had claimed that Rahi was a threat to the security of the state due to his Maoist links. A week ago, the Nainital High Court had granted bail to Rahi, following which he was released from the Hariwar jail today. Rahi alleged that he was tortured by the police when he was in the jail. He claimed that he was picked up from Dehradun itself on December 17, 2007, and not arrested at Nanakmata as claimed by the police. “I was picked up from Araghar Chowk, Dehradun, by policemen in civil clothes, who came in a Maruti van. I was blindfolded and taken to Haspur Khatt in Udham Singh Nagar, from where I was shown as arrested,” Rahi alleged, adding that during the way he was tortured. He said during his imprisonment, no journalist was allowed to meet him. “A few, who came to meet him, visited him in disguise of friends and not mediapersons,” he added. Rahi expressed gratitude to the mediapersons and his friends for their unstinted support to him all through his ordeal. Referring to his future course of action, Rahi said he would now continue to raise the issue of landless and poverty-ridden classes. He also expressed his concern over various innocent Maoist sympathisers languishing in jails. He said he would work for the release of those sympathisers. Shikha, who had launched a crusade for her father’s freedom, and Revolutionary Democratic Front’s Uttarakhand president Jeewan Chand were also present. -- 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> -- 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 humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
