I endorse this. Kasturi Chatterjee/ JNU.
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:07:45 +0530 wrote >Endorsed Kalpana, Rinchin, Indira, for WSS On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:37 PM, gautam navlakha wrote: kindly add my name. gautam navlakha On 1/17/12, Mahtab Alam wrote: > We, the undersign strongly condemn the harassment of social activist and > human rights' defender, Dayamani Barla by the Jharkhand Police. Dayamani, > a well known and noted journalist-turned-activist and human rights' > defender based in Jharkhand, is one of the leaders of anti-displacement > movements. She is also part of many organisations, movements and > federations, INSAF and NAPM. > > > On 14th January, in the evening, a Police Mobile Van of Chutya Thana > (Ranchi) landed at her hotel on Club Road, Ranchi, and started to harass > her staff asking about her links with anti-social elements. The > Sub-Inspector making the 'enquiries' had neither no written permission or > order. The following day, when Ms. Barla, met SSP Ranchi, Mr. Saket Kumar > at his residence to ask why she was being harassed in this manner, his > response was that the allegations were being made on the basis of an > complaint and the fact that she participated in the "Free Jiten Marandi > Convention”, in which Varavara Rao was also present. > > > Harassment of activists on flimsy pretexts and on grounds that they > exercised their Constitutionally guaranteed democratic rights is a > dangerous trend and will be resisted robustly by human rights activists > everywhere. > > > We stand in solidarity with Dayamani Barala. > > > In solidarity, > > 1. Kavita Srivastava, National Secretary,PUCL > > 2. Manisha Sethi, President, Jamia Teachers' Solidarity Association (JTSA) > > 3. Harsh Dobhal, Human Rights Law Network > > 4. Mahtab Alam, Coalition for Protection of Human Rights' Defenders (CPHRD) > > > > > > > > -- > MD. MAHTAB ALAM > mdmahtaba...@gmail.com > Phone:+ 91-9811209345 > > -- > 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. > > -- 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. -- > 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. > -- 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.
