*Uphold Democratic Values and Condemn Violence against Activists*
Violence, hooliganism, and disruption of the democratic process is common to all fundamentalist elements in the political sphere. Last evening some goons (a.k.a party workers) from the muslim fundamentalist Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party attacked noted activist S.Q. Masood, who was working as an observer for the Aam Aadmi Party at Golconda in the Karwan Assembly Constituency, Hyderabad. Similarly, three days ago well known activist Shabnam Hashmi and Pratap Singh Negi were attacked by BJP workers in Rae Bareli, UP while distributing leaflets exposing the Gujarat development claims. The workers threatened to rape Ms. Hashmi if she did not relent. In both cases the police refused to register FIRs. These brazen acts of violence by both Hindu and Muslim fundamentalist parties, within the protective umbrella of the police, are horrifying and must be strongly condemned. These parties are breeding an inhumane culture of intolerance in the name of religion and corrupting the law and order system.These incidents provide a glimpse of the hatred, disorder and deteriorated law & order situation that will be the order of the day when these parties come into power. In Solidarity Achin Vanaik, Academic, Delhi Ali Asghar, Hyderabad Amalendu Upadhyaya, Editor, Hastakshep.com Amar Kanwar Amit Sengupta, Senior Journalist Amitabh Pandey, Delhi Anu Chenoy, Academic, JNU, Delhi Apoorvanand, Academic, Delhi University Asad Ashraf, Jamia Student’s Solidarity Forum Asad Zaidi, Writer & Publisher Ashish Awasthi, Activist, Lucknow Battini Rao,People's Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS) Bhawna Sharma, Activist, Delhi Biju Mohan, Film maker, Kerala Dinesh Mohan, IIT Delhi Dr Neshat Quaiser, Academic, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi Father Cedric Prakash, Prashant, Ahmedabad Hasan Abdullah Harsh Kapoor (sacw.net) Hozefa Ujjaini, Ahmadabad Indu Prakash Singh, Rights Defender, NFHR & FACT Irfan Engineer, Mumbai Joe Athialy, Activist, Delhi John Dayal, Member, National Integration Council Kamal Mitra Chenoy, Academic, JNU, Delhi Kamayani Bali Mahabal, feminist and Human Rights Activist Kiran Shaheen, People's Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS) Kumar Prashant Kumar Sundaram, Anti Nuclear Activist, Delhi Lesley Esteves, Activist, New Delhi Madhuresh Kumar, NAPM Manisha Sethi, Academic, Delhi Mansi Sharma, Activist, Delhi Mohammad Imran Mukta Srivastava Nalini Taneja, Teacher, Delhi Navaid Hamid, Member, National Integration Council Niloufer Bhagwat, Mumbai Nirmalangshu Mukherji, Activist & Writer Nishat Quaisar, Jami Mila Ovais Sultan Khan, Social Work Professional, Delhi Persis Jinwala, Activist Ahmadabad Prasad Chacko, Activist, Ahmedabad Puneet Sharma, Director, Mumbai Purwa Bhardwaj, Independent Writer/Researcher, Delhi Rakesh Sharma, Film maker, Mumbai Ram Puniyani, All India Secular Forum, Mumbai Rohini Hensman, Writer Sanjay Kapoor, Editor, Hardnews Seema Mustafa, Editor, The Citizen Sehba farooqui, AIDWA Sheeba Aslam Fehmi, Activist, Writer, Delhi Shesh Narain Singh, Journalist Shree Prakash, UDFI, Indore Subhash Gatade, New Socialist Initiative Sukla Sen, Mumbai Sushovan Dhar Tanweer Fazal, Academic, JNU, Delhi Vidya Bhushan Rawat, Activist, writer, Delhi Vijay Kishor, Delhi Wilfred D Costa, INSAF -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to humanrights-movement+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to humanrights-movement@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
