Date: 26 November 2011 Subject: Anti POSCO PPSS leader Abhay Sahoo arrested in Odisha - Newzfirst
Anti POSCO PPSS leader Abhay Sahoo arrested in Odisha - Full Story - Newzfirst<http://www.newzfirst.com/web/guest/full-story/-/asset_publisher/Qd8l/content/anti-posco-ppss-leader-abhay-sahoo-arrested-in-odisha?redirect=%2Fweb%2Fguest%2Fin+focus> Sat, 26 Nov 2011 Anti POSCO PPSS leader Abhay Sahoo arrested in Odisha By Newzfirst Correspondent 11/25/11 <http://tellafriend.socialtwist.com/> <http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=newzfirst> PARADIP - Abhay Sahoo leader of anti POSCO movement in Odisha got arrested this evening in Jagatsinghpur district. He was coming back to his block Ersama from Paradip. Speaking to Newzfirst, Prashant Paikray spokesperson of POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) said 'after adapting various unsuccessful means, Govt. wants to sabotage the anti POSCO movement by arresting its leaders. We condemn this kind of action. Govt. should understand that, people's movement will be intensified by this kind of approach. We demand his immediate release'. Sahu has been lodged at Jagatsinghpur police station. He was earlier arrested in October 2008 when he came out of village for treatment. He was charged with 33 cases and when he was in jail 4 more cases were slapped. He was in prison for 10 month 14 days. Abhay Sahoo, graduated from SDM College, Jagatsinghpur. He was elected General Secretary of the students’ union in the late 1970s. He did his Masters degree in English Literature from Regenshaw College, Cuttack, where he was State Secretary of the All India Students’ Federation (AISF). In 1977, he joined the Communist Party of India (CPI) and, in the early 1980s he became part of the trade union movement, working with Paradeep’s port workers. Later, he went home to his village in Kimilo, Jagatsingpur, Erasama block, and worked with agriculture labourers. In 2003, he became a member of the Orissa CPI’s state secretariat. He also worked on rights-based issues at the Bharatiya Khetmajdur Union as its state General Secretary until 2005. He founded PPSS in 2005 and is leading the struggle against the company since then. He said earlier in an interview with newzfirst that 'POSCO is not possible. Dhinkia movement will never break…its united…they will have to shift. In Dhinkia it’s not possible. Only force can destroy this resistance' Complete interview of Abhay Sahoo with Chief Editor in August 2011 http://www.newzfirst.com/web/guest/full-story/-/asset_publisher/Qd8l/content/face-to-face:-a-talk-with-anti-posco-ppss-leader-abhay-sahoo?redirect=/web/guest/home - Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * *C*ase for privacy * http://www.frontlineonnet.com/stories/20111202282401300.htm* * *Enrolment saga- * http://www.frontlineonnet.com/stories/20111202282402200.htm *False promises-*http://www.frontlineonnet.com/stories/20111202282401900.htm *PDS in peril-*http://www.frontlineonnet.com/stories/20111202282401600.htm *Identity concerns-* http://www.frontlineonnet.com/stories/20111202282400400.htm *UID EXCLUSION- *http://www.frontlineonnet.com/stories/20111202282412200.htm *UID Reliable ? * http://www.frontlineonnet.com/stories/20111202282402500.htm *BiometricS .*https://mail.google.com/mail/#search/settings/133a823cdda21490 *SAY NO TO UID CAMPAIGN JOIN US - https://www.facebook.com/groups/nouid/* http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com -- 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.
