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Community to protest Indian
police official's participation in UC seminar
WSN Network
CALIFORNIA: To
create awareness about the ongoing struggle for protection of human
rights in the Chattisgarh state of India, carious South Asian human
rights organizations would be holding a protest at the University of
California at Berkeley raising the issue of participation of tainted
police officer, Vishwa Rajan, the director general of police of the
Chattisgarh state of India.
Vishwa Ranjan is
a guest and speaker at the 2 day Seminar for Justice and
Law, organized by the Center for South Asian Studies at the
University.
Vishwa Rajan is
a strong defendant of the official vigilante group Salwa Judum
responsible for terror and mayhem in the name of restoring law and
order and is now touting his official position to present himself as
an intellectual.
Organised by the
Students for Justice in Chhattisgarh, Association for India's
Development (AID), Friends of South Asia (FOSA), the International
Campaign for Justice in Bhopal and other allied organizations have
invited members of the public to attend the symposium and challenge
Vishwa Ranjan as he defends police-state tactics at this open forum.
Dr. Binayak Sen, a highly acclaimed physician and human rights
activist has been imprisoned by the Chhattisgarh government for over
16 months on spurious charges of anti-national activities, even as
domestic and international human rights groups, academics,
intellectuals, including 22 Nobel Award laureates have asked for his
release.
27 September 2008
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