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Fwd: We condemn 'illegal' arrest of Feroze Mithiborwala & Kishore Jagtap



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From: Feroze Mithiborwala <feroze.moses777@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Subject: We condemn 'illegal' arrest of Feroze Mithiborwala & Kishore Jagtap
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                                                                                 Press Statement

   We condemn 'illegal' arrest of Feroze
 
We, the undersigned, note with a sense of shock and horror that last evening, at around 9 00 PM, prominent human rights and social activist from Mumbai, Mr Feroze Mithiborwala, was picked up by three police people from his residence at Marol and taken to the MIDC, Andheri(E) police station. He has been kept under detention overnight.
 
No reason whatever has been indicated for this official "kidnap". He was not even allowed to talk to his lawyer.

It appears that he is picked up to prevent him from holding any protest demonstration against the visiting US Secretary of State, Ms. Hillary Clinton. 

One does not have to agree with Mr. Mithiborwala on his political position to denounce this grossly undemocratic act on the part of the Mumbai Police. The right to dissent, and dissent in public, is what sets a a "democracy" apart from an authoritarian regime. And we never tire of claiming, and not too unjustifiably, that India is the "largest democracy" in the world.
 
It is precisely in that context, the action of the Mumbai Police is extremely unfortunate and utterly condemnable.

We demand that the state Home Minister immediately take note and act against the erring officials.
 
He should also issue a note of apology as the buck presumably stops at his door.
 
Feroze and Kishore Jagtap were released today around 5.45 pm without any charge.

  1. Mihir Desai              Lawyer
  2. Yusuf Muchala         Lawyer
  3. Sukla Sen               Ekta
  4. Jatin Desai              Peoples' Media Initiative
  5. Yogesh Kamdar       Peoples' Union for Civil Liberties
  6. Seema Mustafa       Journalist
  7. Dolphy Dsouza        Bombay Catholic Sabha
  8. Nandita Shah          Akshara
  9. Sanober Keshwaar   Human Rights activist
  10. Lena Ganesh          Social Activist
  11. Jaya Velankar         Writer
  12. Daniel Mazgaonkar  Sarvodaya Activist
  13. Kamayani Mahabal Shetty  Social Activist
  14. K L Bajaj                 CPM
  15. Soheb Lokhandwala   MPJ
  16. Bhagwan Keshbhat  YUVA
  17. Sushovan Dhar        Social Activist
  18. Suvrat Raju


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