[Reader-list] Fwd: [pudr-info] Invite: Public Meeting: Law on Sedition & Attack on Freedom of Expression & Right to Dissent

[Nagraj Adve]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "PUDR Delhi" <pudrdelhi at gmail.com>
Date: 29-Feb-2016 4:53 pm
Subject: [pudr-info] Invite: Public Meeting: Law on Sedition & Attack on
Freedom of Expression & Right to Dissent
To: "activist PUDR" <activist at pudr.org>
Cc: "Friends of PUDR" <pudr-info at pudr.org>, "CDRO" <cdro at pudr.org>

*Janhastakshep, PUDR and PUCL*


cordially invite you to  a  public meeting on



*THE LAW ON SEDITION*

*AND*

*ATTACK ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND RIGHT TO DISSENT*

*Date:* 2nd March, 2016, Wednesday

*Time:* 5 PM
*Venue:* Gandhi Peace Foundation

                  Deendayal Upadhyay Marg

                                                (Near ITO Metro Station) New
Delhi - 110001



*Speakers:*

Justice (Retd.) Rajinder Sachchar

Justice (Retd.) Jaspal Singh

Shri Pankaj Bisht (Editor, *Samyaantar*)

Prof. Nivedita Menon (JNU)



Friends,



The ongoing attacks on constitutional and democratic rights are alarming.
We, as democratic rights organizations, are seriously concerned with the
fascist attacks on the rights to freedom of thought, expression,
association and dissent, by invoking the draconian sedition law, a colonial
hangover. This law is being used against whoever dares to think and differ,
and has the courage to express it. We demand the scrapping of this
anti-national colonial legislation, about which Amartya Sen rightly said,
“We should not allow the colonial penal code that imposes unfreedoms to
remain unchallenged. We should not tolerate the intolerance that undermines
our democracy and facilitates a culture of impunity of tormentors.”


It is in this context we seek to intervene in the ongoing discourse and
debate on attacks on institutions and ideas, and on the need to repeal
draconian acts, like the one on sedition, that violate the natural and
human rights to question- without which there can be no knowledge. We
appeal to you to join us in this ongoing struggle against the fascist
designs of right wing extremism.



Sd                                          Sd                           Sd

Ish Mishra                          ND Pancoli             Deepika Tandon,
Moushumi Basu

(Janhastakshep)                  (PUCL)                   (PUDR)

_______________________________________________
Pudr-info mailing list
Pudr-info at pudr.org
http://mail.pudr.org/mailman/listinfo/pudr-info_pudr.org