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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Invitation<o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></U></B></p><DEFANGED_DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Uphold the right to organize,
safeguard the right to protest ! <o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></B></p><DEFANGED_DIV>
<p><DEFANGED_DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><DEFANGED_SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">On 8<SUP>th</SUP> May, 2007 Arun
Ferreira (ex-st xaviers, mumbai), Ashok Reddy (originally from AP), Dhanendra
Bhurle (journalist from Gondia) and Naresh Bansod (president, Andha Shraddha
Nirmulan Samiti, Gondia) were arrested under the Unlawful Activities Prevention
Act (UAPA), successor to notorious earlier laws like TADA and POTA. After severe
torture at the hands of the police they were forced to submit to narco-analysis.
A month later another court has ordered a second round of narco-analysis, which
is nothing but a coercive interrogation practice that falls within the United
Nations' definition of torture<o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></p><DEFANGED_DIV>
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<p><DEFANGED_DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><DEFANGED_SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">According to the police, these are
supposedly dreaded terrorists out to create trouble on a host of issues. They
were supposedly found in possession of anti-government material on … SEZs, the
Ramabai Nagar firing, the massacres at Khairlanji, farmers’
suicides...<o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></p><DEFANGED_DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">When civil liberties activists and
others protested these arrests and the subsequent torture methods, the Nagpur
Commissioner of Police was reported by the press to have warned that he is ready
to arrest anyone who spoke in support of those arrested.<DEFANGED_SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </DEFANGED_SPAN><o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></p><DEFANGED_DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">That this is no idle threat can be
seen from the recent arrest of Dr. Binayak Sen, the renowned doctor of
Chattisgarh, who has spent most of his life as a health activist among the
workers and tribals of the state. As secretary of the Chhattisgarh People's
Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and its all-India vice-president, he has also
been vocal against the atrocities committed by the Salwa Judum, a
government-sponsored anti-Maoist programme which involves forced displacement of
tribals into camps.<o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></p><DEFANGED_DIV>
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<p><DEFANGED_DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><DEFANGED_SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Both these arrests send out a clear
message that anyone who speaks out against the government and the status quo
will be targeted by the state. Activists organizing the people to change the
desperate conditions in which they live and fight the vested interests that
maintain such conditions are labeled “terrorists’ by the state.<DEFANGED_SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </DEFANGED_SPAN>Those who question unjust laws and
protest illegal actions on the part of the police are threatened to remain
silent. Undertrials, and now increasingly, social activists are being subjected
to dubious invasive procedures like narco-analysis which involves coercion and
amounts to torture.<o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></p><DEFANGED_DIV>
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<p><DEFANGED_DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><DEFANGED_SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Come lend your voice against these
increasingly undemocratic practices along with other concerned
citizens.<o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></B></p><DEFANGED_DIV>
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<p><DEFANGED_DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><DEFANGED_SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Public Meeting on Saturday, July
7<SUP>th</SUP> 2007, 5:30 pm onwards</DEFANGED_SPAN></B><DEFANGED_SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></p><DEFANGED_DIV>
<p><DEFANGED_DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><DEFANGED_SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">at Rama Watumull Auditorium, K C
College</DEFANGED_SPAN></B><DEFANGED_SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></p><DEFANGED_DIV>
<p><DEFANGED_DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><DEFANGED_SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dinshaw Vachha Road,
Churchgate</DEFANGED_SPAN></B><DEFANGED_SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></p><DEFANGED_DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Speakers:</DEFANGED_SPAN></B><DEFANGED_SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dr. Amar Jesani</DEFANGED_SPAN></B><DEFANGED_SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> on the medical and ethical
aspects of narco-analysis <o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Nandita Haksar, </DEFANGED_SPAN></B><DEFANGED_SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Supreme
Court lawyer,</DEFANGED_SPAN><DEFANGED_SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> on
'terrorist' organizations, and why organizations working with people's issues
are labeled terrorists. <o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Gautam Navlakha,</DEFANGED_SPAN></B><DEFANGED_SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
journalist and activist,</DEFANGED_SPAN><DEFANGED_SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> on the assault on the civil
liberties and democratic rights movement, and the state's aversion to any form
of dissent, case in point- Binayak Sen</DEFANGED_SPAN><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><DEFANGED_SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">
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size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></DEFANGED_SPAN></p><DEFANGED_DIV>
<p><DEFANGED_DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><DEFANGED_SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT size=3>FORUM
AGAINST NARCO-ANALYSIS AND OTHER FORMS OF
TORTURE <o:p></o:p></FONT></DEFANGED_SPAN></B></p><DEFANGED_DIV>
<p><DEFANGED_DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><DEFANGED_SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><FONT size=3>Supported by
Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights, Lokshahi Hakk Sangathana,
India Centre for Human Rights and the Law, Justice and Peace Commission, Forum
for Medical Ethics, and other concerned citizens.<o:p></o:p></FONT></DEFANGED_SPAN></p><DEFANGED_DIV>
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