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For those people outside UK, if you require the postcards for distribution please email your name and email address and we will be happy to email you the artwork so that you can print locally and distribute.

Please email khalsa.veer@googlemail.com

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Perhaps, the same could apply to the international poster.

The same image could be used and the international poster contacts - changed to national contacts. International locations changed to national locations.

Just an idea.

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the poster link doesnt work when i click on it

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The contacts shown on the poster are:

Bhai Amrik Singh +44 7960 633488

Bhai Awtar Singh Hundal +49 162 591 8886

Jathedar Balbir Singh Tutt +1 559 743 5959

Bhai Dabinderjit Singh +44 7919 166163

Bhai Daljit Singh Bittu +91 981 594 4483

Dr Gulab Singh +92 300 411 4929

Bhai Gurdial Singh +33 616 295 200

Bhai GurKuldip Singh +49 694 800 6571

Bhai Gurmeet Singh Khalsa +1 408 896 4518

Bhai Hardayal Singh +1 973 980 2379

Bhai Harminder Singh Khalsa +41 79 749 2438

Sant Baba Harnaam Singh +91 981 401 3915

Professor Jagmohan Singh +91 981 572 0731

Bhai Jagvinder Singh Bittu +32 485 324137

Bibi Jaskaran Kaur +1 408 727 6122

Singh Sahib Bhai Jasvir Singh +91 981 401 3915

Jatinder Singh +31 703 898 876

Bhai Kanwarpal Singh Bittu +91 981 490 7055

Master Karan Singh +41 79 868 1786

Bhai Maha Singh +1 403 462 8630

Navkiran Singh +91 981 441 1494

Bhai Ram Singh +1 408 262 3116

Bibi Ravinder Kaur +44 7871 296919

Note: A key contact for the Toronto candle light vigil is Sukhdev Singh on +1 416 674 7888.

Bhai Sukhvinder Singh +44 7973 439227

Sukhwinder Singh +44 2088 430555

Bhai Surinder Singh +30 210 452 6810

Dr. Tarunjit Singh +1 614 210 0591

Countries with several protests UK, Canada, USA, Panjab etc. are also likely to provide additional 'national' and 'local' contacts. Please watch the space on the Internet and in Sikh/Panjabi newspapers.

Several of the contacts are from the Sikh media who will play a vital part in making these protests a success.

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A Day of Protest

World / Community

Date: Dec 19, 2005 - 11:51 AM

London, England - A world day of protest is being planned for January 17, 2006. Sikhs in major cities such as London, Paris, Toronto and New York are aiming to show their opposition to the death penalty and call for the release of all Sikh political prisoners held in jails in India.

Candles will be lit in prominent places of cities throughout the world, and in India itself. Sikhs in more than 100 cities are expected to take part in the protest and will be joined by prominent politicians, human rights activists and trade union activists.

In the UK, candle light protests will take place simultaneously around twenty towns and cities and are organized by the Sikh Federation (UK), Khalsa Human Rights, Sikh Secretariat, Young Sikhs (UK), Sikh student groups, Gurdwaras and the Sadh Sangat. Amnesty International and other members of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty are supporting the protests.

Protest in London will be held outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster between 5-7pm. MPs, Lords and members of the public will join Sikhs to light candles celebrating life, freedom and opposition to the death penalty.

The protest date, January 17, was set to coincide with the 11th anniversary of one of the most controversial and highest profile death penalty cases in recent Indian history. Eleven years earlier, on January 17, 1995, Professor Davinderpal Singh, a Sikh political activist, was illegally deported from Germany. Davinderpal Singh was handed over to the Indian authorities on the basis that he had nothing to fear on his return to India. Singh was arrested and put in prison the moment he landed in Delhi. He was tortured to obtain a false confession, charged and sentenced to death by hanging for a crime he did not commit.

When Germany deported Davinderpal Singh to a country that allows the death-penalty, it violated the European Convention on Human Rights, the Sikh Federation stated. After his deportation, the court of appeals in Frankfurt, on appeal, said that he should not have been deported given the high probability of facing torture, harassment and death in India; and were he to re-enter Germany, he would be given asylum.

“The verdict of the court of appeals in Germany came too late for Davinderpal Singh. However, it has left Germany and the EU with a moral obligation to ensure the threat of the death penalty by India is removed and Davinderpal Singh and other political prisoners that are unnecessarily being held, either without trial or under false charges and without evidence, are released immediately,” the statement continued.

“Our aim is to organize candle light vigils in at least 20 towns/cities. We are already aware of vigils being organized in prominent locations in Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Coventry, Derby, Gravesend, Huddersfield, Leeds, Leicester, Manchester, Nottingham, Slough, Southampton, Walsall and Wolverhampton. We are also hopeful that Sikhs in the UK will organize candle light vigils in other locations.”

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This article comes from SikhNN

http://www.sikhnn.com/

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Would there ba a march in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA because I live in USA.

Need Some Information. :@

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The idea is for there to be CANDLE LIGHT VIGILS in as many town/cities as possible. Therefore, there is no need to have a march, but feel free to contact the police/local authorities and ask for permission for a vigil. In need only last a couple of hours in the evening.

Please involve the local media - press, radio and TV (if possible).

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The standard postcard for distribution on the Worldwide Day of Protest on 17 January 2006 will be avaliable in the UK from Saturday 24 December.

The postcards will be avaliable after the Bhog of Sri Akhand Paath - Saturday 24th December 2005 to mark the First Barsi of Baba Thakur Singh Ji at

Gurdwara Nanaksar

4 Wellington Street,

Pleck,

Walsall,

West Midlands

01922 641040

See the image below of the front of the postcard

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The front of the postcard has been slightly revised - the date 17 January 2006 has been added. This is because the postcards will be made available as planned after the Bhog of Sri Akhand Paath in Walsall - Saturday 24th December 2005 to mark the First Barsi of Baba Thakur Singh Ji.

Although the postcards should be distributed mainly to non-Sikhs on 17 January where candle light vigils are taking place it has been assumed that a small proportion will also be circulated to Sikhs in advance to raise awareness of the event.

Currently, the postcards made available on Saturday will be primarily for those that have already organised candle light vigils for 17 January - London, Slough, Leicester, Derby . . .

So Sikhs in Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff, Coventry, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Gravesend, Huddersfield, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Southampton, Walsall, Wolverhampton etc. please pull out all the stops in the next few days so 'customised' flyers can be produced with venues, times and local contact details.

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Bristol will be going ahead with the protest - flyer to come soon.

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Likely location for the Candle Light Vigil in Bristol - College Green, City Centre

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