Worldwide Day Of Protest

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

BBC Radio Bristol, will be covering the Bristol vigil tomorrow morning

at 7.45am 95.5FM:

Interviewees:

Barret Makani: Amnesty international - Bristol President Against the

death penalty

Dave Chapple: coalition against Fascism

Javinder Singh: Organiser Bristol Vigil

Please tune-in!

Gur Fateh JI

Javinder Singh

07775 808603

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Media coverage of Worldwide Candle Light Vigils - 17 January 2006

BBC Asian Network will be mentioning the vigils live at around 7.50am in the Breakfast Show tomorrow morning.

Sunrise Radio News will be mentioning the vigils on the news from 6.00am tomorrow morning.

Both BBC Asian Network and Sunrise Radio will be represented outside the House of Parliament from 5-7pm and will be covering the vigil live for their Drive Time programmes.

Local press and local radio are covering the vigils in many towns

Waiting to see if the mainstream media will also cover the vigils. All please try and use your contacts and exert pressure.

[anjaan]

BUMP

please also get texting friends and family

everyone aim to at least bring one person along!!

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Rallies by Sikh bodies today

Tribune - Our Correspondent

Amritsar, January 16

The Punjab Rights Forum would organise protest rallies in different places in the state, especially at Ludhiana, Hoshiarpur, Patiala, Chandigarh and Fatehgarh Sahib to seek justice for Prof Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, who is on the death roll in connection with a bomb blast case, tomorrow.

Mr Kanwar Pal Singh, general secretary, Dal Khalsa, said in a press release here today that protest rallies would be organised outside the offices of Deputy Commissioners. He said they would raise three major issues, eviction of Sikh farmers in Uttaranchal, release of Sikh prisoners and commuting of death sentence of Prof Bhullar.

He said leaders of political parties, including the SAD (A), the SAD (Longowal) and Shiromani Khalsa Dal would participate in this series of protests.

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Forum to hold rally against death penalty

[ Tuesday, January 17, 2006 02:46:39 amTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

CHANDIGARH: In continuance of the international campaign against death penalty, the Punjab Rights Forum will be organising a protest rally at the Sector 17 Plaza on Tuesday from 12.30 pm onwards.

The participants will be demonstrating on the issue in keeping with a worldwide protest by Sikhs on Tuesday for drawing attention to the plight of Sikh political activists who have been convicted and awarded death penalty.

The group will also take up the cause of alleged terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar who was deported from Germany to India with the assurance that he would not be hanged but now faces death penalty.

As per a press release issued by the Forum, 69 countries the world over have abolished death penalty in all categories of crime, while 14 have abolished it in ordinary crimes.

Twenty-three countries, even though they have not abolished death penalty have not awarded death penalty to anyone in the last ten years.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1374495.cms

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Sikhs at clock tower call for Indian reform

[January 17, 2006]

(Leicester Mercury Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)

Leicester: Sikhs will gather at the Clock Tower from 5pm to 7pm tomorrow on Tuesday, January 17, in a candlelit vigil being observed by Sikhs across the world.

They are calling for the end of the death penalty in India and the release of all Sikh political prisoners held there.

It is being staged by the Sikh Federation, which calls itself the first and only Sikh political party in the UK.

More than 100 cities worldwide and 15 in the UK will be involved.

Other organisations involved include the National Council of Gurdwaras, Khalsa Human Rights, Sikh Secretariat, Young Sikhs (UK), World Sikh Organisation, International Sikh Youth Federation, and Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar).

The vigils are being supported by Amnesty International and other members of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty.

The vigil in London will be held outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster between 5pm and 7pm.

The vigils coincide with the 11th anniversary of one of the most controversial and highest profile death penalty cases in recent Indian history when Professor Davinderpal Singh Bhullar was deported from Germany to India where he is on death row.

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-sikhs-clock...jan/1290439.htm

[anjaan]

BUMP

"a candle never loses anything when it lights another candle"

small check list :

candles

lighters (more effective than matches)

audio eqipment (if being used)

flyers/handouts for public

foil or other siutable material to place candles on

banner(s)

refreshments (if being used)

cameras! don't forget to take pics!

mmmm can't think of anything else right now!

ensure handful of sevadaars are around to talk to passers by etc - preferably even before event starts

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/news/

Sikh vigil for release for political prisoners

Tuesday 17th January, 2006, 09:30 GMT

Sikh groups are to hold candle lit vigils this evening across Britain and the rest of the world urging the Indian Government to release Sikhs who they say are political prisoners . They are also calling for an end to the death penalty in India. The Indian High Commission in London told the Asian Network that the death penalty is only imposed in rare cases and they deny there are any political prisoners.

Have your say by going on the web site . . .

[Taksali Singh]

wjkkwjkp!

YORKSHIRE EVENING POST to Cover the LEEDS Event!

As well as BBC YORKSHIRE!

NOT LONG TO GO!

PLEASE MAKE SURE EACH EVENT STARTS WITH ARDAAS ASKING MAHARAJ FOR BLESSINGS!

IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WE SEEK GUIDANCE FROM THE KING OF KINGS!

wjkkwjkp!

[anjaan]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/news/

Sikh vigil for release for political prisoners

Tuesday 17th January, 2006, 09:30 GMT

Sikh groups are to hold candle lit vigils this evening across Britain and the rest of  the world urging the Indian Government to release Sikhs who they say are political  prisoners . They are also calling for an end to the death penalty in India. The Indian High Commission in London told the Asian Network that the death penalty is only imposed in rare cases and they deny there are any political prisoners.

Have your say by going on the web site . . . 

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has anyone managed to get through to the board? i can't seem to!

link anyone?