Worldwide Day Of Protest

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

so what happens next?

like in terms of the petitions and stuff and the whole campaign in general?

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BUMP

anyone??

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Will post later tonight.

Also will set up as a separate item on Sikh Sangat as:

"Follow up actions - Worldwide Candle Lit Vigils"

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

so what happens next?

like in terms of the petitions and stuff and the whole campaign in general?

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BUMP

anyone??

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Will post later tonight.

Also will set up as a separate item on Sikh Sangat as:

"Follow up actions - Worldwide Candle Lit Vigils"

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Follow up actions - Worldwide Candle Lit Vigils

We need to increase political pressure on the Indian Government.

Sikhs in the Diaspora can best achieve this by pushing politicians where they live. MPs in the UK have reacted to the Candle Lit Vigils by tabling the Early Day Motion below:

EDM 1394 - PROFESSOR DAVINDERPAL SINGH BHULLAR

17 January 2006

That this House urges the President of India to intervene in the case of Professor Davinderpal Singh Bhullar, who was deported from Germany in 1995 contrary to Article 3 of the European Human Rights Convention and who has been facing a sentence of death in India since 2001, despite the serious doubts expressed by many, including human rights bodies and the most senior judge on the bench in his trial, about the manner in which his conviction was obtained including the use of torture; and urges the United Kingdom Government to do all it can in conjunction with the German Government and the European Union in making representations to the Indian Government to secure justice in this case.

7 UK MPs - John McDonnell, Rob Marris, Martin Caton, Derek Wyatt, Lynne Jones, Peter Bottomley and Ronnie Campbell have already signed the EDM.

Write, email, fax and ring your MP and ask him/her to sign EDM 1394 and write to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office urging them to take relevant actions in conjunction with the German Government and other members of the European Union. The EDM will remain open until November 2006.

You may wish to use tha facility www.faxyourmp.com

Note: Around 150 MPs (Government Ministers and PPSs) are unable to sign EDMs due to Parliamentary protocol.

It should be possible for Sikhs in Canada, USA and other countries to approach politicians in the countries where they live and urge their respective Governments to exert pressure on the Indian authorities.

If we all did this where we live a considerable amount of pressure could be exerted.

A Written Declaration is also to be tabled in the European Parliament with regards to Professor Davinderpal Singh Bhullar. This will enable Sikhs in the 25 Member States to urge MEPs to sign the Written Declaration when it is released. The Written Declaration will only be available to sign by MEPs for 90 days. MEPs should also be encouraged to write to their national governments and the Indian authorities.

To coincide with the additional issue raised by Sikhs protesting in Panjab MPs in the UK have also raised the following Early Day Motion:

EDM 1383 - BEHAVIOUR OF THE INDIAN POLICE

16 January 2006

That this House expresses its deep concern at the recent examples of brutal behaviour of the Indian Police in the eviction of Punjabi farmers from their farms in Kashipur in the State of Uttaranchal, in their violent attack on the protesting vegetable merchants in the old fruit market in Amritsar, and the beating to near death of Sukhvinder Singh Sukha at Phagawara; and calls upon the Government to express formally its condemnation to the Indian High Commission.

This will be started as a new topic - hopefully as a STICKY

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

This was in the Leics Merc this morning.

CANDLELIT VIGIL MARKS DAY OF PROTEST OVER DEATH PENALTY

10:30 - 19 January 2006

People gathered at a candlelit vigil to call for an end to the death penalty around the world.

The two-hour event, held on Tuesday night beneath Leicester's Clocktower, was organised by the Leicester branch of the Sikh Federation, a UK political party.

It joined with other Sikh organisations to hold a day of protest in cities in Britain and across the world.

The group is calling for the release of political prisoners in India and an end to torture and the death penalty worldwide.

The vigil was held 11 years to the day after Davinderpal Singh Bhullar, a political activist living in Germany, was deported to India where, it is claimed, he was tortured and sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit.

The events were supported by global anti-death penalty groups Amnesty International and the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty.

Gurjeet Singh Samara, an executive member of the Leicester branch of the Sikh Federation, said: "We are against the death penalty taking place in India and any other country. There have been executions of people who were later found to be innocent."

Randeep Singh, 21, from Stoneygate, said: "I'm here to remember all those people who are detained and facing the death penalty in India.

"It is important that we abolish this practice all over the world and I'm glad that tonight people have come together in support of the issue."

Balbir Singh, 42, from Humberstone Gate, said: "This is important because there are people all over the world being tortured. It needs to be stopped."

Non-Sikhs were also encouraged to take part in the event.

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[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

If would be very helpful if reports and photographs, such as the one attached for Toronto (in Panjabi) could be produced and shared.

Please scan any articles from the local press in your town or specialised (Panjabi) press and post them here.

Great work by the Canadian Organisation of Sikh Students and supporting organisations.

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Could also visit:

http://www.sanjhsavera.com/jan_1906.html

Same report posted earlier (in Panjabi) but different photos

[Dukh Sukh]

i woz jus wondering when the photos from the day will be up???? from here in england and canada, india etc etc it would be cool to see the pictures from all over! anybody know?

sorry admin if i posted in wrong section

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

i woz jus wondering when the photos from the day will be up???? from here in england and canada, india etc etc it would be cool to see the pictures from all over! anybody know?

sorry admin if i posted in wrong section   

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See last 4 or 5 pages of the following topic for photographs and additional links:

http://www.sikhsangat.com/index.php?showtopic=15870

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Report and photographs from the vigil in New York

NYCandleLightVigil.pdf

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

A BBC online article is likely to be released on Monday on the political response in the UK to the Candle Lit Vigils.

[Nama Singh]

i woz jus wondering when the photos from the day will be up???? from here in england and canada, india etc etc it would be cool to see the pictures from all over! anybody know?

sorry admin if i posted in wrong section   

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you can view Leeds and Wolverhampton at Ektaone.com

the others havent been posted on any other site (i think) and are available on the previous pages of this thread.

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

A few photographs from the protest in Philadelphia on 17 January 2006

Photograph 1