Worldwide Day Of Protest

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

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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Posted by Roman Singh on www.sikhnet.com

Reading this article makes me feel good that Sikhs are raising important issues. However, it also makes me feel NOT SAFE anywhere in the world.

Germany, the country that now claims to be a human-rights pillar did this horrible crime not a decade ago! Yes, it was a crime. They participated in a murder. It might not have been first degree, but it was technically murder with Germany being an accomplice.

Basically, the case of Professor Davinderpal Singh tells me that if we are politically active for the Sikh cause, we can be deported to India, then tortured to make a false confession, and then executed. The only thing India has to do is "pressure" the country that the victim is in.

The article also shows the hypocrisy of the Indian rule. Narendra Modi, an Indian politician with Muslim blood on his hands is basically living free in India. Tytler, with Sikh blood on his hands, is also quite free. But one man, a professor, half a world away, was brought to the gallows in India to satisfy the thirst of liars.

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[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Details of the Derby candle light vigil are shown in the flyer below:

Derby Candle Light Vigil

17 January 2006 (5-7pm)

Market Place (Outside the Assembly Rooms)

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Derby Sikhs are also producing their own flyer, emphasising this will be a Candle Light Vigil.

[singh_comradz]

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/

141910[/snapback]

Posted by Roman Singh on www.sikhnet.com

Reading this article makes me feel good that Sikhs are raising important issues. However, it also makes me feel NOT SAFE anywhere in the world.

Germany, the country that now claims to be a human-rights pillar did this horrible crime not a decade ago! Yes, it was a crime. They participated in a murder. It might not have been first degree, but it was technically murder with Germany being an accomplice.

Basically, the case of Professor Davinderpal Singh tells me that if we are politically active for the Sikh cause, we can be deported to India, then tortured to make a false confession, and then executed. The only thing India has to do is "pressure" the country that the victim is in.

The article also shows the hypocrisy of the Indian rule. Narendra Modi, an Indian politician with Muslim blood on his hands is basically living free in India. Tytler, with Sikh blood on his hands, is also quite free. But one man, a professor, half a world away, was brought to the gallows in India to satisfy the thirst of liars.

http://www.sikhnn.com/modules.php?op=modlo...order=0&thold=0

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thats 'free' india for you. a joke

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Details of the Derby candle light vigil are shown in the flyer below:

Derby Candle Light Vigil

17 January 2006 (5-7pm)

Market Place (Outside the Assembly Rooms)

141556[/snapback]

Derby Sikhs are also producing their own flyer, emphasising this will be a Candle Light Vigil.

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Flyer produced by Derby Sikhs

Other may wish to do something similar.

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Various people have asked about a standard banner or placards

The Standard Banner is the responsibility for each town/city - the suggested wording is:

'Release Sikh political prisoners and end the death penalty in India'

The suggested wording for the Standard Placard is:

'Light a candle to show the importance of life, freedom and your opposition to the death penalty'

Placards used in earlier protests outside the German Embassy and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (January 2003) are shown below (two at a time). Feel free to use these ideas or any you have of your own. However, keep it simple:

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Various people have asked about a standard banner or placards

The Standard Banner is the responsibility for each town/city - the suggested wording is:

'Release Sikh political prisoners and end the death penalty in India'

The suggested wording for the Standard Placard is:

'Light a candle to show the importance of life, freedom and your opposition to the death penalty'

Placards used in earlier protests outside the German Embassy and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (January 2003) are shown below (two at a time).  Feel free to use these ideas or any you have of your own.  However, keep it simple:

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[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Various people have asked about a standard banner or placards

The Standard Banner is the responsibility for each town/city - the suggested wording is:

'Release Sikh political prisoners and end the death penalty in India'

The suggested wording for the Standard Placard is:

'Light a candle to show the importance of life, freedom and your opposition to the death penalty'

Placards used in earlier protests outside the German Embassy and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (January 2003) are shown below (two at a time).  Feel free to use these ideas or any you have of your own.  However, keep it simple:

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[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Various people have asked about a standard banner or placards

The Standard Banner is the responsibility for each town/city - the suggested wording is:

'Release Sikh political prisoners and end the death penalty in India'

The suggested wording for the Standard Placard is:

'Light a candle to show the importance of life, freedom and your opposition to the death penalty'

Placards used in earlier protests outside the German Embassy and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (January 2003) are shown below (two at a time).  Feel free to use these ideas or any you have of your own.  However, keep it simple:

142057[/snapback]

142059[/snapback]

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Various people have asked about a standard banner or placards

The Standard Banner is the responsibility for each town/city - the suggested wording is:

'Release Sikh political prisoners and end the death penalty in India'

The suggested wording for the Standard Placard is:

'Light a candle to show the importance of life, freedom and your opposition to the death penalty'

Placards used in earlier protests outside the German Embassy and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (January 2003) are shown below (two at a time).  Feel free to use these ideas or any you have of your own.  However, keep it simple:

142057[/snapback]

142059[/snapback]

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Various people have asked about a standard banner or placards

The Standard Banner is the responsibility for each town/city - the suggested wording is:

'Release Sikh political prisoners and end the death penalty in India'

The suggested wording for the Standard Placard is:

'Light a candle to show the importance of life, freedom and your opposition to the death penalty'

Placards used in earlier protests outside the German Embassy and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (January 2003) are shown below (two at a time).  Feel free to use these ideas or any you have of your own.  However, keep it simple:

142057[/snapback]

142059[/snapback]