Mise à jour sur la pétitionNoone should be arrested for mourningTN government has to face UN music: Henry Tiphagne
Maxwin rayenCuttack, Inde
3 juin 2017
The booking of Tamil activists and the three others under ''The Goondas Act" has been taken up with the United Nations and National Human Rights Commission. Addressing media persons in Madurai yesterday, Henry Tiphagne, National Working Secretary, Human Rights Defenders Alert (HRDA) said that Tamilnadu government and Chennai city police commissioner A.K Viswanathan would soon face the music for foisting false case against human rights defenders. According to guidelines issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of assembly and association, it is sufficient to give notice to the police for organizing a peaceful protest in the country. While so, in the case, the police have slammed Goondas against Gandhi and three others for participating in a peaceful candlelight vigil to remember the Tamil martyrs killed by the Sri Lankan Army in Mullivaikal in 2009 ,at Marina Beach recently, he said. The police first arrested all the members of the May17 Movement for participating in the vigil, But later setting the others free, they had remanded Gandhi along with three others to judicial custody and subsequently detained them under on Goondas Act on May 29. ''The remand of four alone, while letting others free is an act of premeditated malice expressed by the police commissioner Viswanathan with not even an iota of respect for rule of law in this country" he said. The police detained them with the sole intent to detain them under Goondas Act, adding it was also clear violation of Apex court ruling in Arneesh Kumar Vs State of Bihar which said that police should not routinely remand persons charged with offences punishable for less than seven years. Retired Judge Natarajan expressed strong condemnation against the police for detaining the four under " The Goondas Act".
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