Citizens' Initiative for Peace

SUB: PRESS CONFERENCE

Dear all

The Citizens' Initiative for Peace (CIP) has organised a press conference on Tuesday, July 21, 2009, at 4.30 P.M. at the Press Club (next to Azad Maidan) to highlight the issue of grossly undemocratic arrest and detention of Feroze Mithiborwala, Kishor Jagtap and Aslam Ghazi.


They were picked up by the Mumbai Police on Friday evening without indicating any ground whatever and kept in respective police stations for over 20 hours. Their arrests are, by all appearance, linked to the visit of the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the city - in an apparent bid to scuttle any possible protests.

The press conference will be addressed by Adv. Gayatri Singh. She had visited the MIDC police station for the legal defence of Feroze Mithiborwala and Kishor Jagtap and effect their early release. She will explain ithe legal dimensions of these "preventive arrests", without any specific charge, in the broader context of Indian legal regime. It will also be addressed by Feroze Mithiborwala, Kishor Jagtap and Aslam Ghazi. They will narrate their own experiences.


Veteran Journalist and Loksatta Editor Shri Kumar Ketkar would speak on the implications of such arrests on India's democratic credentials and prospects.Customary question and answer session would follow.

Please depute your reporter and photographer to cover the event and oblige.

Regards,

Dolphy D'souza Jatin Desai Sukla Sen
(9322255812)