INDIA: The arrest of cartoonist Aseem Trivedi on charges of sedition for allegedly mocking national symbols sparks protests around India.

Record ID: 1130613

  • Title: INDIA: The arrest of cartoonist Aseem Trivedi on charges of sedition for allegedly mocking national symbols sparks protests around India.
  • Date: 10th September 2012
  • Summary: MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA (SEPTEMBER 10, 2012) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (ANI-NO ACCESS BBC) VARIOUS OF SUPPORTERS OF INDIA'S ANTI-CORRUPTION CRUSADER ANNA HAZARE AND CARTOONIST ASEEM TRIVEDI PROTESTING OUTSIDE A POLICE STATION POLICE WATCHING PROTESTORS PEOPLE ARGUING AND MORE OF PROTESTORS VARIOUS OF CAMERAS FILMING PROTESTORS ACTIVIST AND FRIEND OF ASEEM TRIVEDI, ALOK DIKSHIT STANDING OUTSIDE POLICE STATION (SOUNDBITE) (English) CLOSE AIDE OF INDIA'S VETERAN ANTI-CORRUPTION CRUSADER ANNA HAZARE, MAYANK GANDHI, SAYING: "This sedition law has been drafted by the British at that time to pressurize the Indians who were fighting against injustice and for freedom and independence. How can you use that same law against some innocent young boy who has made a cartoon to say exactly what we have been saying? I mean, I am sure all the press and so many people are saying that this country is being raped. So he just makes a visual depiction and you call it sedition? I think it is completely unjustified." CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU, INDIA (SEPTEMBER 10, 2012) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (ANI-NO ACCESS BBC) CHAIRMAN OF PRESS COUNCIL OF INDIA (PCI) AND FORMER JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT, JUSTICE MARKANDEY KATJU AT NEWS CONFERENCE VARIOUS OF JOURNALISTS AT PRESS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) CHAIRMAN OF PRESS COUNCIL OF INDIA (PCI) AND FORMER JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT, JUSTICE MARKANDEY KATJU, SAYING: "Politicians must learn to accept criticism, politicians must learn how to behave, and this is wholly improper in the way politicians have acted in arresting Aseem Trivedi or arresting Siladitya Chowdhury in Bengal. This is not acceptable, politicians must learn how to behave, and they must accept criticism."
  • Embargoed: 25th September 2012 22:27
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  • Location: India
  • Country: India
  • Topics: Crime,Politics
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