Condemn the Cold Blooded Execution of Afzal Guru by the state: Resolution adopted at the Second ShahidAzmi Memorial Lecture, 9th February 2013
This House condemns in no uncertain terms the hanging of Afzal Guru by stealth and in secrecy, disallowing him the last judicial resort that was due to him. We condemn the callous denial to Afzal Guru the last opportunity to meet with his family members.
There is ample documentation to demonstrate that Afzal Guru’s trial was vitiated; that his legal defence was compromised; that fabricated and forged evidence was submitted to, and accepted by the court, the highest of which, admitted while sentencing him to death that this was done to satisfy the ‘collective conscience of the nation’.
We strongly oppose the cold-blooded execution of Afzal Guru in our name.
Signatories/-
Vrinda Grover, Senior Advocate, Delhi
YugMohitChaudhary, Senior Advocate, Mumbai
ManishaSethi, SangamitraSanghamitraMisra, TanweerFazal and RahulGovind, JTSA
V Suresh, KavitaSrivasta, Ravi Kiran Jain & MahtabAlam, PUCL
UshaRamanathan, Legal Researcher
Harsh Mandar, AmanBiradiri
MahmoodFarooqui, Writer
AnushaRizvi, Filmmaker
Dilnawaz Pasha, Journalist
ShwetaGhosh, Filmmaker
Aporvanand, DU
AftabAlam, DU
Kalaiyavasan, JNU
PriyankaVarma
Peggy Mohan, Linguist and author
Meera Ahmad, Anthropologist
MukulDube, Writer-Editor
Iqbal Ahmad, Journalist
Madhuresh Kumar, NAPM
Mona Das, DU
SadiqNaqvi, Journalist
Inteshar Ahmad
BinnoSen
Neenu Suresh
Prashanto Chandra Sen
Mirtyunjay, Student for Resistance
Mdwasim
AsadAshraf, jamiamilliaislamia
Mayur Suresh, Advocate
G AnamdaSelam, Advocate
Kaveri Gill
KiranBhatty
DaanishHussain, actor
Prince Jindal
SeemaMisra
Sohail Akbar
Shalini Gera, Activist
MonuKohar
G. Venkatesan, CHRI
Mary Abraham, Ambedkar University
BhawanaMahajan
Raja Bagga
P C Sen
KusumLata, SFR
Jitendra Kumar, JNU
S. Prabu
S. SethuMahendran
Kathipavan. N, DU
K.S.M. VimalKanth
SuchiChaudhary
Nasiruddin, Journalist
ChitraChaudhry
SawmiyaRajaran, JNU
SriranjiniVadiraj
ShreyaGhosh
JeevikaShiv
GauriJagdale
SuroorMander
DheerajPandey
SahbaSaiyyad
ManishaPandey, Journalist
ShahnawazMalik, Journalist
Malathi M
Anisha Raman
G. S. Anuj Kumar