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