Geelani, Arundhati to be booked under sedition charge

[Spring Onion]

Best thing would be hang both of them and it will be lesson to every one.

Try that. Their blood and sacrifice will give more light to freedom movements against Indian state terrorism invasion

 

[Markus]

Try that. Their blood and sacrifice will give more light to freedom movements against Indian state terrorism invasion

Donno abt Geelani but Arundhati deserves to feel some fresh prison air.

 

[jha]

kahe ka tention lena..Bihar bhej do doure pe...road bahut kharab hai..Kuch bhi ho sakta hai..

 

[luckyyy]

freedom of speech didn't give the freedom to abuse..

 

[Markus]

Who will draw the line between freedom of speech and attention seekers?

 

[Spring Onion]

kahe ka tention lena..Bihar bhej do doure pe...road bahut kharab hai..Kuch bhi ho sakta hai..

So out of frustration you bhartis are advocating assassination of Arundhati and Kashmir leader Gilani.

This shows they are right and you are wrong

 

[Omar1984]

indians themselves will make Arundhati Roy the Gandhi of today's subcontinent.



New Delhi: There is little that Arundhati Roy has in common with Mahatma Gandhi. If Delhi police books the writer-activist for her remarks on Jammu and Kashmir, she will join a league of eminent people booked under the controversial law for acts of defiance against the state.

During his sedition trial in 1922, Mahatma Gandhi had said “Section 124 A, under which I am happily charged, is perhaps the prince among the political sections of the Indian Penal Code designed to suppress the liberty of the citizen.”

The law defines Section 124A of IPC as “whoever by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or otherwise, brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards, the Government established by law in India can be booked under sedition.”

In his trial Gandhi has clearly stated that if one had “no affection for a person or system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence.”

“Some of the most loved of India’s patriots have been convicted under it. I consider it a privilege, therefore, to be charged under that section,” he said.

However, with the establishment of a sovereign, democratic, republic, and shifting definitions of “affection” for the state, civil rights activists are questioning the relevance of sedition laws in a post-colonial India.

While Gandhi is termed a patriot for defying sedition laws, should Roy be charged under it for voicing her opinion on alleged military excesses in Kashmir?

Social activists have slammed Section 124A as “draconian”, pitching for freedom of speech and expression in a non-military state.

Comments expressing disapprobation of the administrative or other action of the Government without exciting or attempting to excite hatred, contempt or disaffection, do not constitute an offence under section 124 A of IPC.

Activists claim that governments have time and again abused the sedition law to prosecute political dissenters. There have been allegations of misuse of the law by the Punjab police for many years. Pamphleteering in the name of Jarnail Singh Bhinadranwale landed many Punjab youths in jail under sedition laws.

Political analysts and social activists now demand that the scope of the law be expanded to protect free speech.

The ‘Free Speech Hub’, an initiative of the media watch website ‘The Hoot’, which seeks to monitor instances of attacks and threats to the freedom of speech and expression, claimed in a report in May this year that democracy was under threat with repeated instances of attacks on the media.

Activists argue that sedition cases rarely stand in a court of law and that there should be clear demarcation between offences committed by cross-border terrorists opening fire on innocent citizens and citizens voicing dissatisfaction with governance. They should not fall under the purview of one common law.

The government maintains that peacefully making pro-Azadi speeches does not amount to sedition but inciting hatred through inflammatory oratory in an already emotionally charged atmosphere in the Valley may lead to violence.

Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily slammed Roy’s speech as “unfortunate” and said "Freedom of speech cannot violate the patriotic sentiments of the people and country.”

Booker winning author Roy’s speeches are also replicated in several Pakistani websites.



Gandhi Vs Arundhati Roy: patriotic or seditious? - India News - IBNLive

 

[Markus]

So out of frustration you bhartis are advocating assassination of Arundhati and Kashmir leader Gilani.

This shows they are right and you are wrong

Out of frustration, the Americans are planning assassination of TTP and Taliban leaders so are the AMericans wrong and Taliban right?

What Jana?

 

[third eye]

It would be best to ignore them .

Making martyrs of them will not help. That is what they want by courting death.

 

[flex]

So out of frustration you bhartis are advocating assassination of Arundhati and Kashmir leader Gilani.

This shows they are right and you are wrong

so ppl who claim to overtake pakistan,and those who look for freedom of bal'stan are right.

 

[Spring Onion]

Out of frustration, the Americans are planning assassination of TTP and Taliban leaders so are the AMericans wrong and Taliban right?

What Jana?

so you are comparing peaceful Arundhati the award winning writer with Terrorists ???

I thought you will come up with logical reasons not wrong comparison

 

[Markus]

so you are comparing peaceful Arundhati the award winning writer with Terrorists ???

I thought you will come up with logical reasons not wrong comparison

No No - I am not comparing terrorists with award winning Arundhati rofl

I am just using ur logic that since we are advocating death penalty for her, so we are wrong (u used that logic in ur post above)

By that logic, the Americans are also wrong since they are advocating death for Taliban

 

[KS]

Executing Arundhati Roy, a multi-award winning writer would be a big mistake.

If you don't like her, we would gladly call her our own.

Puhleeez.....If you can arrange for her citizenship ,I am willing to pay for her ticket to Islamabad, First Class.

so you are comparing peaceful Arundhati the award winning writer with Terrorists ???

I thought you will come up with logical reasons not wrong comparison

Jana Beware...TTP might sue you in court for defamation charges mentioning with Suzanne Arundati.

 

[1971Tragedy]

come on guys,even she shouts yell, nothing won't change...
if india wouldhave given out a state bcoz of this people,then india will not there be at all....
she just wants attention thats all,after some day she shut her own mouth...

 

[Tshering22]

But still... she deserves a bullet between her eyes for dis-respecting the thousands of jawans who give their lives everyday for this country. She should be dragged by her hair all the way from her house to Amar Jawan Jyoti and shot dead there, covered by all of media.

This would send a message that any traitors in the country will be given the same treatment. Democracy is not Supreme universal order; we can modify it to suit our country's final and ONLY goal: India's National Interests.