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People’s Tribunal Threatened in Orissa
July 1, 2005 | Comments Off on People’s Tribunal Threatened in Orissa
Students and supporters of the People’s Tribunal of Orissa have started an online petition
in protest against the Sangh Parivar’s violent targeting of the Indian
People’s Tribunal on Environment and Human Rights (IPT) on June 14,
2005, in Orissa, where the Tribunal was conducting hearings to
investigate issues of communalism. During a hearing with Hindu
nationalist organizations, a fax arrived from the Vishwa Hindu
Parishad-Orissa, which made libellous and defamatory claims against the
Tribunal members and process. After the arrival of this fax, Sangh
Parivar members threatened Tribunal members (including the threat to
rape and parade naked the female members), and sought to seize
information gathered during the investigations. For more information
about the threats.
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