{"id":53,"date":"2005-07-01T20:15:12","date_gmt":"2005-07-02T00:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2005\/07\/01\/peoples-tribunal-threatened-in-oriss"},"modified":"2005-07-01T20:15:12","modified_gmt":"2005-07-02T00:15:12","slug":"peoples-tribunal-threatened-in-orissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2005\/07\/01\/peoples-tribunal-threatened-in-orissa\/","title":{"rendered":"People&#8217;s Tribunal Threatened in Orissa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a433'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Students and supporters of the People&#x2019;s Tribunal of Orissa have started an online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/ipt1\/petition.html\">petition<\/a><br \/>\nin protest against the Sangh Parivar&#8217;s violent targeting of the Indian<br \/>\nPeople&#8217;s Tribunal on Environment and Human Rights (IPT) on June 14,<br \/>\n2005, in Orissa, where the Tribunal was conducting hearings to<br \/>\ninvestigate issues of communalism. During a hearing with Hindu<br \/>\nnationalist organizations, a fax arrived from the Vishwa Hindu<br \/>\nParishad-Orissa, which made libellous and defamatory claims against the<br \/>\nTribunal members and process. After the arrival of this fax, Sangh<br \/>\nParivar members threatened Tribunal members (including the threat to<br \/>\nrape and parade naked the female members), and sought to seize<br \/>\ninformation gathered during the investigations. For more information<br \/>\nabout the threats.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students and supporters of the People&#x2019;s Tribunal of Orissa have started an online petition in protest against the Sangh Parivar&#8217;s violent targeting of the Indian People&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}