A number of commenters, activists and thinkers held a meeting in Chandigarh on Tuesday (Jan. 7) and condemned brutal attack by masked armed goons on JNU students.
Activists of various organisations of Punjab held a meeting at Kisan Bhawan Chandigarh to discuss the issue of crackdown on JNU students.
Expressing deep distress over the coverage of the Jawaharlal Nehru University row by Zee News, a producer of the mainstream Hindi news channel in India quitted the channel on February 19. Vishwa Deepak took to social networking site Facebook on Sunday to make his concerns public.
Dal Khalsa Tuesday condemned the arrest of former Delhi University lecturer S.A.R. Geelani under sedition charges for allegedly organising an event on February 10 to commemorate the death anniversary of Afzal Guru at Press Club of India.
While expressing its solidarity with JNU Students and Journalists who were attacked in Patiala house court US Based North American Punjabi Association (NAPA) demanded immediate suspension of Delhi Police Chief B.S.Bassi who totally failed to protect the Journalists in the court.
As per media reports [t]eachers and students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were threatened, attached and thrashed by a group of lawyers at Patiala House court in Delhi today as dozens of policemen watched. Some media-personnel were also manhandled.
Amritsar Sahib: Coming down heavily on Delhi police for invoking sedition charges against JNU students and Prof SAR Geelani for organizing events against the hanging of Afzal Guru, the Dal Khalsa blamed political as well as police establishment for hardly showing any respect for high court and Supreme Court verdicts vis-a-vis applying sedition charges against political dissidence.