Release Sapan Dasgupta and others

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Mr Sapan Dasgupta, the editor, publisher and owner of BANGLA PEOPLES MARCHA magazine had been arrested by Kolkata Police on Tuesday, the 6th October, 2009. The charge of being a Maoist has been slapped on him. The magazine is having a proper, legal and valid registration number(VB.ben/2004/15681) and it is being published regularly once in a month for the last 5 years. The arrest of Mr Sapan Dasgupta is a blatant violation of the rights of freedom of expression, thoughts and listening to other voices. The state government of West Bengal in recent times has been indiscriminately and brazenly using the Maoist ploy to suppress all the voices of opposition. We can hear the footfalls of Emergency of 1975 in these acts of the state. We strongly condemn the attempt of the Government to deny its citizen the democratic rights. We demand immediate release of Mr Sapan Dasgupta and Sadananda Sinha, the owner of the printing press and urge the Government to dissuade from all acts of suppression and oppression against the magazines and press as a whole.

Conveners
Little Magazine Somonnoy Mancha

35 Signatures

  • saswati ghosh
  • Dhiman
    • Comments
    • We should demand release of not only Mr. Dasgupta but also all people falsely implicated by the State
  • soumya guhathakurta
    • Comments
    • this is a state of emergency that the big press/media will not acknowledge
  • Dipankar Chakrabarti(Editor,Aneek)
    • Comments
    • The undersigned had also been arrested and kept behind the bars without trial for almost two years during the Emergency of 1975-77,simply because of his `crime' that he was (and still now is) the editor of a Bengali journal upholding Marxism-Leninism,Mao Tse-tung Thought. Naturally I endorse the statement fully and wholeheartedly.
  • Shamik Sarkar
    • Comments
    • Stop attacking little magazines and little printing press
  • Asoke P. Chattopadhyay
  • amit bhaduri
  • Rabin Chakraborty
    • Comments
    • В
  • Sankar Ray
    • Comments
    • Funny is the action. Employees' Forum, monthly of All India State Government Employees- Federation whose secretary-general Sukomal Sen, CPI(M) central committee member, used to be oublished there.It's mischievous to placate Dasgupta and another man as Maoist. The hypocrite chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee must answer.
  • Amiya Dev
  • Rukmini Sen, WBNUJS, Kolkata
  • Pinaki
  • Partha Sen
  • Atreyi Dasgupta
  • sankha bhowmick
  • P.T. Manolakos
  • NABA DUTTA
  • ravi
    • Comments
    • В
  • Siddhartha Mitra
    • Comments
    • В
  • sumit sarkar
  • Santanu Chacraverti
  • C S Bhattacharjee
    • Comments
    • This is nothing but gagging thought process.
  • Andaleeb
    • Comments
    • Why does the government fear the pen so much?
  • Arunanshu Bhattacharya
    • Comments
    • this shame for our nation
  • Sirisha Naidu
    • Comments
    • В
  • Sudipto Muhuri
    • Comments
    • В
  • Suvarup Saha
  • Koel Das
  • Debarshi Das
  • dipanjan rai chaudhuri
  • Bibhash Chakraborty
    • Comments
    • Siddhartha after 'nirvana' became Buddha.
  • Atanu Roy
    • Comments
    • I am protesting against this arrest of Mr Sapan Dasgupta and demand his immediate release
  • Guruprasad Kar
    • Comments
    • This is one of the facist attacks that the government is making on its citizen. I demand unconditional release of these persons.
  • Anindya Bhattacharya
    • Comments
    • We demand unconditional release of Swapan Dasgupta.. This is an attack on the freedom of press and freedom of expression..