[governance] Freedom of speech issue FB and Shaheen Dadha

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Aware. I suppose suspending the police officers for a week or so and arresting the party goons that vandalized the hospital owned by one of the girls uncles before bailing them out is easier than amending the law

Media and social media raising a stink about this case helped i guess

--srs (htc one x)


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From: "Chaitanya Dhareshwar" <chaitanyabd at gmail.com>
To: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <suresh at hserus.net>
Cc: "governance at lists.igcaucus.org" <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
Subject: [governance] Freedom of speech issue FB and Shaheen Dadha
Date: Sat, Nov 24, 2012 1:40 PM


FYI Suresh, "Following the widespread outrage, *Chief Minister* Prithviraj
Chavan *ordered an enquiry* into the arrest" - a major change from the
status quo. Do also read the news coverage you'll note this is different
from the earlier - what used to happen before is a general blind eye from
the authorities.

My point is that the government is becoming more online-media aware than
ever before which is a huge step forward for India.

-C

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<suresh at hserus.net>wrote:

> Not particularly new and mostly driven by political parties trawling
> through fb for criticism of their leaders and randomly lodging police
> complaints... This is across the board and not particular to any one Indian
> political party
>
> --srs (htc one x)
>
>
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Chaitanya Dhareshwar" <chaitanyabd at gmail.com>
> To: <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
> Subject: [governance] Freedom of speech issue FB and Shaheen Dadha
> Date: Sat, Nov 24, 2012 1:04 PM
>
>
> India is progressing, a bit at a time. Freedom of speech is being
> recognized on web media as a positive and appreciated by the community at
> large.
>
> If this of interest do feel free to sign the petition on change.org (link
> below).
>
> Best regards,
> Chaitanya
>
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> From: Mukut Ray <mail at change.org>
> Date: Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:52 AM
> Subject: UPDATE: FBarrest
> To: chaitanyabd at gmail.com
>
>
> Dear Chaitanya,
>
> *Our pressure is working!*
> Following the widespread outrage, *Chief Minister* Prithviraj Chavan
> *ordered
> an enquiry* into the arrest of Shaheen & Renu for posting a comment on
>
> Facebook. The inquiry report has now been submitted to the DGP of
> Maharashtra, who has "forwarded it to the home department for necessary
> actions."
>
> *More than 19,000 people have signed the petition in just 4 days and this
>
> has added to the pressure on the
> authorities.*<
> http://www.change.org/petitions/drop-charges-against-shaheen-and-renu-for-comments-about-mumbai-shutdown-fbarrest?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=13920&alert_id=waWBhkkziA_gyfcmInHMp
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>
> A group of concerned citizens are *trying to meet the Chief Minister before
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