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Kerala Blogger and Magazine Editor Jailed

P. Govindan Kutty found himself in jail for more than two months. He blogs at People’s March and is the publisher, owner and the editor of the magazine People’s March. Despite the inability of the Kerala police in producing any evidence against him, his bail was repeatedly rejected for more than a month in both the trial court and the high court. The only charge against him was that he wrote an article that hailed an attack on then AP CM Chandra Babu Naidu by CPI (Maoist) in 2004.

Anoop Saha brings our attention to this gross violation of free speech and attempts at media censorship. People protesting against the gag order on Raj Thackeray, will you please also protest against Kutty’s imprisonment given your new-found interest in free speech regardless of the fact that you agree with his writings or not?

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Prateek
March 8th, 2008, 1:44 am | #

This is ridiculous, what can we do about this? Can we start a fund to pay for a lawyer?

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