People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS)
Date of Release: 6 February 2015
People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism (PADS) joins all
freedom loving people in denouncing the attempts to harass Ms. Shirin
Dalvi, the reputed editor of the Urdu daily, Avadhanama, Mumbai in the
name of hurting religious sentiments of Muslims. She had published a
news story on the Charlie Hebdo massacre and republished a cover of the
French magazine. Though she has apologized and stated that she did not
have any intention to hurt religious sentiments of anybody she, however,
has been charged with several different cases offences and even
arrested. The newspaper she works for has had to close down and all its
employees have been deprived of their jobs. All this is happening in the
name of someone’s sentiments.
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