Cartoonist Held For Seditious Posters Sent To Jail

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[size=4]Charged with sedition, Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi was on Monday sent to jail for two weeks by a Mumbai court after police said it did not require his custody anymore two days after his arrest that has sparked an outrage.[/size][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans][size=3]
[size=4]Twivedi, 25, himself did not apply for bail in the case until the sedition charge, for which maximum punishment is life imprisonment, was dropped, even as the Maharashtra government sought to distance itself from the case.[/size][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans][size=3]
[size=4]He was arrested in Mumbai on Saturday under IPC Section 124 (sedition), section 66 A of Information Technology Act and section 2 of Prevention of Insults to Nation Honour Act. He was on Sunday remanded in police custody till September 16.[/size][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans][size=3]
[size=4]Producing Trivedi before a Bandra court, police said their investigations in the case were over and his custodial interrogation was not needed. The court remanded Trivedi in judicial custody till September 24.[/size][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans][size=3]
[size=4]The Kanpur-based artist has been accused of putting up banners mocking the Constitution during a rally of anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare in Mumbai late last year and posting the same on his website.[/size][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans][size=3]
[size=4]Trivedi was arrested on the basis of a complaint filed by a member of Republican Party of India, Amit Katarnayea.[/size][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans][size=3]
[size=4]"I am not seeking bail because I am proud of whatever I did, and this I will do it repeatedly. I am not a criminal that I should deposit money and seek bail, but till the time the charges of sedition are not dropped against me, I will continue to be in jail," said a statement in Hindi purported to be written by Trivedi in jail.[/size][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans][size=3]
[size=4]The statement was circulated outside the Court by volunteers of India Against Corruption (IAC), which organized Hazare's rally last year. Scores of Trivedi's supporters had gathered at the court premises.[/size][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans][size=3]
[size=4]Clad in black kurta and jeans, Trivedi was brought to the court in the afternoon.[/size][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans][size=3]
[size=4]As the arrest sparked condemnation by some political parties and activists, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said though the Constitution ensures freedom of expression it also lays down that every citizen must respect the national symbols.[/size][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial, verdana, sans-serif, FreeSans][size=3]
[size=4]Communist Party of India (Marxist) said it was "outrageous" that a sedition charge had been slapped with for drawing cartoons against corruption while the Congress said the arrest of Trivedi was a bit of an overstretch.[/size][/size][/font][/color]

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His stmt from Jail

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volunteers of India Against Corruption (which organised Hazare's rally last year) had gathered to support Trivedi. One of them distributed copies of a statement purported to be written by Trivedi in jail.[/size][/font][font=Georgia,][size=4]
The statement read, "If telling the truth is against the country, then I am a traitor....If raising voice against injustice is against the country then I am a traitor..If the definition's of 'Patriot' and 'Traitor' have changed in the course of time, then I am a traitor".[/size][/font][font=Georgia,][size=4]
"I oppose disrespect shown to the Constitution. I believe in the Constitution as well as Dr B R Ambedkar. Seeing disrespect to the Constitution pains me and I am trying to stop this through my cartoons," the statement in Hindi said.[/size][/font][font=Georgia,][size=4]
"I am following the path shown by Mahatma Gandhi and serving the nation...Do not get bothered seeing me inside the jail. Remember, Anna Hazare has said that one should go to jail for the sake of nation.[/size][/font][font=Georgia,][size=4]
According to the statement, Trivedi said he was not seeking bail because he was proud of whatever he did and he will do it repeatedly.[/size][/font][font=Georgia,][size=4]
"I am not a criminal that I should deposit money and seek bail, but till the time the charges of sedition are not dropped against me, I will continue to be in jail", the statement added.[/size][/font]

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[url="http://www.andhrafriends.com/topic/334801-release-aseem-trivedi/"]http://www.andhrafriends.com/topic/334801-release-aseem-trivedi/[/url]

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