ViBGYOR Film Collective, on 7 June, condemned the fabricated charges levelled against five reputed cultural film and media persons of Kerala who along with others were protesting the concept of capital punishment and the surreptitious manner in which Afzal Guru was hanged. Recently the Kerala police has arrested K.P Sasi, renowned filmmaker and activist, I Shanmukhadas, a well-known film critic, Prasannakumar TN, a film activist, Shafeek, a young journalist and Deepak, a filmmaker and charged them with ‘rioting’, ‘unlawful assembly’ and ‘public obstruction’ (IPC Sections 143, 147, 149 and 283) for participating in a peaceful protest which occurred on 11 February, 2013 at Thrissur, Kerala. These citizens along with a few dozens of writers, filmmakers and activists were protesting the very concept of capital punishment and the surreptitious manner in which Afzal Guru was accorded death penalty.
FILM FRATERNITY PROTESTS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
ViBGYOR Film Collective, on 7 June, condemned the fabricated charges levelled against five reputed cultural film and media persons of Kerala who along with others were protesting the concept of capital punishment and the surreptitious manner in which Afzal Guru was hanged.
