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Protest, candle light vigil demanding release
of journalist Kazmi
Monday March 12, 2012 11:29:28 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Social
activists and journalists Monday sat on protest at India Gate here
and organised a candle light vigil demanding the release of
journalist Syed Mohammad Kazmi arrested for the Israeli embassy
car blast last month.
The procession of about nearly 500 people was led by Kazmi's wife
Jahanara who claimed that her husband "is innocent and should be
released immediately".
The protesters claimed that Kazmi, 52, was implicated and shouted
anti-US and anti-Israel slogans.
Activist Shabnam Hashmi said that police "fabricated the entire
story" and called for immediate dissolution of Delhi Police's
anti-terror unit Special Cell.
"A group of journalists and activists, met the chief minister
(Sheila Dikshit) and spoke to her on the issue. She told us that
she will be meeting home minister (P. Chidambaram) and discussing
the matter with him," Hashmi added.
The protest was also attended by several Muslim religious leaders
which, Hashmi claimed, was against the spirit of the protest as it
was a secular protest and they had come without invitation.
Her sentiments were echoed by senior journalist Syed Naqvi, who
claimed that this could "politicise what is a people's protest".
Kazmi was arrested by police last week. The journalist, who hails
from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, is a resident of south Delhi's B.K.
Dutt colony near Jor Bagh.
A post-graduate in Persian from Delhi University, Kazmi has worked
as a freelance journalist with Doordarshan News. He has also
worked as a news reader for a Tehran-based radio station and was
recently working as a freelancer for Iranian news agency IRNA.
An Israeli diplomat's wife was
injured in the blast in the Israeli embassy's car Feb 13 in
central Delhi.
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