Arundhati Roy charged with sedition - the hypocrisy of Indian Democracy - the reality of the empty shell of Indian Democracy revealed in the closing first decade of the 21st century

Report from Indian Express

Writer Arundhati Roy, Hurriyat leader Sayed Ali Shah Geelani and others were today booked on charges of sedition by Delhi Police for their "anti-India" speech at a seminar here last month.

The filing of the FIR came following a directive from a local court on Saturday on a petition filed by Sushil Pandit who alleged that Geelani and Roy made anti-India speeches at a conference on Azadi-the Only Way on October 21, a senior police official said.

Roy and others were charged under sections 124A (sedition), 153A (promoting enmity between classes), 153B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration), 504 (insult intended to provoke breach of peace) and 505 (false statement, rumour circulated with intent to cause mutiny or offence against public peace..

Democracy and Class Struggle calls for the immediate dropping of the sedition charges against Arundhati Roy and other speakers at the recent meeting on Azadi the Only Way in New Delhi.

There is a petition calling for the defence of Arundhati Roy at:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stoppersecutionroy99/

However this petition needs to be updated in light of current events, please notify Democracy and Class Struggle of any new petition to drop these charges against Arundhati Roy and other speakers at  New Delhi Conference.

Here is Arundhati Roy speaking at New Delhi Conference: Azadi the Only Way which led to the sedition charge.

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.com/2010/10/arundhati-at-delhi-conference-on.html

Arundhati Roy speaks up for us now we must speak up for her .