Withdraw the Charges against Journo Seema Mustafa

Press statement by the Delhi Union of Journalists…. The Delhi Union of Journalists to day called up on the Karnataka government to withdraw the sedition charges against senior journalist Seema Mustafa for moderating a meeting and singing songs. The meeting was called by the Amnesty International on August 16, at Bengaluru. In its first reaction in the Delhi Union of Journalists facebook page, yesterday itself the union said:

“Yesterday it was Kanhaiya,
Today Seema Mustafa.
Tomorrow who?
And when you?

(Remember Martin Niemöller….)

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak out for me.”

(S.K.Pande)                                            
President
(Sujata Madhok)
General Secretary