Alappuzha: Police have detained twelve others, including watch tower editor Siraj Joseph, who had come to report on the young Jyoti KCYM activists who had come to protest against the controversial book of a nun who was expelled from the monastery. KCYM complained that the police had arrested the protesters without any provocation. The indifference of the journalists is undoubtedly due to the suspicion that Lucy’s sponsored program of the Alappuzha Press Club’s seminar titled ‘Human Rights and Media’.
KCYM diocese president MJ Dasgupta said the arrests of activists were an attempt by the police to break the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of assembly and protest. Emmanuel alleged. After he was released from the station as part of the protest, the controversial book was symbolically burnt. The human rights violation is aimed at those who came to protest peacefully on Human Rights Day with no banners, flags or other deadly weapons.
