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＜事件 No. IND001/0207/OBS017＞
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No.3915 インド人権NGOの拷問防止担当者が恣意的に逮捕されました。
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（ジュネーブ・パリ発 2月9日）
「国際人権連盟」(FIDH)と「SOSトーチャー」の共同プロジェクトである「人権擁護家保護のための監視機構」は、インドおける下記の状況に関して皆様の緊急の働きかけをお願いします。
＜事件の概要＞
人権擁護家のための監視機構は「ピープルズ・ウォッチ」より、同団体の「インド拷問防止全国プロジェクト(NPPT)」の地域人権担当者であるゴペン・シャルマさんが西ベンガルのムルシバダード地方で恣意的に逮捕されたという情報を入手しました。(1)ピープルズ・ウォッチは西ベンガルでMASUMという人権団体と協力してNPPTを実施していました。MASUMは拷問の告発を専門とする組織で、州のディレクターであるキリティ・ロイさんが代表をつとめています。
情報によると、ゴペン・シャルマさんは2007年2月8日に国境警備隊(BSF)のカハルパラ国境検問所の駐屯地を訪問していた時に警察に逮捕されました。シャルマさんは、国家人権委員会(NHRC)に告発があったBSFによると思われる3件の人権侵害事件について情報を収集するため訪問していました。
第1検問所でシャルマさんは見知らぬ人物に襲撃されました。この人物はアチント・サルカルという人で、同じ村の人がシャルマさんに金を貸していると主張しました。シャルマさんが地元の国境警備隊に助けを求めると、逆に拘禁され、逮捕に関する何の書類もシャルマさんに提示されないまま、すぐにランニナガル警察に引き渡されました。シャルマさんは警察に着くと、同じように逮捕されていた襲撃者を訴えました。しかし警察は訴えを受け取った時に行う手続である被害届の受理を行いませんでした。
逮捕された時、シャルマさんは警官の1人から、人権団体と協力して警察やBSFを告発していることをなじられ、脅され、侮辱されたということです。さらに警察はNHRCへの告発に関する記録や書類とシャルマさんの携帯電話を押収したということです。
この事件を知ったキリティ・ロイさんはランニナガル警察に連絡しました。ロイさんは警察からシャルマさんとアチント・サルカルさんの2人とも拘禁されていると言われました。
シャルマさんはインド刑法第420節（詐欺と不正に財産を運ばせる）と第468節（詐欺目的の偽造）、第471節（偽造書類の不正使用）にもとづいて起訴され、禁固10年を求刑されています。
2007年2月9日、シャルマさんはムルシダバード地方のラルバーの治安判事補佐による審理に出頭させられ、2007年2月22日まで司法拘留するという決定を受けました。シャルマさんの弁護士が出した保釈の陳情は却下されました。
監視機構はこの逮捕を憂慮し、シャルマさんの人権活動に対する制裁ではないかと危惧します。2007年2月1日にピープルズ・ウォッチの執行理事ヘンリ・ティパーネさん、キリティ・ロイさん、NPPTの西ベンガル州プログラム・コーディネーターのビプラップ・ムケヘルジーさん、ゴペン・シャルマさんによって行われた、警察による村人の人権侵害事件の調査のあとにこの事件が起きたことに留意する必要があります。この事実調査チームが現地に到着した時、国境警備隊のカイエル・タラ国境検問所の職員がチームの4人を脅し、嫌がらせをしました。
(1)ピープルズ・ウォッチはタミール・ナドゥ州で人権監視、介入、法的扶助などの幅広い人権活動を行っている人権団体です。ピープルズ・ウォッチはまた、EUが資金援助している「インド拷問防止全国プロジェクト(NPPT)」も実施しています。
＜行動要請＞
インド関係当局に以下の内容の要請をお願いします。
1．いかなる情況にあろうとも、ゴペン・シャルマさんの心身の安全を保障すること。
2．彼の拘禁は恣意的であるため、彼を即時無条件で釈放すること。
3．インドの人権擁護家に対するあらゆる形態の報復行為を中止すること。
4．1998年12月8日に国連総会が採択した人権擁護家に関する宣言の条文、とりわけ、「すべての人は、人権と基本的自由を国内および国際レベルで促進および保護する権利を、個別におよび集団的に所有する」とした第１条と、「国家は、個別であれ他者との合同であれ、すべての人が、本宣言に記述されている権利の合法的行使の結果により受ける、暴力、脅迫、報復、事実上あるいは法律上の差別、圧力あるいはその他の恣意的行為から資格ある当局の保護を受けるよう保障するために、あらゆる必要な措置をとるものとする」とした第12条2項にしたがうこと。
5．世界人権宣言およびインドが批准した国際人権文書にしたがい、国内全土における人権尊重と基本的自由を保障すること。
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＜要請先＞
首相： Shri Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister of India
Prime Minister’s Office, Room number 152
South Block, New Delhi India
Fax: + 91 11 2301 6857
内務大臣：Shri Shivraj Patil
Union Minister of Home Affairs
Ministry of Home Affairs, 104-107 North Block
New Delhi 110 001 India
Fax: +91 11 2309 2979
最高裁長官：Justice Mr. Y.K. Sabharwal
Chief Justice of India, Supreme Court of India
1 Tilak Marg, New Delhi, India
Fax: +91 11 233 83792
Email: supremecourt@nic.in
国家人権委員会委員長
Justice A.S. Anand
Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission of India
Faridkot House, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi 110 001
Fax: +91 11 2334 0016, Email: chairnhrc@nic.in
マニプール州知事：
Mr. Okram Ibobi Singh
Chief Minister of Manipur
Chief Minister’s Secretariat
Babupara, Imphal, Manipur India
Email: cmmani@hub.nic.in
マニプール州人権委員会委員長
Justice W. A. Shishak
Chairperson, Manipur State Human Rights Commission
Courts Complex Lamphelpat, Imphal
Manipur, India
国連大使：H.E. Mr. Swashpawan Singh
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative
to the United Nations (Geneva),
Rue du Valais 9 (6?me ?tage), 1202 Geneva Switzerland
Fax: +41 22 906 86 96
Email: mission.india@ties.itu.int
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例文を添付いたします。手紙を出されるときにご活用ください。
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Shri Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister of India
Prime Minister’s Office, Room number 152
South Block, New Delhi
India
Dear Prime Minister Singh,
I am writing you to express my concern over the detention of Mr. Gopen Sharma, District Human Rights Officer of People’s Watch’s “National Project on Prevention of Torture in India” (NPPT), in the Murshidabad District of West Bengal. I would like to urge you the followings:
1. To take all necessary measures to guarantee, in all circumstances, the physical and psychological integrity of Mr. Gopen Sharma;
2. To release him immediately and unconditionally, as his detention is arbitrary;
3. To put an end to any kind of reprisals against human rights defenders in India;
4. To comply with the provisions of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 9, 1998, in particular article 1, which states that “everyone has the right, individually or collectively, to promote the protection and fulfilment of human rights and fundamental freedoms at the national and international levels”, as well as article 12.2, which provides that “the State shall take all necessary measures to ensure the protection by the competent authorities of everyone, individually or in association with others, against any violence, threats, retaliation, de facto or de jure adverse discrimination, pressure or any other arbitrary action as a consequence of his or her legitimate exercise of the rights referred to in the present Declaration”;
5. To guarantee the respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms in accordance with the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and other international human rights instruments ratified by India.
I thank you for your kind attention to my request.
Yours truly,
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＜以下、原文＞
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URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY
IND 001 / 0207 / OBS 017
Arbitrary detention / Judicial proceedings /
Harassment
India
February 9, 2007
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in India.
Brief description of the situation:
The Observatory has been informed by People’s Watch of the arbitrary detention of Mr. Gopen Sharma, District Human Rights Officer of People’s Watch’s “National Project on Prevention of Torture in India” (NPPT), in the Murshidabad District of West Bengal . In the State of West Bengal, People’s Watch is implementing the NPPT in collaboration with MASUM, a human rights organisation specialised in denouncing torture cases, headed by Mr. Kirity Roy, MASUM President, as its State Director.
According to the information received, on February 8, 2007, Mr. Gopen Sharma was arrested by police officers while visiting the Kaharpara Border Out Post of the Border Security Force (BSF) camp in order to collect information on three cases of human rights violations that would have been committed by the BSF, following complaints lodged to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).
At the Out Post n°1, Mr. Sharma was suddenly assaulted by an unknown individual, Mr. Achinto Sarkar, who argued that one of his co-villager would owe him some money. As Mr. Sharma asked for protection to the local BSF, he was instead taken into custody and immediately handed over to Ranninagar Police Station, where no memo of the arrest was shown to Mr. Gopen Sharma. When arrived at the police station, Mr. Gopen Sharma lodged a complaint against his assailant, who was then also arrested. Yet, the police did not register a First Information Report (FIR), which is the actual registering of a case when receiving a complaint.
During his arrest, Mr. Gopen Sharma was reportedly threatened and insulted by a police officer, who accused him of filing complaints with human rights groups against the police and the BSF. In addition, the police seized all documents and papers regarding the complaints to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and Mr. Gopen Sharma’s mobile phone.
When informed about these facts, Mr. Kirity Roy contacted the Ranninagar Police Station. He was then told that both Mr. Gopen Sharma and Mr. Achinto Sarkar had been placed in custody.
Mr. Gopen Sharma was reportedly charged under sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (using as genuine a forged document), of the Indian Penal Code, and faces up to ten years’ imprisonment.
On February 9, 2007, Mr. Gopen Sharma appeared before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate of Lalbagh, Murshidabad, who decided to send Mr. Gopen Sharma to judicial remand until February 22, 2007. In addition, the bail petition that Mr. Sharma’s lawyer had lodged on his behalf was rejected.
The Observatory expresses its deep concern about this arrest, and fears that it could be a pretext to sanction Mr. Sharma’s activities in favour of human rights. It is worth noting that these events follow a fact-finding mission carried out on February 1, 2007 by Mr. Henri Tiphagne, Executive Director of People’s Watch, Mr. Kirity Roy, Mr. Biplap Mukherjee, State Programme Coordinator of the NPPT for West Bengal, and Mr. Gopen Sharma, to make inquiries into human rights violations perpetrated by police officers against local villagers. When the fact-finding team reached the area, the BSF staff at the BSF Khayer Tala Border Out Post threatened and harassed the four human rights activists.
Action requested:
Please write to the Indian authorities and ask them to :
i. take all necessary measures to guarantee, in all circumstances, the physical and psychological integrity of Mr. Gopen Sharma;
ii. release him immediately and unconditionally, as his detention is arbitrary;
iii. put an end to any kind of reprisals against human rights defenders in India;
iv. comply with the provisions of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 9, 1998, in particular article 1, which states that “everyone has the right, individually or collectively, to promote the protection and fulfilment of human rights and fundamental freedoms at the national and international levels”, as well as article 12.2, which provides that “the State shall take all necessary measures to ensure the protection by the competent authorities of everyone, individually or in association with others, against any violence, threats, retaliation, de facto or de jure adverse discrimination, pressure or any other arbitrary action as a consequence of his or her legitimate exercise of the rights referred to in the present Declaration”;
v. guarantee the respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms in accordance with the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and other international human rights instruments ratified by India.
Addresses:
- Ranninagar Police Station, Tel: +91-3481-238038. Mr. Sunayan Basu, Officer-in-Charge of Ranninagar Police Station, Tel: + 91 9732745592.
- Mr. Rahul Srivastava, Superintendent of Police of District Murshidabad, Mobile phone: + 91 9434750751.
- Shri Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, Prime Minister’s Office, Room number 152, South Block, New Delhi, Fax: + 91 11 2301 6857
- Shri Shivraj Patil, Union Minister of Home Affairs, Ministry of Home Affairs, 104-107 North Block, New Delhi 110 001 India, Fax: +91 11 2309 2979
- Justice Mr. Y.K. Sabharwal, Chief Justice of India, Supreme Court of India, 1 Tilak Marg, New Delhi, Fax: +91 11 233 83792, Email: supremecourt@nic.in
- Justice A.S. Anand, Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission of India, Faridkot House, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi 110 001, Tel: +91 11 230 74448, Fax: +91 11 2334 0016, Email: chairnhrc@nic.in
- Mr. Okram Ibobi Singh, Chief Minister of Manipur, Chief Minister’s Secretariat, Babupara, Imphal, Manipur, Fax: +91 385 222 1817, Email: cmmani@hub.nic.in
- Justice W. A. Shishak, Chairperson, Manipur State Human Rights Commission, Courts Complex Lamphelpat, Imphal, Manipur, India, Fax: +91 385 410472.
- H.E. Mr. Swashpawan Singh, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative to the United Nations (Geneva), Rue du Valais 9 (6?me ?tage), 1202 Geneva, Tel: +41 22 906 86 86, Fax: +41 22 906 86 96, Email: mission.india@ties.itu.int
- Mr. Dipak Chatterjee, Ambassador, Embassy of India in Brussels, 217 Chauss?e de Vleurgat, 1050 Brussels, Belgium, Fax: +32 (0)2 6489638 or +32 (0)2 6451869
Please also write to the diplomatic representations of India in your respective countries.
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Geneva - Paris, February 9, 2007
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