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＜事件 No. IND001/0307/OBS017.1＞
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No.3928 インド：人権NGOの人権侵害調査に対して当局より嫌がらせが続いています。
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（ジュネーブ発 3月21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、インドにおける下記の状況に関して皆様の引き続きの働きかけをお願いします。
＜新情報＞
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釈放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のプロジェクト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、キリティ・ロイさんが代表と州のディレクターを兼任しています。
入手した情報によると、2007年3月15日にカルカッタ司法治安判事がゴペン・シャルマさんの保釈を決定したということです。しかし、この命令が地方裁判所に正しく伝達されるまで彼は待たされ、実際に釈放されたのは2007年3月20日でした。
監視機構は、シャルマさんのために行動してくださった個人および団体の皆さまにお礼申し上げます。しかし、彼が今もなおインド刑法第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年を求刑されていることを指摘します。
さらに監視機構は、ピープルズ・ウォッチNPPTのカルナタカ州クールグ地方の地方人権担当員であり、人権活動家であるシーラさんの夫のヴァサントさんが、2007年3月8日に恣意的に逮捕されたという情報を入手しました。ヴァサントさんは拷問事件の情報収集のためにカルナタカ州コダグ地方のメディケリ警察を訪問していた時に逮捕され、翌日、起訴なく保釈されました。彼は拘禁中に警官に殴打されたということです。
＜背景情報＞
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。
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。
この事件は、2007年2月1日にピープルズ・ウォッチの理事ヘンリ・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・コーディネータのビプラップ・ムケヘルジーさん、ゴペン・シャルマさんが、警察による村人の人権侵害事件の調査を行ったあとに起きました。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・シャルマさんとヴァサントさん並びに、ピープルズ・ウォッチとその関連プロジェクトで働いている個人の心身の安全を保障できるよう、必要な措置をすべてとること。
2．彼を公正で資格のある法廷に付し、その間、彼の手続き上の権利をすべて保障すること。
3．ヴァサントさんが受けた虐待の申し立てについて、実行者を特定し、法廷に付し、罪の重さに応じた判決を言い渡せるよう、公正で独立した調査を実施すること。
4．インドの人権擁護家すべてに対するあらゆる報復行為を止めること。
5．1998年12月9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項を守ること。
6．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って、人権尊重と基本的自由を保障すること。
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＜要請先＞
シン首相： Shri Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister of India
Prime Minister’s Office, Room number 152
South Block, New Delhi
Fax: + 91 11 2301 6857
州内務大臣： 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
最高裁判事：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
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
マニピュール州知事
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
マニピュ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
Fax: +91 385 410472.
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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 would like to express my concern over the situations of Mr. Gopen Sharma and Mr. Vasanth of People’s Watch, a human rights NGO. While it is good to know that Mr. Sharma was provisionally released, it disturbs me that Mr. Vasanth was arrested on March 8, 2007. 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 and Mr. Vasanth, as well as all individuals working for People’s Watch and its related projects;
2. To bring him before an impartial and competent tribunal, and guarantee his procedural rights at all times;
3. To conduct a fair, impartial and independent inquiry into the allegations of ill-treatment against Mr. Vasanth in order to identify the authors, bring them to justice and pronounce sentences proportional to the gravity of their crimes;
4. To put an end to any kind of reprisals against human rights defenders in India;
5. 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”;
6. 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
New information
IND 001 / 0307 / OBS 017.1
Release / Judicial proceedings
India
March 21, 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), has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in India.
New information:
The Observatory has been informed by People’s Watch of the release 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[1]. In the State of West Bengal, People’s Watch is implementing the NPPT in collaboration with MASUM, a human rights organisation involved in the denunciation of torture cases, headed by Mr. Kirity Roy, MASUM President, as its State Director.
According to the information received, on March 15, 2007, the Judicial Magistrate of Calcutta decided to release on bail Mr. Gopen Sharma. However, Mr. Sharma was effectively released on March 20, 2007, as he had to wait for the order to be correctly transmitted to the local district court.
The Observatory thanks all the persons, organisations, and institutions, that intervened in favour of Mr. Sharma. However, the Observatory recalls that he remains prosecuted 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.
Moreover, the Observatory has been informed of the arbitrary arrest of Mr. Vasanth, the husband of Ms. Shyla, District Human Rights Officer of People’s Watch NPPT, in the Coorg District of Karnataka, and also a human rights activist, on March 8, 2007. He was arrested while visiting the Medikeri Town Police Station in the Kodagu District of Karnataka in order to collect information on a torture case, before being released on bail and free of charge on the following day. He was reportedly beaten by the police while in custody.
Background information:
On February 8, 2007, Mr. Gopen Sharma had been arbitrarily 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).
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.
These events followed 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 and Mr. Vasanth, as well as all individuals working for People’s Watch and its related projects;
ii.bring him before an impartial and competent tribunal, and guarantee his procedural rights at all times;
iii.conduct a fair, impartial and independent inquiry into the allegations of ill-treatment against Mr. Vasanth in order to identify the authors, bring them to justice and pronounce sentences proportional to the gravity of their crimes;
iv.put an end to any kind of reprisals against human rights defenders in India;
v.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”;
vi.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 (6ème étage), 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 Chaussée 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, March 21, 2007
[1] People’s Watch is a human rights organisation involved in diverse field of activities in the nature of human rights monitoring, intervention and legal assistance, in particular in Tamil Nadu. People’s Watch also implements a project that is funded by the European Union, the “National Project on Prevention of Torture in India” (NPPT).
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