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Coalition Against Genocide media advisory - Rep. Joe Pitts press conference on Narendra Modi 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  

Dec 3, 2012 


Coalition Against Genocide (CAG - http://coalitionagainstgenocide.org/), a broad alliance dedicated to justice and accountability for the Gujarat pogrom of 2002, will be holding a press a conference at Capitol Hill, Washington DC to announce bipartisan support from members of the US Congress to continue the ban on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's entry to the US.

Modi was Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2002 when organized sectarian violence resulted in the killing of 2,000 people and the displacement of over 150,000. Modi has also engaged in systematic persecution of religious minorities in Gujarat during the last ten years.

 
WHAT:  Press Conference to release a letter signed by 25 Congresspersons, urging the State Department to continue the ban on Narendra Modi.

WHEN: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 2:15 PM.

WHERE: House Triangle (outdoor podium in between the Capitol and Cannon House Office Building). 

WHO
: Rep. Joe Pitts(R-PA), Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) and several other Congresspersons, their staffers and families of victims will be in attendance, along with CAG officials.

 

RELATED LINKS: 
 
Coalition Against Genocide calls for the continuation of the visa ban on Modi
Coalition Against Genocide, July 01, 2008
http://coalitionagainstgenocide.org/press/cag.letter.01jul2008.php 

No entry for Modi into US, visa denied

 
 

CONTACT:

Alex Koshy
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