CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING: Massacre of Muslims in Gujarat 2002: Justice Delayed, Denied
Congressional Briefing on February 28, 2023 to mark the 21st anniversary of massacre of Muslims in which Hindu extremists killed nearly 2,000 Muslim men, women and children in India’s Gujarat state. Stephen Schneck, Commissioner, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, leads the panel. The panel include a survivor of the violence, the daughter of a jailed whistleblower police officer, an investigative reporter from India, and representatives of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. The briefing will also screen a documentary by the BBC that aired in January detailing the complicity of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in those massacres.
Lunch will be served at the briefing.
CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING
Massacre of Muslims in Gujarat 2002: Justice Delayed, Denied
SCREENING
BBC Documentary “India: The Modi Question”
Venue: Room # H2 108, Ford House Office Building, 2nd St SW, Washington, DC
Date: February 28, 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 11 am to 1.30 pm ET
Stephen Schneck USCIRF Commissioner
Imran Dawood UK (Eyewitness and survivor)
Govind Acharya Country Specialist – India, Amnesty International USA
John Sifton Asia Advocacy Director – Human Rights Watch
Dr. Aakashi Bhatt UK (daughter of jailed whistleblower Sanjiv Bhatt)
Ashish Khetan India (Investigative journalist who exposed the killers)
Dr. Angana Chatterji Scholar, UC Berkeley
Organized by: India Working Group
(The India Working Group is a Working Group of the International Religious Freedom Roundtable. They are solely participants of the IRF Roundtable and do not speak on behalf of it or other members who have not opted into this specific Multi-Faith Action and/or event)