HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATED🔗

In the whole persecution on His Divine Holiness in the year 2012, there were gross violations to His and His community's basic human rights as proclaimed in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). These rights and freedoms are entitled for all that are considered humans - without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. (read: http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html)

Violation of Human Rights: His Divine Holiness and his community were unlawfully forced by the State-Police-Media-Mafia Nexus to leave the State of Karnataka.

• Human Rights (Article 3,13) : Everyone has the right of freedom of movement and residence within border of each states.

Violation of Human Rights: His Divine Holiness and various members of his community were illegally and arbitrarily arrested several times. They were misled saying the police is going to protect them, and were arrested the next moment.

• Human Rights (Article 9): No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Violation of Human Rights: Disciples of His Divine Holiness were beaten and molested by the militants of Hindu Extremist organizations (like Karnataka Navanirman Sene), yet, it was only the disciples of His Divine Holiness who got arrested. None of the militants of Hindu Extremist organizations were even touched by the Police. Infact Police only shielded them and supported them. Were the disciples of His Divine Holiness any less human and unworthy of protection in the human society?

• Human Rights (Article 1): All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights

Violation of Human Rights: His Divine Holiness was repeatedly imprisoned, once in the year 2010, and twice illegally on the same day in 2012. He was subjected to third degree torture and he was given poisoned food.

• Human Rights (Article 5): No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Violation of Human Rights: The temple-monastery of His Divine Holiness was arbitrarily and illegally sealed.

• Human Rights (Article 17.2): No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Violation of Human Rights: His Divine Holiness' right to worship the 2000 year Shivalinga, passed on generation by generation was denied by the State Police. Never before had such a thing happened, not even during thousands of foreign invasions done by several tyrants in the past 2000 years.

• Human Rights (Article 18): Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.

Violation of Human Rights: There was illegal sealing of the aadheenam and a curfew was imposed. Four or more residents of the aadheenam were not allowed to assemble and even talk in group. All main places were sealed in the aadheenam. All congregations were stopped not allowing any cultural gathering to celebrate the temple culture.

• Human Rights (Article 27) : Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.