The People’s Movement Against
Death Penalty, a movement headed by former Supreme Court judge V.R. Krishna
Iyer, launched a website to raise support and sympathy, as well as funds,
for the ongoing legal battle to save A.G. Perarivalan, convict on death row in
the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. The website contains details of the
sensational case, current status, news articles and a payment gateway for
purchasing e-books authored by the convict who is lodged in Vellore Central
Prison. The website -- www.perarivalan.com -- is bilingual, and describes
Perarivalan as ‘a victim of denied justice'.
E-book store, photo/video
gallery and an interactive corner, the website is linked to social network sites
like Facebook and Twitter to enable users comment or follow the updates.
According to the Chennai Chapter of PMADP, the movement is chaired by social
activists and retired judges. Though it opposes the death penalty as a whole
and does not go into every case, it has partnered with Arputham Ammal, mother
of Perarivalan, in the mission to bring out the truth and render justice.
"This website is a
mission to accumulate details of the case in one location, share important
information and raise funds for the convicts, (including the two others
sentenced to death in the case, Murugan alias Sriharan and Suthanthiraja alias
Santhan) facing the gallows for more than 22 years," says its convenor
Selvaraj Murugaiyyan.
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