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Local DJ Needs Help
"KJ" is a much-loved local DJ and electronic music pioneer, and he needs your help. He has been called to report to the INS as part of America's response to terrorism. He now faces deportation unless he is granted political asylum. If he is deported to Pakistan, he faces certain persecution, as a gay Hindu.
Please send an email or letter by Feb. 24th, to show your support for KJ. Feel free to add to the letter or write your own. And please pass this on to as many people as possible. He has given so much to the San Francisco music community, and now he needs your show of support. San Francisco needs Keshav Jiwnani to stay here.
In Pakistan, homosexuality is illegal, punishable with life in prison and corporal punishment of 100 lashes, while Islamic law, which also can be enforced legally, calls for up to 100 lashes or death by stoning (from a report by an international human rights commission about homosexuality in Pakistan).
For more information see: http://www.eyephunk.com/kj/
Send letters to:
Law Office of Robert B. Jobe, Attn: Genevieve Kramer
550 Kearny #150
San Francisco, CA. 94108
E-mails should be sent to:
gen [at] jobelaw.com
SAMPLE LETTER:
Please do not deport this Hindu gay man to Moslem Pakistan, where he will face certain persecution and danger for his life.
Keshav Jiwnani is a productive and peaceful member of the San Francisco community. He has lived in the United States for 17 years. As a gay teenager, Keshav fled his native Pakistan for the freedom of the United States. Since then, he has contributed greatly to the artistic, cultural, and economic character of not just San Francisco, but the entire country. He has helped form several small businesses, which have contributed to the local economy. He has been instrumental in the music industry, both as an artist and as a leader in the entertainment world, earning the respect and admiration of music fans everywhere. Pakistan is well known for its life-threatening violations of human rights against gay people and the Hindu religious minority. Please do not detain or deport Keshav Jiwnani. He deserves political asylum and U.S. citizenship.
(signature)
In Pakistan, homosexuality is illegal, punishable with life in prison and corporal punishment of 100 lashes, while Islamic law, which also can be enforced legally, calls for up to 100 lashes or death by stoning (from a report by an international human rights commission about homosexuality in Pakistan).
For more information see: http://www.eyephunk.com/kj/
Send letters to:
Law Office of Robert B. Jobe, Attn: Genevieve Kramer
550 Kearny #150
San Francisco, CA. 94108
E-mails should be sent to:
gen [at] jobelaw.com
SAMPLE LETTER:
Please do not deport this Hindu gay man to Moslem Pakistan, where he will face certain persecution and danger for his life.
Keshav Jiwnani is a productive and peaceful member of the San Francisco community. He has lived in the United States for 17 years. As a gay teenager, Keshav fled his native Pakistan for the freedom of the United States. Since then, he has contributed greatly to the artistic, cultural, and economic character of not just San Francisco, but the entire country. He has helped form several small businesses, which have contributed to the local economy. He has been instrumental in the music industry, both as an artist and as a leader in the entertainment world, earning the respect and admiration of music fans everywhere. Pakistan is well known for its life-threatening violations of human rights against gay people and the Hindu religious minority. Please do not detain or deport Keshav Jiwnani. He deserves political asylum and U.S. citizenship.
(signature)
For more information:
http://www.eyephunk.com/kj
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I'd get a media brigade together over the gay issue, call up corporate media even, gay rights groups, and do everything he can to be walking in there with a sea of cameras behind him. Even if you have to dress poeple up to look like media.
How many have been deported or dissapeared so far?
Oh, that's right, national security, no one can know.
How many have been deported or dissapeared so far?
Oh, that's right, national security, no one can know.
I realize the Feb 21 dead line has passed Yet I feel the need to Make availible my experience knowing Keshav Jiwnani (KJ)
Keshav Jiwnani (KJ) in my opinion is a true American livin' da American Dream -- I have know KJ since 1993 and look torwards him as an inspiration -- KJ is one of the only people to ever have faith in me (other than Family of Course) and my potetial to live the American Dream. I feel it would definately would be a GREAT loss to Our Country to lose such a beautiful being and a terrible injustice will have occured if he's not able to become a citizen of the USA -- There should be MORE people in this World like KJ --
PLUR (Peace Love Unity and Respect)
ChiMoHe Muun -- A Straight male in USA
Keshav Jiwnani (KJ) in my opinion is a true American livin' da American Dream -- I have know KJ since 1993 and look torwards him as an inspiration -- KJ is one of the only people to ever have faith in me (other than Family of Course) and my potetial to live the American Dream. I feel it would definately would be a GREAT loss to Our Country to lose such a beautiful being and a terrible injustice will have occured if he's not able to become a citizen of the USA -- There should be MORE people in this World like KJ --
PLUR (Peace Love Unity and Respect)
ChiMoHe Muun -- A Straight male in USA
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