TY - ADVS AU - Patwardhan, Anand AU - Padwardhan,Anand TI - Prisoners of conscience U1 - 365.45092 PY - 2011/// CY - Mumbai PB - Anand Patwardhan KW - Prisoners KW - Police--Complaints against KW - Political prisoners KW - Torture KW - Human rights KW - Political science KW - Documentary film N1 - Originally released theatrically in 2009; An important historical record of a traumatic period in India’s recent political history, Prisoners of conscience focuses on the state of emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi from June 1975to march 1977. During the emergency the media was muzzled, over 100,000 people were arrested without charge and imprisoned without trial. But political prisoners existed before the emergency, and they continue to exist even after it is over. ER -