This is the audio of the Shahid Azmi Memorial Lecture delivered on 9 February 2013 by YUG MOHIT CHAUDHRY at the Indian Law Institute in Delhi. While the lecture date and topic – death penalty – were scheduled weeks in advance, it co-incidentally happened that Mohd Afzal Guru was hanged on the morning of the lecture. Shahid Azmi was a lawyer in Mumbai. He was 32 when he was shot dead on 11 February 2010.

On Shahid Azmi from Kafila archives:

• Arvind Narrain and Saumya Uma: Can the love of justice be assassinated?
• Mahtab Alam: Remembering Shahid Azmi, the Shaheed
• Susan Abraham: Deshbhakts at Arthur Road Jail

Previously in Kafila by Yug Mohit Chaudhry:

• The Power of Mercy: On the execution of Ajmal Kasab

See also:

• A profile of Yug Mohit Chaudhry – A Pledge for Mercy

More on Afzal Guru from Kafila archives:

• Nirmalangshu Mukherji: The Day Afzal Died
• Gazala Peer: When the Indian nation’s ‘conscience’ was satisfied
• Nagesh Rao and Navine Murshid: Lessons from Delhi and Dhaka
• Shuddhabrata Sengupta: Satyameva Jayate? On the impending execution of Afzal Guru
• Chandan Gomes: What Afzal Deserves
• Statement by 83 feminists against death penalty
• A letter of protest to the President of India: JTSA
• Four statements on the execution of Afzal Guru