Archive for June, 2009
Press Conference on June 3: All-India Fact-finding Committee Findings on Demolition of Vanvasi Chetna Ashram in Dantewada on May 17
To
The Editor
Madam/Sir,
The Committee for the release of Dr. Binayak Sen, Mumbai has arranged a press conference on the vindictive and arbitrary demolition of the Vanvasi Chetna Ashram in Dantewada by the state government of Chhattisgarh on May 17 last.
The conference would be addressed by two members of the six-member all-India fact-finding team who had visited [...]
BINAYAK’S BAIL NOT ON MEDICAL GROUNDS, UPHOLDS CIVIL LIBERTIES
Dr Binayak Sen was granted bail on the 25th of May, 2009. In the midst of our celebrations that the illegal detention of Dr. Sen is over, some clarification is needed. One question doing the rounds is whether
Binayak was granted bail on medical grounds?
No it was a general BAIL without any conditions on furnishing [...]
Memorandum on demolition of Vanvasi Chetna Ashram
MEMORANDUM GIVEN TO DANTEWADA SP RAHUL SHARMA AND THE COLLETCOR OF DANTEWADA ON DEMOLITION OF VANVASI CHETNA ASHRAM ON MAY 17 2009 BY FACTFINDING TEAM
The Vanvasi Chetna Ashram (VCA) was implementing various government schemes in the area including Mitanin health programme , watershed development, water and sanitation programme in villages and Salwa judum camps and [...]
‘This is a mindset of intolerance’
Asha Menon
Indian Express
The state has become intolerant after two developments — economic liberalisation and 9/11,” says S A R Geelani, vice-president of the Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners. “Anyone who talks about land rights or opposes the SEZ policy could be called a Maoist or a Naxalite and put in prison. And people [...]
The hard life of a lone revolutionary
Binayak Sen’s detention said it all: innocence is no proof against arbitrary arrest. TNSE looks at similar, lesser known victims from across the country’s southern states and Orissa
By Asha Menon
The New Indian Express
The arrest didn’t come out of the blue,” 34-year-old Padma says as she tries to remember the event. “There were whispered warnings, but [...]
