Release Binayak Sen before India starts looking like a tin-pot dictatorship

Editorial, Hindustan Times, May 13, 2008

Who’s afraid of Binayak Sen?

It’s 365 days since public health specialist and human rights activist Dr Binayak Sen has been behind bars. A critic of the Chhattisgarh government’s Salwa Judum policy, which is now being investigated for excesses by the National Human Rights Commission after a Supreme Court order, Dr Sen was arrested on May 14, 2007, for allegedly passing letters from a Naxalite leader — who he had been treating — to another inside the Raipur jail. On April 30, almost a year after his arrest, six witnesses were examined. Considering that there are 83 witnesses and the pace at which our judicial system works, it looks doubtful that Dr Sen will be judged in a court of law in a hurry. Read more

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Free Binayak Sen Film Festival in JNU

Release Dr Sen and Ajai TG without any delay

Cinemela Collectives
presents
Free Binayak Sen Film Festival
May 14, 2008/10am onwards
SAA auditorium, JNU, New Delhi

and many other teachers, activists and friends of Dr Sen will speak on the man, his contributions and the situation which led to his arrest.

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International campaign gains momentum: The Hindu

Hasan Suroor
The Hindu

LONDON: The international campaign in support of Binayak Sen, human rights activist languishing in Chhattisgarh for allegedly helping the banned Maoist rebel movement in the State, gained momentum on Tuesday with a protest outside the Indian High Commission here by a group of rights activists and doctors on the first anniversary of his incarceration.

Letter to Pratibha

Protesters, among whom were several former colleagues of Dr. Sen, raised slogans demanding his release to enable him to travel to the U.S. to receive the prestigious Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights in Washington on May 29. Read more

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KOLKOTTA CONVENTION DEMANDING DR. BINAYAK SEN’S RELEASE

KOLKOTTA CONVENTION DEMANDING DR. BINAYAK SEN’S RELEASE
ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 14 2008
VENUE: MEDICAL COLLEGE GENERAL COMMON ROOM
AT 5 PM

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Global day of Protest: Send a Free Fax Now to PM/CM

Send a FREE FAX NOW to PM/CM
Dear Friends,

Thanks for your passionate response to our earlier appeal to mark the first year of imprisonment of Dr. Binayak Sen, an activist with a lifelong commitment to the issues of community health and human rights. So far 39 international organizations have endorsed our appeal and 2600 people have signed the petition demanding the release of Dr. Binayak Sen.

Vigils and rallies are being organized in different cities around the world. Please find the closest city in the list below to join the actions and strengthen the voice against injustice.

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