One more Nobel Winner calls for the Immediate Release of Dr. Sen
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dr. Binayak Sen, in Custody in India, Unable to Travel to U.S. to Accept Prestigious Human Rights Award
Physicians for Human Rights Calls for the Immediate Release of Dr. Sen
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May 14th, 2008 marked the First Anniversary of the arrest and detention of Dr. Binayak Sen, a physician and [...]
PUCL CHALLENGES THE VIRES OF THE CHHATTISGARH BLACK LAW IN THE SUPREME COURT
Press Release:
PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES–CHHATTISGARH
Raipur, May 17, 2008: (Saturday): The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has challenged the Constitutional validity of the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act 2005 in the Supreme Court of India. The Petition was filed on 14th May, 2008, the day Dr. Binayak Sen, its National Vice-President & State General [...]
International coalition demands repeal of repressive laws on one-year anniversary of Dr. Binayak Sen’s unjust incarceration
Association for India’s Development
Friends of South Asia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 15, 2008
Send a FREE FAX NOW to PM/CM: http://petitions.aidindia.org/binayaksen/index.php
Protest Videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxSoqWab0vE
Pictures : http://gallery.aidindia.org/gallery/gallery2/v/chhattisgarh_001/Binayak+Sen+Solidarity/
San Francisco, CA: Hundreds of Activists from a broad coalition of 50 international human rights groups that includes Amnesty International, National Lawyers’ Guild and SANSAD (South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy), [...]
RIGHTS-INDIA: Top Activist’s Detention Blot on Democracy
By Praful Bidwai
IPS NEWS
NEW DELHI, May 15 (IPS) – Protests are mounting all over the world against the year-long detention of Dr. Binayak Sen, a distinguished Indian human rights and health activist, under draconian laws in the central state of Chhattisgarh.
Sen, national vice president and Chhattisgarh general secretary of the well-known People’s Union of Civil [...]
Amnesty International statement on the arrest of Ajay TG
India: Concern over the arrest of filmmaker and human rights defender T.G. Ajay in Chhattisgarh
Amnesty International, ASA 20/010/2008
Amnesty International is concerned over the apparently arbitrary arrest of T. G. Ajay, a film-maker and human rights defender who has been documenting problems faced by adivasi (indigenous) communities in protecting their rights, in the central Indian state [...]
