Dr Binayak Sen: Tribal doctor :BBC Report
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Dr Binayak Sen: Tribal doctor
Binayak Sen says poor people have real grievances
One of India’s best-known public health specialists and human rights activists, Dr Binayak Sen, has now spent a year in an Indian prison.
He is accused of links with Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh, one of India’s poorest states where the rebels have a [...]
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 [...]
US Day of Protest for Dr. Binayak Sen: May 13, 2008.
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lease sign a petition to help free Dr. Sen or put a web banner for publicity on your website or blog for highlighting this issue.
You can get a local group in your city to hold a Free Binayak Sen Film Festival to raise awareness about the [...]
Widespread condemnation of Dr Binayak Sen’s Solitary Confinement
According to a petition signed by hundreds of medical professionals, former colleagues and supporters of Dr Sen, solitary confinement not only violates the Indian Penal Code but also all axioms of justice and fairplay. Dr Sen has been kept in prison for the past eleven months under the Chattisgarh State Public Security Act, on false charges of aiding outlawed Maoist activity
Petition Against Dr Binayak Sen’s Solitary Confinement
It is unfortunate enough that Dr Sen, an internationally renowned humanitarian activist, has been kept in prison for the past eleven months on false charges under the Chattisgarh State Public Security Act, a law that violates the basic provisions of the Indian Constitution. To further subject him to solitary confinement is nothing but a sign of vengefulness on the part of the Raipur Jail and Chattisgarh police authorities and an obvious attempt to break his morale.
