CONVENTION ON DRACONIAN LAWS

DELHI, JULY 26-27, 2008
Venue : Garhwal Bhavan, Panchkuian Road, Opp Videocon Tower, New Delhi
(near New Delhi Railway Station)

In order to seek moral legitimacy for their existence in the present neo-liberal era, governments increasingly are resorting to sideline the constitutional provisions of civil liberties, right to association and freedom of expression in the name of global action against terrorism. The Indian government has joined the US in this global campaign. Man Mohan Singh has also said, on more than one occasion, that naxalism is a bigger threat than terrorism. The other side of the coin is that citizens get killed or face repression at the hands of police when the state machinery brands anybody a naxalite or a terrorist and violates all norms of human rights.

Binayak Sen, the General Secretary of Chattisgarh People’s Union of Civil Liberties and national Vice President of the same body, an organization established by late Jayaprakash Narayan, and a doctor who used to run a non-governmental people’s health care programme is presently the target of Chattisgarh government. Binayak had started exposing some of the misdeeds of the state machinery in persecuting people by invoking the fear of naxalism. He is presently languishing in jail in spite of national and international protests.

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July 25, 2008 | Filed Under announcements | 1 Comment 

Video : Ilina’s Speech: Work and arrest of Dr Binayak Sen

Ilina Sen’s speech from Association of India Development 2008 Conference , Buffalo, New York

Dr Ilena Sen talks on Dr Binayak Sen’s work and illegal arrest. Video includes historical background of India’s chattisgarh state and how it is waging war on its own people by supporting Salwa Judum that pits people against people.


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June 7, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment 

IBN Live Video Report on Binayak Sen

Here is a brief report that appeared all day yesterday on the Indian TV channel IBN Live, showing a clip of Dr. Ilina’s speech accepting the Jonathan Mann Award on behalf of Dr. Binayak Sen in Washington DC on May 29.

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May 31, 2008 | Filed Under Press Reports | Leave a Comment 

Susmit Bose(Urban Folk Singer) on Dr. Binayak Sen


Susmit Bose tributes to Dr. Binayak Sen’s resistance to anti people’s laws and politics. The song is in solidarity with Dr. Binayaksen’s struggle. He was written it on May 14 2008, the anniversary of Binayak Sen’s arrest.

A lot of Artists are Organising Protests against Binayak sen’s arrest all over the country. See the statement of Artists for Human rights in Delhi below.

Artists for Human rights Statement

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May 28, 2008 | Filed Under Global day of protest, Protests, statements | Leave a Comment 

Video: UK Protest for the Release of Binayaksen


Protesters gathered outside India House, the Indian High Commission in London UK, to demand the release of Dr Binayak Sen, a Doctor and Human Rights Defender, who was arrested in the State of Chhattisgarh, on spurious charges of Maoist links and has been held without bail for a year.

Dr Sen has spent his working life providing health and defending the rights of those who are unable to fend for themselves, namely the majority Tribal population in Central India.

The Global Health Council has awarded him the Jonathan Mann award for 2008, for his work in the field of Health and Human Rights among the most diadvantaged of our Society.

22 distinguished Nobel Laureates have, in an unprecedented act, written to the Central Government of India and the State Government of Chhattisgarh requesting Dr Sen’s release on bail so that he may attend the award ceremony in Washington on the 29th of May 2008.

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May 28, 2008 | Filed Under Global day of protest, Protests | Leave a Comment 

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