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Activists to launch nationwide strike for releasing Binayak Sen

New Delhi, Tue, 13 May 2008 NI Wire

A nationwide protest is gaining ground with demand to release Dr. Binayak Sen, a paediatrician from Chhattisgarh and a health activist, who was sent to jail after the state police allegedly linked him with Maoists.


Human Right activists and Nobel Prize winners from across the world have pleaded India to immediate release Dr. Binayak Sen on humanitarian ground so that he could come Washington to receive the Jonathan Mann Award for “Global Health and Human Rights” on May 29. Dr. Binayak will be the first Indian to confer this International award. They also urged the central government to intervene the matter as it was the gross violation of human rights.

Rajendra Sachar a retired High Court justice and the president of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) said on Tuesday while talking to reporters that nationwide strike and dharna will be performed comprising the national capital to speeding up their demand of immediate release of Dr. Binayak.

Sachar demanded the Centre to personally intervene the matter or at least direct the Chhattisgarh government to submit its report and views on the matter. The Centre can ask for such report by remaining within the constitutional domain. The issue has no longer been remained a local one, he said, referring 22 Nobel laureates, who have written a letter to the Central government to personally look into the matter and arrange for his trip to US to participate in the award ceremony.

Besides President, the laureates have also written letters to Prime Minister, Law Minister and the Chhattisgarh’s Chief Minister to facilitate Dr. Binayak's trip to US to receive the award.

The paediatrician and the health activist Sen, who is also the General Secretary of the PUCL, has been awarded the Jonathan Mann award for his work towards global health by US-based Global Health Council recently.

Binayak sen has been lodging in jail since May 14 last year for his alleged involvement with the extremist movement run by the Maoists in Chhattisgarh and is just going to complete one-year jail term. However, activists link his arrest with his criticism of the state sponsored Salwa Judum.

The act under which he was prisoned allows keeping him without charges for up to seven years.


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