Free Binayak Sen Campaign

Dr Binayak Sen, who has worked for over 30 years to bring healthcare to Chhattisgarh's tribal population, has been awarded the 2008 Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights, by the Global Health Council. Human Rights activists are shocked at the conviction of well-known public health doctor and human rights worker Dr Binayak Sen by a Raipur Sessions Court on charges of ‘sedition’ and ‘waging war against the Indian State’. The conviction carries a sentence of life imprisonment, a drastic and completely unjust fate, to be handed out to one India’s finest social activists. We believe that the charges against Dr Sen, made under draconian ‘anti-terrorist’ laws, are trumped up and intended to ‘punish’ him for his outspoken criticism of the Chhattisgarh government for its human rights violations against its own tribal populations. read More at http://binayaksen.net