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Binayak Sen: Delhi protestors demand
Monday December 27, 2010 07:45:46 PM,
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New Delhi: Holding
placards and chanting slogans, activists, students and
academicians Monday protested in the capital against a Chhattisgarh court sentencing rights activist and doctor Binayak
Sen to life imprisonment. The protesters demanded that Sen be
freed.
The Raipur court Dec 24 sentenced Sen to life imprisonment for
sedition and links with outlawed Maoists.
Speaking out against the judgment, activist and author Arundhati
Roy said there is lack of evidence in Sen's case and while they
know that they can appeal in the higher courts, "the process is
the punishment".
Sahba Hussain, a researcher, asked: "If the government can do this
with Binayak Sen, a person who has worked so much for the poor and
is internationally acclaimed, then what hope is there for the
common man?"
The protesters, numbering about 300, also sang songs reiterating
their demand. They also carried huge posters with an enlarged
photograph of Sen looking through the barred window of a police
vehicle and with the words "Brazen Injustice" imprinted on it.
According to Gautam Navlakha, an activist, the court ruling was "a
miscarriage of justice".
Social activist Swami Agnivesh said: "The allegations are wrong.
If someone sees the content of the letter they will laugh. As for
the allegation that he met Maoists in the jail, it was for their
medical treatment."
Meanwhile, former Delhi High Court chief justice Rajinder Sachar,
who is also member of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)
of which Sen is the vice president, said they will organise
protests and candlelight marches across the country.
"An intolerant atmosphere is created in India such that whoever
speaks against the government is in trouble. Civil liberties are
in danger," Sachar said.
"We will go to the higher courts and appeal. But we will also have
protests all over India to highlight this issue," he added.
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