Binayak Sen

Civil Rights activist Binayak Sen greets Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi who had been arrested on charges of sedition as he arrives for a press conference after he was released on bail i...

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Social activist Medha Patkar and Civil rights activist Binayak Sen at a protest against forced displacement people from their lands in New Delhi.

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Civil rights activist Binayak Sen and head of the Women studies department, Mahatma Gandhi University, Maharashtra, Ilina Sen during a debate 'Voice' in Kolkata.

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Civil rights activist Binayak Sen after attending the first meeting of the Planning Commission's Steering Committee on Health in New Delhi. Sen who is on bail from the Supreme Cour...

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Social actvist Dr Binayak Sen (C) being felicitated as his mother and wife Anusua Sen and Ilina Sen (R) look on, during a programme in Nadia district of West Bengal.

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A doctor and human rights activist Binayak Sen sits in the backdrop of portrait of Mahatma Gandhi during a seminar organized by Peoples Union for Civil Liberties in New Delhi. Sen...

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Dr Binayak Sen, civil rights activist jailed on charges of colluding with the Maoists, finally gets bail from the SC. Court says sympathy does not amount to sedition.

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Rights activist Binayak Sen, serving a life sentence for sedition, after being released from the Raipur Central Jail on Monday evening.

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Rights activist Binayak Sen, serving a life sentence for sedition, with his wife Ilina after being released from the Raipur Central Jail on Monday evening.

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File photo of Civil rights activist Binayak Sen flashing the victory sign outside the jail in Raipur, Chhattisgarh in May 2009. The Supreme Court today granted bail to Sen, who had...

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Civil rights activist Binayak Sen's wife Ilina and daughter Aparajita outside the Supreme Court in New Delhi. The apex court granted bail to Sen, who had been convicted and sentenc...

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Arundhati Roy addressing activists of All India Students Association during a demonstration in support of Binayak Sen, at Jantar Manter in New Delhi.

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The Chhattisgarh High Court rejected the bail application of rights activist Binayak Sen, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a sessions court on charges of sedition a...

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84-year old Anusuya Sen, the ailing mother of Binayak Sen, takes part in a rally in Kolkata demanding immediate and unconditional release of her son.

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Survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster take out a torch rally demanding immediate release of doctor-activist Binayak Sen, sentenced to life imprisonment for sedition, in Bhopal.

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People march during a rally demanding immediate release of doctor-activist Binayak Sen in Kolkata.

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Nobel laureate Amartya Sen releases the book "A Doctor to Defend - Binayak Sen Story" in New Delhi.

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Community cause Christian rally in Delhi
Ilina addresses a press conference in Delhi

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Mumbai Musings

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Feb 18, 2015

| Prachi Pinglay-Plumber
'Under The Highest Standards Of Indian Law'

40 Nobel laureates urge Dr. Binayak Sen’s immediate release on bail, insisting that this time his appeal be heard without delay

Feb 09, 2011

| et al V. Ramakrishnan
The Idea Of Sedition

Those who protest most loudly their devotion to their country are the truly seditious; that is, if anyone should be so foolish as to dwell on archaic offences...

Jan 04, 2011

| Jeremy Seabrook
The Binayak Sen Judgement

The full translation of the judgement of Trial court in Raipur which sentenced Binayak Sen, Pijush Guha and Narayan Sanyal to life imprisonment.

Dec 31, 2010

| B.P. Verma
Final Statement

'I submit that my prosecution is malafide; in fact it is a persecution. I am being made an example of by the state government of Chhattisgarh as a warning to others'

Dec 26, 2010

| Binayak Sen
Dr Binayak Sen & Two Others Vs The State

The prosecution and the court had adopted a narrowly legalistic approach to the case without seeing it in the broader context of the benign personality of Dr Sen.

Dec 28, 2010

| B. Raman
Dear Professor Manmohan Singh

I hope you don’t mind the temerity of this letter. It is written as one scholar to another, one citizen to another...I was aghast to find that Doctor Binayak Sen has been given a life term for sedition...

Dec 27, 2010

| Shiv Visvanathan
Critiquing The Binayak Sen Judgement

A quick analysis of the facts of the case and the judgement convicting Binayak Sen, Pijush Guha and Narayan Sanyal for rigorous life imprisonment

Dec 26, 2010

| Kavita Srivastava Ilina Sen Sudha Bharadwaj
A Miscarriage Of Justice

'It is a sad day for the PUCL and all human rights defenders in the country and a black day for the Indian Judiciary'

Dec 24, 2010

| Peoples Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)
A Wall Of Silence

Dr Binayak Sen's incarceration is meant to silence dissent, and criminalize democratic space. It is meant to absorb all our attention so that the stories of the hundreds of other nameless, faceless people - those without lawyers, without the attenti

Apr 06, 2009

| Arundhati Roy

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Wronged Man

D'Souza tries to understand why a man trained in medicine would spend his life with people who have fallen off the collective conscience of a nation.

Dec 10, 2012

| Anuradha Raman
There Is No Other Way

Dr Binayak Sen resisted every effort to make this a personal story, insisting it is everyman’s

Feb 07, 2011

| Sheela Reddy
The Long Harm Of The State

Everyone knows the case against Binayak is bogus, but Chhattisgarh will not let him have it easy

Jan 17, 2011

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A Fable For The Cola-Wallahs

At a time when India’s plumbing a moral low, the life of Binayak Sen becomes an example

Jan 17, 2011

| Debarshi Dasgupta Saba Naqvi
Binayak Sen

The PUCL national vice-president on his release after two years in Raipur central jail on charges of links with the Naxalite movement

Jun 08, 2009

| Snigdha Hasan
The State As Strangler

Laws to fight Maoist terror are increasingly being used against peaceful dissenters

Aug 18, 2008

| Saikat Datta
Armour Of Goodness

Solitary confinement and an arbitrary system fail to dispirit Binayak Sen. He lives on in hope.

May 26, 2008

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Framed, Nailed, Hanged

The state's in denial; everyone else knows the truth about Binayak Sen

May 26, 2008

| Anjali Puri
A Doctored Case

The apex court joins in the myopia that's keeping Dr Sen in jail

Dec 24, 2007

| Saikat Datta