RELEASE BINAYAK SEN NOW !!!

PROTEST AGAINST THE INJUSTICE

30th December, 2010
Outside Albert Hall Museum, Ram Niwas Bagh,
11 am 0nwards to 1pm

Dear friends,

All of us citizens and members of different organsiations in Rajasthan are holding a protest against the miscarriage of justice in the Dr. Binayak Sen case. As you are aware Dr. Sen was sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of sedition by a local court in Raipur on the 24th of December, 2010. We will be protesting this brazen injustice as the law of sedition has been misused only to silence dissenting voices. We will be also demanding the repeal of this law on sedition.

The Jaipur protest will take place on the 30th December, 2010 at 11.15 am outside the Albert Hall Museum at Ram Niwas Bagh,

Please send your reporter and photographer for covering this event.

Prem Krishna ( People's Union for Civil liberties, Rajasthan), Dr. Narendra Gupta ( Prayas and Jan Swasthya Abhiyan), Hitendra Upadhyay (Sambhav), Prof Salim (Jamait Islami Hind), P.L Mimroth ( Centre for Dalit Rights), Sawai Singh (Samgra Sewa Kendra), Nishat Hussein (National Muslim Welfare Society), Nisha Sidhu (NFIW), Mew Bharti ( Rajasthan Gheralu Kamgaar Union), Kailash Chand Kumbhakar ( Academy for Social Sciences), Komal Srivastava ( bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti), Rashid (Human Development Society), Prof Hasan (IRADA), Rajaram Bhadu (Samantar), Vijay Goyal ( SIRD), Chaju Jat ( Rozi Roti Adhikar Samuh, Phagi) Read the full story

he People's Union for Civil Liberties is deeply disappointed at the miscarriage of justice reflected in the judgement of Raipur Additional District and Sessions Judge B. P. Verma sentencing our National Vice President Dr. Binayak Sen to life imprisonment under charges of sedition 124 (A) of the IPC read with conspiracy (120-B IPC) along with convicting him concurrently u/s 8-(1), (2), (3) and (5) of the Chhattisgarh Vishesh Jan Suraksha Adhiniyam,2005 (Chhattisgarh Special Public Safety Act, 2005) and u/sec 39 (2) of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 2004 (amended). It is a sad day for the PUCL and all human rights defenders in the country and a black day for the Indian Judiciary

Dr. Binayak Sen was charged with being a courier of letters from co-accused Narayan Sanyal to Piyush Guha. All through the trial not a single Jail authority appearing as prosecution witness confirmed this. In fact, there was no substantive evidence to confirm any of the allegations of the prosecution.

The PUCL holds that Dr Binayak Sen is a victim of the vendetta of the Chhattisgarh government for his bold and principled opposition to state sponsored vigilante operation Salwa Judum, which has been held unacceptable even by the Supreme Court. His conviction is one more example of the state succeeding in securing the conviction of an innocent person on the basis of false evidence. It is an occasion for the nation to demand drastic reform of the criminal justice system to ensure that it is not manipulated by the state to persecute, prosecute and victimize innocent persons.

The PUCL will continue to work towards Dr. Binayak Sen release and take all legal measures in this regard. It will also work towards building public opinion against the ongoing persecution of activists and Human Rights Defenders in the country.

Prabhakar Sinha (President)
Pushkar Raj (General Secretary)
Mahi Pal Singh (National Secretary)
Kavita Srivastava (National Secretary)


Phone number: 09312206414, ( mahipal Singh)
09351562965(Kavita) Read the full story