Parallel Lines of Dissent. We have a situation in which the government is acting as a guarantor to the process of expropriation of access of common property resources across the country and handing over those resources to private interests.
This is leading to inequity… this process gives birth to widespread structural violence. And in response to this structural violence the resistance of the public is their right. The laws regarding revolt against the state are extensively deformed and because of this, many people are in prison. – Dr. Binayak Sen [1] [2] Indian authorities are fighting against what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh maintains is “the biggest internal security challenge facing our country.” [3] The people who make up this “challenge” have many names—left-wing extremists, Naxalites, Maoists, and others—but whatever terminology is used, their role is to be a thorn in the side of corporate India.
They are struggling to maintain their existence as self-reliant Adivasi (indigenous) communities. Notes. 1. 2. National : Lawyers, activists shocked by Binayak Sen verdict. PTI Dr.
Binayak Sen being shifted to jail after he was awarded life sentence by the Raipur Sessions Court, in Chhattisgarh, on Friday. As a crush of lawyers, reporters and policemen awaited the sentencing of Dr. Binayak Sen, Pijush Guha, and Narayan Sanyal on the ground floor of the Raipur Sessions Court, an almost identical case was under way in another courtroom on the first floor of the same building. Asit Kumar Sen Gupta stood before Justice O.P. Gupta, awaiting his sentence for criminal conspiracy to commit sedition and wage war against the Government of India. Like Dr. Dr. Dr. “Convicting Dr. India's Independent Weekly News Magazine.
Forty Nobel laureates – including the 2009 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry Venkatraman Ramakrishnan – have expressed shock at the manner in which human rights activist Binayak Sen has been sentenced to life.
In a signed letter, the laureates have called Sen ‘an exceptional, courageous, and selfless colleague, dedicated to helping those in India who are least able to help themselves’. They have also questioned the nature of the trial that found Sen guilty of sedition and have called it ‘unjust’ and ‘blatantly unfair’. The Nobel laureates have called upon leaders in India to speak out against the ‘injustice’. In 2008, 22 Nobel laureates had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appealing for Sen’s release on bail. After a sustained campaign by human right activists around the world, the Supreme Court granted Sen bail in 2009. An appeal challenging the sentence has been filed in the Chhattisgarh High Court.
Binayak wins 2011 Gwangju Prize For Human Rights. Dr Binayak Sen, recently released from a Raipur prison on bail by the Supreme Court, has won the 2011 Gwangju Prize For Human Rights, South Korea’s most prestigious award for those working on peace, democracy and justice issues in Asia.
The Award was announced on Thursday 21st April by the 2011 Gwangju Prize Committee in Seoul, South Korea. The Prize which carries a sum of 50,000 US dollars is awarded each May 18 on the anniversary of the May 1980 Gwangju Democratic Uprising to a person or organization who has made significant contributions in the field of human rights and democracy. The Prize has been constituted to carry on the spirit of the May 1980 Gwangju Democratic Uprising, which inspired the entire transformation of South Korea from a military dictatorship till the mid-eighties to a thriving democracy today.
The 2011 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights this year received 32 nominations from countries all around Asia. For further information in South Korea Contact: One Comment. Free Binayak Sen Campaign. Najeeb Jung, Feb 1, 2011, Times of India The incarceration of Binayak Sen reminded me of the sophist philosopher Thrasymachus’s definition of justice in Plato’s Republic. Challenged by Socrates to define justice he says: “I proclaim that might is right, and justice is in the interest of the stronger…The different forms of government make laws, democratic, aristocratic, or autocratic, with a view to their respective interests; and these laws, so made by them to serve their interests, they deliver to their subjects as ‘justice’, and punish as ‘unjust’ anyone who transgresses them.”
This is the nature of justice meted out to Sen who has spent a lifetime working among the adivasis of Chhattisgarh. Sen is the national vice-president of People’s Union for Civil Liberties and general secretary of its Chhattisgarh unit. India's Independent Weekly News Magazine. Final Statement of Binayak Sen I am a trained medical doctor with a specialization in child health.
I completed my MBBS from the Christian Medical College, Vellore in 1972, and completed studies leading to the award of the degree of MD (Paediatrics) of the Madras University, from the same institution in 1976. After this, I joined the faculty of the Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and worked there for two years, before leaving to join a field based health programme at the Friends Rural Centre, Rasulia in Hoshangabad, MP. At The Heart Of It with Shoma Chaudhury - Feb 10, 2011 - The Binayak Sen Sentence.