Let us flood the Raipur Jail with greetings

04.01.2011
Dr Binayak Sen is a pioneer of health care to marginalized and indigenous communities in Chhattisgarh, and he has reported on unlawful killings of Adivasis. India has sentenced him to life imprisonment.

Dear colleagues and friends,

New Year’s Greetings!

Tomorrow, the 4^th of January, 2011, is the 61^st birthday of Dr. Binayak Sen. Let us flood the Raipur Jail with greetings, telegrams and cards to Dr. Sen wishing him on his birthday.

Raipur Additional District and Sessions Judge B. P. Verma sentenced
PUCL’s (People’s Union for Civil Liberties) 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) on the 24th of December 2010.

Dr Binayak Sen is a pioneer of health care to marginalized and indigenous communities in Chhattisgarh, where the state police and armed Maoists have been engaged in clashes over the last seven years. He has reported on unlawful killings of Adivasis (Indigenous People) by the police and by Salwa Judum, a private militia widely held to be sponsored by the state authorities to fight the armed Maoists.

*Appended is a model greeting that you could use.*

The email ID to send messages to Dr. Binayak Sen on his birthday
on 4th January 2011 is: drkkgupta61@yahoo.com
The fax number is 92- 771- 2886313
The telephone number is 91- 771-2886027

With best regards,

Sabitha
Secretariat,
HRD Alert - India and People's Watch

*/BINAYAK, WE ARE WITH YOU ON YOUR BIRTHDAY/*