[Reader-list] Fwd: A Panel Discussion on the case of Dr. Binayak Sen:Friday, January 28th, 4:00 PM:

[anupam chakravartty]

http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/maharashtra/Binayak-Sen-s-wife-booked-by-ATS/Article1-654308.aspx

The Maharashtra anti-terrorism squad on Monday booked Ilina Sen, wife of
jailed rights activist Binayak Sen, for not informing the police about the
arrival of several foreign nationals for a convention she organised.
Meanwhile, the hearing of her husband’s bail plea in the Chhattisgarh high
court is set to continue on Tuesday.

The foreigners had come to attend a three-day convention in Wardha, about 80
km from Nagpur.

Ilina has been under close police watch for spearheading a campaign to free
Binayak Sen, who was convicted by a Raipur sessions court on December 24 and
sentenced to life on sedition charges over his links with Maoist ideologue
Narayan Sanyal.

In Raipur, eminent lawyer Ram Jethmalani argued forcefully for more than two
hours at the hearing of Binayak Sen’s bail plea, asserting that there was no
substantive evidence to prove that he had committed any offence that comes
under the purview of sedition.

Jethmalani told a division bench of Justice TP Sharma and Justice RL Jhanwar
that the trial court’s conviction was based solely on police version.

“The letter which was seized by the police did not have anything
objectionable written,” argued the senior lawyer, who is also a Rajya Sabha
member.

Referring to the 60-year-old rights activist’s arrest on May 14, 2007 under
the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act, Jethmalani said, “A petition
challenging the validity of the Act is still pending for consideration
before the high court.”

An eight-member European Union delegation was also present in the court to
attend the hearing. They, however, refused to speak to the media saying the
hearing would commence on Tuesday.

The EU in its statement has expressed concern about the conditions
pertaining to the detention of Binayak Sen.

ENDS

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Cheri <goodmash.me at gmail.com> wrote:

> **
>
> *A Panel Discussion on*
>
> * Seditionist or Prisoner of Conscience*
>
> *State power, civil liberties and the case of Dr. Binayak Sen***
>
> *Friday, 28 January, 2011 at 4.00 PM *
>
> *Lecture Hall, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore*
>
>
>
> The Sessions Court of Raipur, Chhattisgarh sentenced Dr. Binayak Sen and
> two
> others to life imprisonment under charges of sedition on the 24th December
> 2010, which has drawn nationwide and international criticism. Dr. Sen, a
> medical practitioner working in one of the most backward areas of the
> country, is a sharp critic of the violation of human rights by the state
> police and the Chhattisgarh government machinery, in the name of containing
> Maoist violence. The judgement, indicting Dr. Sen for ‘sedition’, has
> opened
> up a larger debate on the problematic relationship between the state, its
> institutions like the judiciary, and the democratic values they are
> supposed
> to uphold.
>
> The panel discussion will focus on the nature of the judgement in the Dr.
> Binayak Sen case and its historical burden. It will also analyse the
> political framework of the civil liberties movement and its relation with
> the state.
>
> Introduction: * **Dr. Rajesh Kasturirangan, *National Institute of Advanced
> Studies, Bangalore
>
> *Panelists*
>
> *Disaffection and the State: A Brief History of the Sedition Law in India*
>
> *Siddharth Narrain*
>
> Legal Researcher, Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore
>
>
>  *Mainstreaming Resistance in the Neo-Liberal Context: Prospects and
> Challenges*
>
> *Dr. V Krishna Ananth*
>
> Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library; Advocate; Freelance columnist,
> Chennai
>
>
>
> *Experience from the human rights movement in Karnataka*
>
> *Prof. Nagaragere Ramesh*
>
> Member, People’s Democratic Forum, Bangalore; Former Principal, National
> College, Bangalore
>
> *All are cordially invited*
>
>
> National Institute of Advanced Studies, IISc Campus, Near M.S.Ramaiah
> Engineering College, Mathikere, Bangalore
>
>
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>
>
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>
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> National Institute of Advanced Studies
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