Binayak Sen
How not to fight terror
Convicting a human-rights activist for sedition does India’s image no favours
HE WAS accused of being a Naxali daakiya—a postman for the Naxalites, India’s leftist terror movement. Binayak Sen, a 61-year-old doctor and rights activist, was a frequent visitor to a jail in Chhattisgarh where he tended, among many others, to an elderly inmate, said to be a Naxalite leader. The visits were official: he visited the jail as a leader of a local civil-liberties group. Then in May 2007, after his 33rd visit in 18 months, the police arrested the doctor and charged him with sedition and helping a banned group.
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