PLIGHT OF OUR HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

Dr.Binayak Sen, the much acclaimed medical practitioner and Vice-President, Peoples’ Union For Civil Liberties Activist (PUCL) was sentenced to life-long rigorous imprisonment along with Piyush Guha, a merchant and an alleged courier and an alleged Naxalite Narayan Sanyal on Dec 24 2010. Dr.Sen was freed on bail two years ago and other two didn’t have the luck of coming out of prison at least for a short span. While Piyush Guha was languishing in a Chattisgarh jail, his parents died and in spite of that no reprieve was extended to him to perform the last rites of his parents. Similarly Narayan Sanyal, an aged and ailing person who is reportedly suffering from a serious disease was not given medical treatment by the jail authorities.

Their trials and tribulations in jail forced the PUCL (Peoples’ Union for Civil Liberties) to venture on behalf of a number of such persons harassed in jail since a prolonged period.

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Before I am accused of being an anarchist it also must be said that any law and order is better than none and furthermore a bad democracy is better than a governmental system of total freedom. This does not excuse not doing anything about it either!!! Today’s drive of consumerism puts a veneer over the enslavement all in the name of democracy.

Most democratic systems in use across the world are not working but are working inadvertently towards dictatorship and totalitarism.

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