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...These were the laws invoked when Dr. Sen was arrested on May 14, 2007, although he wasn’t formally charged with any crime until Feb. 2, 2008. The state has accused him of plotting terrorist activities, citing his decision to provide healthcare to prisoners as evidence of his connections to illegal organizations. Dr. Sen’s patients included a convicted Naxal leader who required hand surgery, and all those visits had been approved and monitored by prison officials. It is difficult to work in Chhattisgarh, particularly in rural areas and in prisons, and not come into contact...
...ideological organization dedicated to the protection of human rights in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. This region is known for its large number of rural and forest-dwelling communities as well as for its rich mineral deposits. The day before arriving in Chhattisgarh, I learned that Dr. Binayak Sen, the human rights activist and doctor I had been planning to work with, had been arrested on counts of terrorism. He is still in jail today, nearly one year later...
...Sen is an accomplished physician, whose primary interest is pediatrics, particularly the impact of widespread malnutrition and poverty on children’s health in places like rural Chhattisgarh. He and others had created the worker-owned and -run Shaheed Hospital in the mining town of Dallirajhara, premised on the idea of demystifying medicine and making affordable healthcare accessible to all classes and castes. He and his wife, Ilina Sen, continued this work but also turned their attention to growing health and security threats in the state, especially escalating economic inequality. Over the last decade, an unstable economic situation...
...over the head." He acknowledged the furor over his former pastor's comments and his own San Francisco statements, but he said, there's something about his campaign "that's right, that's true." More pointedly, he argued that when he goes up against the putative Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain in the fall, the party will put aside its current differences, unite behind him and against what Obama called a continuation of George W. Bush's policies...
...Bill Clinton's Jesse Jackson comments, South Carolina showed that if they are perceived to be blowing the race "dog whistle" it can hurt them, and bad. At least one uncommitted superdelegate in North Carolina said this week that pushing that button could push him away. "I do expect Sen. Obama to be the nominee," Brad Miller, the Congressman from North Carolina's 13th congressional district, told me Monday morning at his campaign office off an underground garage in downtown Raleigh. "And if 'electability' is code for being African American," he said, "I can't vote against...