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calls for his freedom   </span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-color: windowtext; border-right-color: windowtext; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-left-color: windowtext; border-top-width: 1pt; border-right-width: 1pt; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: 1pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; ">(excerpts)</span></strong><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: normal; "></span></font></h1>


<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif">The
trial of celebrated Indian pediatrician Binayak Sen, a tireless advocate for
the poor and marginalized in India’s
Chattisgarh State,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Dr-Binayak-Sen-case-Court-to-deliver-verdict-on-Dec-24/articleshow/7125220.cms" target="_blank" style="outline-style: none;outline-width: initial;outline-color: initial;
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padding:0in">ends on Friday,</span></b></a></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif"><b style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; cursor: pointer; "><br>
</b></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif"><b style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; cursor: pointer; "><span style="color:#5B5501;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;
padding:0in"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Dr-Binayak-Sen-case-Court-to-deliver-verdict-on-Dec-24/articleshow/7125220.cms" target="_blank" style="outline-style: none;outline-width: initial;outline-color: initial;
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background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"> December 24</a></span></b>. A judge is expected to
deliver a verdict in this widely-watched case that is marked by unsubstantiated
allegations and intimidation of human </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif">rights advocates.</font></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="wp-caption-text" align="right" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:right;line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color: white; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif">Dr. Sen with a
small patient</font></span></p>

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background-repeat:initial initial" id="more-3788"></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Physicians for Human Rights and dozens of other human
rights and medical organizations have<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/news-2008-05-20.html" target="_self" style="outline-style: none;outline-width: initial;outline-color: initial;
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padding:0in">repeatedly called</span></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for
the release of the doctor who is being tried for alleged </span></font></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:
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initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><br></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:
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initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">conspiracy against the
State. Dr. Sen was arrested in 2007, detained for two years, and released on
bail in May 2009. In 2008, he was<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/statement-2008-5-20.html" target="_self" style="outline-style: none;outline-width: initial;outline-color: initial;
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padding:0in">awarded the Jonathan </span></b></a></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:
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initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; cursor: pointer; "><br>
</b></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:
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initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; cursor: pointer; "><span style="color:#5B5501;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;
padding:0in"><a href="http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/statement-2008-5-20.html" target="_self" style="outline-style: none;outline-width: initial;outline-color: initial;
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background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial">Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights</a></span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by the Global Health Council. Sen was
unable to attend the ceremony in Washington
that year but</span></font></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:
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initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><br></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:
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initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "> his wife, Dr. Ilina Sen, received the honor on his behalf.</span></font></p>


<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0in;
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initial initial"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif">PHR calls on those involved in the decisions related Dr. Sen’s
plight to recognize that the case has involved innuendo and politicized charges
from the very </font></span></p><p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0in;
line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-style: none;outline-width: initial;
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initial initial"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif">beginning. Many following the trial, including Indian journalists
for major national newspapers have described the trial as “farcical.”</font></span></p>

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initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif">Informed observers have repeatedly
stated that the arrest and trial of Dr. Sen is an effort by Chattisgarh
authorities to vilify and intimidate those who </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:
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initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif">advocate for the poor and
marginalized tribal populations in India. Sen has been charged for his
alleged involvement with prisoners who are part of the </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:
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initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif">banned Communist or
Maoist parties. Chattisgarh has experienced years of violence between armed
Maoist groups and Salwa Judum, an armed anti-Maoist </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:
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initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif">movement with suspected
state support.</font></span></p>

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initial initial"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0in;
line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-style: none;outline-width: initial;
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initial initial"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif">Dr. Sen denies the accusations against him stating that his
visits to the prisons were constantly supervised by prison authorities, as required
by the Jail </font></span></p><p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0in;
line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-style: none;outline-width: initial;
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initial initial"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif">Manual. Dr Sen has always condemned violence. He has always
insisted that violence will not solve any problems. He has been speaking up for
poor </font></span></p><p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0in;
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initial initial"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif">people. He has been trying to remind civil society that we have a
responsibility towards all, not some, and that has been an unpopular act.</font></span></p>

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line-height:9.5pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-style: none;outline-width: initial;
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initial initial"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif">In the early 90′s, Dr. Sen, along with his wife, Ilina, founded
a non-profit health and human rights organization, Rupantar, which trained
community health </font></span></p><p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0in;
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elected Vice-President of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), one of
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PHR
urges health professionals and their institutions around the world to call for
the release of Dr. Sen so that he can return to his remarkable work </font></span><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="garamond, serif">supporting
the poorest of India’s
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