{"id":11356,"date":"2011-05-31T00:31:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T19:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=11356"},"modified":"2011-05-31T00:31:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T19:01:52","slug":"binayak-sen-slams-sedition-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/binayak-sen-slams-sedition-laws","title":{"rendered":"Binayak Sen slams sedition laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/binayak-sen.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11357\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/binayak-sen-slams-sedition-laws\/binayak-sen_8\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/binayak-sen.jpg?fit=315%2C350&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"315,350\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;THE HINDU&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;CHENNAI : 03\/05\/2010 : Dr. Binayak Sen, human rights activist during the convocation ceremony of the Class of 2010 of the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai on Monday. Photo : M_Vedhan&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;BINAYAK SEN_8&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"binayak-sen\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;CHENNAI : 03\/05\/2010 : Dr. Binayak Sen, human rights activist during the convocation ceremony of the Class of 2010 of the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai on Monday. Photo : M_Vedhan&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/binayak-sen.jpg?fit=225%2C250&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11357\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/binayak-sen.jpg?resize=315%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/binayak-sen.jpg?w=315&amp;ssl=1 315w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/binayak-sen.jpg?resize=135%2C150&amp;ssl=1 135w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/05\/binayak-sen.jpg?resize=225%2C250&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a>Rights and public health activist Binayak Sen Monday termed sedition laws in the country as \u2018draconian\u2019 and said these are often misused to \u2018suppress the voice of the people\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The UK does not have a sedition law, but we have it. It was brought to India by the British and we are still continuing it,\u2019 Sen said at a crowded media interaction at the Bombay Press Club.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the sedition laws were draconian and often misused to smother the voice of the people agitating for genuine public causes.<\/p>\n<p>Sen said that his group, People\u2019s Union for Civil Liberties, had discussed the issue in detail and launched a public campaign on sedition laws.<\/p>\n<p>Before the winter session of parliament, one million signatures of people opposing sedition laws would be collected and handed over to the concerned authorities, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing public health, Sen said the National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau and the National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, have released figures which show that 37 percent of the total Indian adult population have a BMI (body mass index) below 18.5.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the anti-graft Lokpal Bill, Sen said that \u2018we need an agency of Lokpal to check corruption and it is essential\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He said that it would not be an answer to corruption but it would be an item in the armoury to fight corruption.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights and public health activist Binayak Sen Monday termed sedition laws in the country as \u2018draconian\u2019 and said these are often misused to \u2018suppress the voice of the people\u2019. \u2018The UK does not have a sedition law, but we have it. It was brought to India by the British and we are still continuing it,\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[89],"tags":[1905,3920],"class_list":["post-11356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment-news","tag-binayak-sen","tag-sedition-laws"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Binayak Sen slams sedition laws<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rights and public health activist Binayak Sen Monday termed sedition laws in the country as \u2018draconian\u2019 and said these\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/binayak-sen-slams-sedition-laws\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Binayak Sen slams sedition laws\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rights and public health activist Binayak Sen Monday termed sedition laws in the country as \u2018draconian\u2019 and said these\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/binayak-sen-slams-sedition-laws\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; 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Over 250 doctors and students who assembled under the banner 'Doctors in Solidarity: Free Binayak Sen Campaign' joined\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Criminal Law News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Criminal Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/criminal-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7987,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/chhattisgarh-right-activists-protest-binayak-sens-conviction","url_meta":{"origin":11356,"position":3},"title":"Chhattisgarh right activists protest Binayak Sen&#8217;s conviction","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"January 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Right activists and workers of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (CMM) held a rally and staged a sit-in Friday here to extend support to activist Binayak Sen, who was sentenced to life by a local court here last\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Top Law News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Top Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/top-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Binayak-Sen.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8822,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/high-court-reserves-order-on-binayak-sens-bail-plea","url_meta":{"origin":11356,"position":4},"title":"High court reserves order on Binayak Sen&#8217;s bail plea","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"February 9, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Chhattisgarh High Court Wednesday reserved its order on the bail plea of rights activist Binayak Sen even as the state government opposed it on the grounds of his links with the Maoists.Sen is at present lodged in a jail in Raipur capital city following his sentencing to life term\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Criminal Law News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Criminal Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/criminal-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Binayak-Sen.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9977,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-adjourns-binayak-sens-bail-plea-till-friday","url_meta":{"origin":11356,"position":5},"title":"Supreme Court adjourns Binayak Sen&#8217;s bail plea till Friday","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"April 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Supreme Court Monday adjourned till Friday the bail plea of human rights activist Binayak Sen who has been sentenced to life imprisonment for sedition and links with Maoists. 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