Alerts in India
Indian Public Health Activist Remains in Prison
Alert Update
Date: 30 April 2009
The trial of Indian human rights activist Dr Binayak Sen suffered another delay on Monday, further prolonging the doctor’s unjust stay in jail, Amnesty International has said.
Academics Call for Release of Doctor and Public Health Activist
Action Alert
Date: 03 April 2009
Academics from UK universities have called for the release of Dr Binayak Sen, the first Indian recipient of the 2008 Jonathan Mann award for Global Health and Human Rights. Dr Sen has been a political prisoner since 14 May 2007 and has been denied bail and appropriate medical treatment.
Police Attacks Students in India
Alert
Date: 29 June 2005
Students of of Jadavpur University, West Bengal, India have reportedly been attacked by police during a protest on 11 June 2005. The students, belonging to the Faculty of Engineering and Technology Students Union (FETSU), Jadavpur University where protesting against the suspension of five of their colleagues.
Child Slaves Abandoned to India’s Silk Industry
Alert
Date: 23 January 2003
Human Rights Watch released a report yesterday stating that the Indian government is failing to protect the rights of hundreds of thousands of children who toil as virtual slaves in the country’s silk industry. At every stage of the silk industry, bonded children as young as five years old work 12 or more hours a day, six and a half or seven days a week.