Some of India’s most prominent artists including Sharmila Tagore, Naseeruddin Shah, Aparna Sen, Mahesh Bhatt, Rahul Bose and others have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh protesting against the imprisonment of Human Rights activist Binayak Sen.
He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment on sedition charges by the Additional District and Sessions Court at Raipur last month.
61-year-old Sen, a paediatrician by profession, was arrested in May 2007 in Bilaspur on suspicions of acting as a courier between Kolkata businessman Pijush Guha and alleged Maoist ideologue Narayan Sanyal. He was jailed for two years before the Supreme Court granted him bail in 2009.