Blog for Human Rights Day

Today is "Blog for Human Rights" day, as you can see from the image on the left. As such, I'd like to call your attention to a little-known illegal detention that has gone on for almost a year in India. Dr. Binayak Sen is a health activist and human rights advocate in Chhattisgarh province in India. He was detained almost a year ago, on May 24, 2007. The charges against him have been investigated and shown to be false, and yet he is still unlawfully held. We like to think of India as a country with a solid human rights record, but cases like this show that things are not quite so rosy as we'd like them to be.