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« on: December 25, 2010, 10:51:36 PM »

Human rights group slams life sentence for Indian doctor

December 25th, 2010 | 12:53 PM ET


A life sentence handed down to a rural pediatrician in the world's largest democracy had human rights activists screaming a mockery of justice Saturday.

A court in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh found Dr. Binayak Sen and two others guilty of sedition and conspiracy Friday for helping India's Maoist Naxalite movement. They were sentenced to life in jail.

Amnesty International blasted the court's actions as a violation of international fair trial standards and said Binayak's sentence was likely to enflame tensions in an area already clouded by conflict.

Amnesty said the charges were politically motivated because Sen reported the unlawful killings of tribal people by police and a private militia believed to be sponsored by the government to fight Maoist rebels.

"Life in prison is an unusually harsh sentence for anyone, much less for an internationally recognized human rights defender who has never been charged with any act of violence," said Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific director.

read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/12/25/india.maoists/index.html
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« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2010, 11:44:56 PM »

So, "conspiracies" exist when it is people who are challenging the control system.

What a crock.

Seditition?

This is a disgrace.

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« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2010, 03:04:35 PM »

So, "conspiracies" exist when it is people who are challenging the control system.

What a crock.

Seditition?

This is a disgrace.



They exist when it's a charge or sentence. They don't when they are a "theory". Orwellian doublespeak.

Sedition is a very gray area and a slippery slope indeed...

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In law, sedition was overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority to tend toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent (or resistance) to lawful authority. Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws. Seditious words in writing are seditious libel. A seditionist is one who engages in or promotes the interests of sedition.

Typically, sedition is considered a subversive act, and the overt acts that may be prosecutable under sedition laws vary from one legal code to another. Where the history of these legal codes has been traced, there is also a record of the change in the definition of the elements constituting sedition at certain points in history. This overview has served to develop a sociological definition of sedition as well, within the study of state persecution.

The difference between sedition and treason consists primarily in the subjective ultimate object of the violation to the public peace. Sedition does not consist of levying war against a government nor of adhering to its enemies, giving enemies aid, and giving enemies comfort. Nor does it consist, in most representative democracies, of peaceful protest against a government, nor of attempting to change the government by democratic means (such as direct democracy or constitutional convention).

Sedition is the stirring up of rebellion against the government in power. Treason is the violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or state, giving aid to enemies, or levying war against one's state. Sedition is encouraging one's fellow citizens to rebel against their state, whereas treason is actually betraying one's country by aiding and abetting another state. Sedition laws somewhat equate to terrorism and public order laws.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition

One could argue that many present governments are guilty of sedition and conspiracy against their citizens.
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« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2010, 03:12:07 PM »


Sedition is a very gray area and a slippery slope indeed...

One could argue that many present governments are guilty of sedition and conspiracy against their citizens.
Quite.

Indeed.

Evidently India is no different in that regard than the U.S./Britain, but then I hadn't assumed it wasn't.
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