New Delhi, May 13 : The People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) today called for the immediate release of social worker Dr. Binayak Sen, and appealed to the Central Government to allow him to travel to the United States to receive the Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights.
Dr. Sen, a pediatrician, had been attempting to promote a low cost health plan in several villages of Chhattisgarh and was a vociferous critic of the Salwa Judum movement, a state government-sponsored initiative to counter Maoist killings in the state.