Dr Binayak Sen is appealing against his life-term sentence for sedition and conspiracy against the State © Satya Sivaraman
By Ramesh Gopalakrishnan, Amnesty International’s India researcher
Ilina Sen says she has no plans to go to Bilaspur this Wednesday. That’s the day the high court in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh will resume hearing on the appeal filed by her husband, the acclaimed Indian human rights activist, Dr Binayak Sen.
Dr Sen is appealing against the life-term sentence handed over to him last month by a district court here which convicted him of sedition and conspiracy against the State. Unsure when he would be released following the hearing, or whether he would be released at all, Ilina says she plans to meet him two days later in the relative quiet of the prison here.
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