Dr. Quentin Young Calls for Dr. Binayak Sen's Freedom

Dr. Quentin Young has had a long and distinguished career as a medical doctor and a public health policy leader in the United States. He recently celebrated his birthday, still young after having turned 87.

A longtime friend of President Barack Obama and, more recently a critic of his healthcare policy, Dr. Young has been a vocal proponent of universal and comprehensive healthcare for all for decades. He fought to end racial discrimination in access to healthcare in Chicago area hospitals in the 1950's. Along with the Medical Committee for human rights, he was an active participant in the civil rights struggles in the American south, where he first met Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., later becoming his personal physician in Chicago.

Whether it was the fight against racism and discrimination, or the fight to end the American war in Vietnam, or confronting the House Unamerican Activities Committee or the fight for patients rights, prisoners' rights or the rights of people with HIV or AIDS, he was there as a leading participant in the struggles. Now he is here with us in the fight for Dr. Binayak Sen's freedom.

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• Binayak Sen
• Quentin Young
• India
• Chhattisgarh
• Human Rights
• Political Prisoner