Anti Posco Leader Illegally Chained to Hospital Bed

Abhay Sahoo, the firebrand leader of the anti POSCO farmers' & fishermen's movement in Jagatsinpur district of Orissa was arrested on 12 October. He had more than twenty falses cases registered against him and he had been under the villagers protection for more than a year in Dhinkia. On the day of his arrest he was returning to Dhinkia after a medical checkup. He is diabetic and asthmatic. He was hospitalised on 3rd December after his blood sugar levels shot up. But he has not been given a bed and has been illegally chained to the leg of a bed as if he were a dangerous criminal. Such treatment is usually meant for dangerous and notorious criminals, not for those who are fighting for the democratic rights of the poor, oppressed and marginalised people against the powerful nexus of politicians, corporations, bureaucrats & mafia.

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News & Politics

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• Anti
• Posco
• Orissa
• Abhay
• Sahoo
• Human
• Rights

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