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'''Saumen Guha''' is a political activist turned human rights campaigner and author who is most famous for pursuing the case of his sister [[Archana Guha]] who was tortured by the police. They tortured her in order to extract information on her brother's whereabouts, alleging that he was a [[Naxalite]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Archana case: The longest legal battle |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/calcutta-times/Archana-case-The-longest-legal-battle/articleshow/119084613.cms |work= [[The Times of India]] |date=1 October 2001}}</ref><ref>[https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/nws21/001/1997/en/ Amnesty International Newsletter January 1997]</ref> After a lengthy historic legal battle the main perpetrator was declared guilty. A PUCL 'Journalism for Human Rights' award-winning article by Subhas Chandra Ganguly on this protracted legal battle was published in Frontier magazine in 1996,<ref>{{cite news |title=The Forgotten Decade: Archana Guha case|url=https://6d651eef-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/subhascganguly/writings/ArchanaGuhaCase%281996%29.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7cr6vw01-L0MAGViahrHOSx8Ak0FsI0yD1q5M0-L9DCzXxZvZJRp5cAy1xJDb6VKc4oYw-BspInaDa0dfejD2XTsyKAdYUvUPskQha_wFS_uL7hj2ClNVTvgyhNPk9x7QnA-2w15s70XdIpcDDL4K6GA8yJGs8aroBwsFlaIPhdbP9c8_9YPKGiruufJq3sp7slwdHGPq3qlXzu41tEUr_IEd70ThBDG2s4dN1jqGCbLGNpGe-XEs-8bmM0UcfKiz0wIhhoD&attredirects=0}}</ref> and his acceptance speech also described the case in detail.<ref>{{cite news |title= Speech accepting the 16th Annual PUCL award on 'Journalism for Human Rights'|url=https://6d651eef-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/subhascganguly/writings/AcceptanceSpeech-1997.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7co-82KnQ99SljBrGXXb5RfuXW_WIHclpKuu-3IMhkZt4rNRvEu8OfeG64k4j1bZoOPIlP-f_MRnvMalEkfQg2rFK13-DVNORmCRIZTRPWgNxuqnT8MS0nLD9WbrHvIkoaD5tyVIjoMVWf7CdP85Ro8w2xccZ0XrgpHTb3sRIeYyyfRmvSmDUcH2fGQ9l9vSObKohRpflFOJnSwbDPkhK06Sb4UJoEUc58sgPTkPnHD61ukSGR0eabKcd2rLJq3X9o6NfqN_&attredirects=0}}</ref>

In 1998 he petitioned the [[Indian Supreme Court]] to halt the country's [[Indian nuclear programme|nuclear testing]] programme.<ref>{{cite news |last=Banerjee |first= Partha S. |title=Terrible implications from those nuclear tests |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zm40AAAAIBAJ&sjid=3xQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3697,3789816&dq=saumen-guha&hl=en |work=[[New Straits Times]] |date=29 June 1998 |accessdate=1 October 2010 }}</ref>

Saumen Guha is also credited with introducing [[Super 8 mm film]] format in [[West Bengal]] and Eastern India which played a huge role in the Eastern Indian Super 8 [[Independent film]] movement during the 1980s.<ref>{{cite news |title=Super-8 mm movement in West Bengal |url=http://canvaspix.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/super-8-movement/ |work=Activist Canvas |date=10 February 2010}}</ref>

==Works==
A collection of Saumen Guha's selected writings on interface between science and society in Bengali has been published as an open access e-book, 'Science, Society and Man'.<ref>{{cite news |title=Science, Society and Man |url=http://sites.google.com/site/saumenguha1/ |work=Science Society and Man |date=5 January 2014}}</ref>

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