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29 April 2014 Last updated at 23:24 BST
Shiban Ahmed has not fully returned to work since he was suspended in 2009.
Dr Kim Holt, from the Patients First campaign group, said she believed Mr Ahmed's human rights had been violated.
The hospital denied that Mr Ahmed had "in any way been mistreated" because he was a whistleblower.
A campaigning group of doctors is calling for a judicial inquiry into the case of a surgeon who raised concerns about patient safety at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool.