In the last months of his life, Stan Swamy was in the news for all the wrong reasons—starting with what he firmly maintained was his wrongful arrest and detention as a co-accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence case, to being denied a sipper tumbler in prison, which he requestedContinue Reading
By Arun Ferreira Mumbai: Although we received news by late evening on October 8, 2020, of Father Stan Swamy’s arrest, we were quite shocked to see him the next morning in the adjourning barrack conversing with inmates in his impeccable Hindi. I was at that time lodged in a cellContinue Reading
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Tuesday submitted to the Bombay High Court the medical records of Jesuit priest and activist Stan Swamy, an 84-year-old accused in the Elgar Parishad case who died in a hospital while being in judicial custody last week awaiting a medical bail. Chief public prosecutor ArunaContinue Reading
Geneva; The United Nations says it is deeply disturbed by the death in pre-trial detention of Jesuit Father Stan Swamy, an 84-year-old Indian rights activist. Swamy, who was jailed for nine months without trial under Indian anti-terror law, died in a hospital in Mumbai on July 5 ahead of aContinue Reading
Mumbai: Tribal rights activist Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoists links case, has challenged in the Bombay High Court a provision of the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) dealing with grant of bail, contending it has created an “insurmountable hurdle” for those seeking relief. Father Swamy saidContinue Reading
Mumbai: The National Investigating Agency (NIA) has opposed the bail plea filed by Jesuit activist Father Stan Swamy in the Bombay High Court. The probe agency said the priest, accused in the Elgar Parishad case, was a “Maoist” who was engaged in activities to spread Maoism, and that he wasContinue Reading