Washington: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that he would look into the case of an 83-year-old Catholic priest, held in India on allegations he was linked to Maoists. Responding March 10 to a request from a member of the House of Representatives, Blinken asked for more informationContinue Reading
New Delhi: In a meeting with Catholic cardinal on January 19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that he would not be able to help in the issue of Jesuit priest Father Stan Swamy’s incarceration at Taloja Jail in Maharashtra. “When we brought it up in the meeting, the Prime MinisterContinue Reading
New Delhi: A disability rights group has written to the National Human Rights Commission chairperson demanding that the ailing and elderly Fr Stan Swamy, who is lodged in a Maharashtra jail over alleged Maoist links, be given the treatment and facilities he needs to survive. In the letter to NHRCContinue Reading
Kohima: A peaceful demonstration to protest the alleged false implication and jailing of the 83-year old social activist and Jesuit priest Rev Fr Stan Swamy SJ was held in Kohima on November 17. Updates from the organizers informed that the demonstration began with a prayer led by Rev Fr RichardContinue Reading
Ranchi: Father Stan Swamy is a Jesuit priest and a tribal rights activist based in Jharkhand, eastern India. Two days before his arrest, Father Stan Swamy, 83, a Jharkhand-based Jesuit priest, human rights activist and writer who was arrested by NIA on October 8 in the Bhima Koregaon case, hadContinue Reading
Kolkata: We are distressed and troubled at the violation of human rights in the arrest of 83-year-old Father Stan Lourdu Swamy. He was arrested October 8 in Ranchi, taken to Mumbai the next day, and then sent to judicial custody at Taloja central jail in the city until October 23.Continue Reading