By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: People from various walks of life on November 7 condemned the response of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to a request of an 83-year-Jesuit with Parkinson’s disease now languishing in a jail in Mumbai, western India. Father Stan Swamy November 7 moved the NIAContinue Reading
By Tony PM and Peter Martin Ranchi: Jesuit Father Stanislaus Lourduswamy’s arrest on the night of October 8 has caused a stir in India, especially in the country’s central and eastern region where the 83-year-old has spent half a century relentlessly fighting for the rights and values of indigenous people.Continue 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
Ranchi: The National Investigation Agency on October 8 took into custody Jesuit social activist Father Stan Lourduswamy for his alleged links with Maoists and banned organizations. The federal agency took the 83-year-old Catholic priest from the Bagaicha campus, his residence near Ranchi, capital of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.Continue Reading
By Stan Swamy Dumka, Feb 20, 2020: The second half of 2019 (July – December) was both a very trying but sobering experience for me. The Jharkhand police were after me and I was after the police. The difference was the police acted illegally and I acted legally. Issue ofContinue Reading