By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, April 25, 2020: Civil rights groups will join the Jesuits to organize special programs in various parts of India to pay tribute on the 85th birth anniversary of Father Stan Swamy, modern apostle of justice and truth. Father Swamy, Jesuit social activist, died JulyContinue Reading
By Geeta Pandey New Delhi: Life in prison is expected to be tough. But in recent weeks, jail authorities in India have been called out for being especially cruel to prisoners, particularly the government’s critics who are described as “human rights defenders” by international rights groups. Earlier this month, theContinue Reading
New Delhi: The People’s Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) has condemned the “malicious and spiteful” arrest and detention of Jesuit Father Stanislaus Lourduswamy. The National Investigation Agency on October 8 arrested the 83-year-old social activist from his residence at the Bagaicha campus, a Jesuit center, near Ranchi, the capital ofContinue Reading
By Stan Swamy Ranchi, June 21, 2020: What disaster commercialization would bring is exemplified in the following narrative of what an Adivasi community was before start of mining in their neighborhood and what damage it did in course of time: Dubil is an Adivasi village in Saranda forest of WestContinue 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
By Matters India Reporter Ranchi: An 82-year-old Jesuit activist on September 3 dismissed as “complete concoction and absolute falsehood” a police allegation that he has links with Maoists and banned organizations. Father Stan Lourdusamy was among nine human rights activists who were raided in a pre-dawn simultaneous action across severalContinue Reading
The raids are reportedly linked to caste-related violence erupted at Bhima Koregaon near Pune on January 1Continue Reading
Marandi was arrested because he shared the name of a MaoistContinue Reading