View: Time for UAPA to meet the same fate as its predecessors – TADA and POTA"Laws such as the UAPA are meant to be repressive, to be deployed at the slightest inconvenience to the state. The provisions of this Act h...
India remains committed to promotion and protection of human rights: MEASome member countries including Ireland have been vocal on this issue, they said. On Monday, Eamon Gilmore, the European Union's Special Re...
UN, EU human rights officials term Stan Swamy's death as 'devastating'Swamy died at the Holy Family Hospital, where he was admitted on May 29, in Mumbai on Monday, a day after he suffered a cardiac arrest and ...
Stan Swamy's death an 'institutional murder': Family, friends of Elgar Parishad case accusedSwamy was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) from Ranchi in October 2020 under the stringent Unlawful Activities Preventio...
EU, UN officials join civil society in mourning deathThe death of Fr Stan Swamy evoked sorrow and anger in India and abroad. The 84-year-old ailing activist’s arrest by the NIA, his nine-month...
Tribal rights activist Stan Swamy deadSwamy was arrested in October last year in connection with the Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case. The 84-year-old, who had since been lodg...
View: No more custodial deaths of political prisoners! Prosecute them if you have evidence, or else, let them goBail is the norm and jail, the exception, ruled Justice V R Krishna Iyer. Unless an accused poses the risk of flight, destruction of eviden...
View: India bails itself out with Stan Swamy’s deathSwamy was booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for allegedly being one of those conspiring to bring dalits and Muslims tog...
Ruthless and callous government: Mehbooba Mufti on Stan Swamy's deathJesuit priest Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, died on Monday, an official of a hospital where he was being ...
Stan Swamy dead: Hospital tells Bombay High CourtSwamy, 84, died at 1.30 pm on Monday, Dr Ian D'Souza, director of the Holy Family Hospital in suburban Bandra, told the HC's division bench...
Elgar case: HC asks Maharashtra to move Stan Swamy to private hospitalA bench of Justices SS Shinde and NR Borkar directed the prison authorities to ensure that Swamy, 84, was shifted from the prison in Navi M...
Stan Swamy had conspired with Maoists to overthrow govt: CourtThe special NIA court that refused bail to the 83-year-old Jesuit priest and activist Stan Swamy in the Elgar Parishad-Maoists links case h...
Elgar Parishad case: Court denies bail to activist Stan SwamyAs per his lawyers, Swamy is suffering from Parkinson's disease and he has lost the ability to hear from both his ears. He also suffers fro...
Stan Swamy's wait for straw and sipper gets longer; also seeks bailSwamy, arrested in the alleged Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, on Thursday also filed a bail plea in the special NIA court, citing health...
NPRD seeks NHRC's intervention to provide basic amenities to jailed activist Stan SwamyEighty-three-year-old Swamy, a jesuit priest, was arrested for his alleged role inciting mob violence in Koregaon Bhima near Pune in Mahara...
Jharkhand withdraws general consent to CBI to probe cases, joins other non-BJP ruled statesJharkhand becomes the eighth non-BJP ruled state in recent years to disallow the CBI from carrying out an investigation without the state g...
NIA files charge-sheet against eight people in Bhima Koregaon caseNIA spokesperson and Deputy Inspector General of Police in the agency Sonia Narang said the charge-sheet was submitted before a designated ...