From sippers and sweaters to mail and mulaqats, how prisoners are being kept waiting for basics
From sippers and sweaters to mail and mulaqats, how prisoners are being kept waiting for basics
29/11/2020
Times of India / Himanshi Dhawan
Letters from wife? Rejected. Sipper for Parkinson’s patient? Court hearing awaited. Warm clothes to deal with the capital’s chilly temperatures? Allowed but after a long wait.
Many a political prisoner in Maharashtra and Delhi has been struggling for access to basic necessities these last few month.
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Stan Swamy gets a sipper, finally
29/11/2020
Mumbai Mirror / by Shruti Ganapatye
The ‘inhumane’ treatment meted out to the 83-year-old Parkinson’s patient by the NIA and Taloja jail authorities had drawn a lot of flak from citizens.
Almost 50 days after his arrest, 83-year-old tribal rights activist Stan Swamy , who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, was provided a sipper by the Taloja Jail authorities.
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