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Mumbai Rises: Life of Prisoners put at risk during pandemic! Release All Political Prisoners!

16/07/2020 Rani

By Mumbai Rises To Save Democracy

Life of Prisoners put at risk during pandemic !
VARAVARA RAO tests positive for Covid 19!
Demand Immediate Release of All Political Prisoners!
STOP IMPRISONING DURING PANDEMIC!

People’s Poet Varavara Rao has been shifted to the Saint George Hospital today after he tested positive for Coronavirus. The 80 year old poet has been jailed along with 10 others activists in a false case post the attacks at Bhima Koregaon in 2018. …

Police Raid Father Stan Swamy’s House Again, Take Email, Facebook Details

12/06/2019 Rani

Image Courtesy: Twitter/B.B. Choudhary

The Wire / By The Wire Staff

The nature of the latest raid closely mimics that of the first one on the priest’s house on August 28, 2018.
An eight-member team of the Pune city police raided the Ranchi residence of rights activist Father Stan Swamy in the early hours of June 12, the second such abrupt raid on the 83-year-old’s house since August 2018.
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Activists leaked security inputs to wanted Maoists, says supplementary charge sheet

21/02/2019 Rani

Business Standard / by ANI

Hyderabad based poet Varavara Rao along with Nagpur activist and lawyer Surendra Gadling provided security-related information to wanted Maoists, alleged a supplementary charge sheet filed by the Pune Police on Thursday in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case.
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Condition of human rights in Jharkhand is awful, question govt and you can be called extremist

30/01/2019 Rani

National Herald / by Ashlin Mathew

The 82-year old priest Father Stan Swamy’s believes he is being treated as a ‘suspect’ in Bhima Koregaon case because he has been working with tribals in Jharkhand and questioning the state govt…
Edited excerpts of an interview
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Maoist-link allegation absolute fabrication: Jesuit activist

04/09/2018 Rani

Matters India / 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 several cities on August 28 by the officials of the Maharashtra police’s Crime Branch. The special police team from the western Indian state arrested five people on charges of supporting Maoists engaged in anti-national activities, including a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Jharkhand: Activist Stan Swamy claims he is being targeted for working with Dalits and Adivasis

03/09/2018 Rani

Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff

The 83-year-old was among the activists raided by the Pune Police in connection with the Bhima Koregaon violence last week.
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Jharkhand HC Admits Petition on Mass Incarceration of Adivasis & Dalits

09/01/2018 Rani

CJP / by Teesta Setlavad

Youth from oppressed sections of society languishing in jail due to inordinate delays.
After several preliminary hearings, the Jharkand HC has admitted the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by the Persecuted Prisoners Solidarity Committee [PPSC] on under-trial prisoners in the jails of Jharkhand. Several thousands of them, mostly Adivasi and Dalit youth, who have been languishing in prison because their trials have been deliberately prolonged. If speedy trial had been held most of them would have been be acquitted by now, the petition alleges.
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