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Gautam Navlakha, Anand Teltumbde, Stan Swamy get relief from arrest till December 14

Gautam Navlakha, Anand Teltumbde, Stan Swamy get relief from arrest till December 14

Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff

The Bombay High Court asked the prosecution to submit by December 4 all the relevant material in the case against the activists.
The Bombay High Court on Thursday restrained the police from arresting activists Gautam Navlakha, Anand Teltumbde and Stan Swamy till December 14, PTI reported. While Navlakha had been arrested in August in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case, the homes and offices of Teltumbde and Swamy had been searched.
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The Dispossession and Criminalisation of Adivasis in Central India

The Dispossession and Criminalisation of Adivasis in Central India

First published: Aug 3, 2010

Sanhati / By Stan Swamy

The dispossessed Adivasi is hunted as a criminal;
the looter-outsider has become ‘honourable citizen’.
1. The sad story of impoverishment of the Adivasi : A few examples will suffice. Gladson Dungdung is a young human rights activist and writer. His family had 20 acres of fertile land in Simdega district, Jharkhand . It was forcibly acquired by the govt for the construction of a dam at a terribly low rate. The compensation for the 20 acres fertile land the family got was Rs. 11,000. Even by minimal standards, it should have been at least Rs. 20 Iakhs. This is just one example among many many such deprivations. Is this not deliberate impoverishment of a people ?
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Is the owner of land also the owner of the minerals?

Is the owner of land also the owner of the minerals?

First published: Jun 6, 2015

Sanhati / By Stan Swamy

‘Minerals are an essential part of the land …the ownership of sub-soil/mineral wealth should normally follow the ownership of the land” – (SC:CIVIL APPEAL NO. 4549 OF 2000, delivered on July 8, 2013)
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Maoist-link allegation absolute fabrication: Jesuit activist

Maoist-link allegation absolute fabrication: Jesuit activist

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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Father Stan Swamy, Children and the Unholy State

Father Stan Swamy, Children and the Unholy State

The Wire / By Rajendran Narayanan and Debmalya

Stan Swamy has brought to light the deplorable conditions in which the undertrials are barely surviving and has sought answers for such repressive and illegal measures meted out by the State, while also fighting for the rights of Adivasis in Jharkhand.
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If you raise questions, you are anti-government, anti-national: Adivasi-rights activist Stan Swamy on the Bhima-Koregaon crackdown

If you raise questions, you are anti-government, anti-national: Adivasi-rights activist Stan Swamy on the Bhima-Koregaon crackdown

The Caravan Magazine / By Chitrangada Choudhury

On 28 August, the Pune Police raided the homes of nine prominent human-rights activists and intellectuals across the country. … In an interview over the phone, the journalist Chitrangada Choudhury spoke to Swamy about the police’s action against him, and his work in the Adivasi areas of Jharkhand over several decades. “We directly confront the government in the courts on issues of Adivasis,” Swamy said. “Because we ask questions, we are being harassed.”
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Case against me is nothing but an absolute fabrication

Case against me is nothing but an absolute fabrication

Sanhati / By Stan Swamy

Maharashtra police held a press conference in Mumbai on August 31, 2018. Additional Director-General (law and order) of Maharashtra police Mr. Parambir Singh told the media that in relation to the incident of Bhima-Koregaon, initially a FIR was lodged on January 8, 2018. According to him the name of Stan Swamy was added in the aforesaid FIR on August 23 along with the names of Arun Fereira, Varavara Rao, Vernon Gonsalvez, Sudha Bhardwaj, Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde.
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How the State hounded Stan Swamy, the Man who made People his Religion

How the State hounded Stan Swamy, the Man who made People his Religion

Sabrang Indina / By Sushmita

On the morning of August 28 just as the people of Ranchi city were waking up to a clear sky after heavy downpours in the previous days, and preparing themselves for the day’s chores, they were taken aback by the abrupt raid on the home of Father Stan Swamy, a Jesuit Priest and one of the city’s most prominent social and political activists.
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