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Online Petition: Appeal for Fr. Stan Swamy

Online Petition: Appeal for Fr. Stan Swamy

Drop the false charges against Fr Stan Swamy immediately!

We stand together strongly to condemn the false allegations and defamatory charges against Fr Stan Swamy by the Pune police, under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967 (UAPA). These charges frame him in the Bhima Koregaon case, call him an “urban naxalite”, and accuse him of plotting the assassination of the Prime Minister. They are patently false and defamatory.
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Full text: 82-year-old Stan Swamy, suspect in Bhima Koregaon case, ‘appeals to nation’s conscience’

Full text: 82-year-old Stan Swamy, suspect in Bhima Koregaon case, ‘appeals to nation’s conscience’

Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff

He criticised the government for targeting intellectuals working for the fundamental rights of the poor and labelling them ‘urban naxals’.
Jharkhand-based human rights activist and Catholic priest Stan Swamy, whose home was raided by the Pune police on August 28 in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case, on Friday released a statement criticising the government for targeting intellectuals working for the fundamental rights of the poor, and labelling them “urban naxals”.
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Activists Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde get relief from arrest

Activists Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde get relief from arrest

Scroll.in / By Sroll Staff

The Bombay High Court on Friday extended relief from arrest, in the Bhima Koregaon case, to activists Gautam Navlakha till January 14 and Anand Teltumbde till December 17, The Hindu reported. The court, however, rejected Stan Swamy’s petition to quash the first information report against him.
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Jharkhand Govt training Adivasis to fight/kill Adivasis: a Note of Resistance

Jharkhand Govt training Adivasis to fight/kill Adivasis: a Note of Resistance

First published: Jul 14, 2014

India Restists / By Stan Swamy

“Tribals to be trained in guerrilla warfare to fight Maoists in state” (Hindustan Times, Ranchi edition, 30-6-2014). The newspaper report goes on to spell out govt’s plan. Two special battalions comprising of youths from the primitive tribal groups in the state will be recruited and trained in advanced guerrilla warfare to fight the Maoists in the forests.
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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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