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What does the death of a jailed Jesuit priest say about India's democracy under Modi?
Stan Swamy had recently published a study of 3,000 people jailed for being members of banned Maoist groups. He found that 97% of them had no such affiliation and that many of their trials were held without lawyers, in a language they didn't understand. He'd filed a case on their behalf in the state court of Jharkhand, where he lived. All of this had embarrassed the government, he said.
#StanSwamy #jharkhand #adivasis #AdivasiRights #ForestRights #maoists #dalits #BK16 #BhimaKoregaonCase #HumanRights #UAPA #BJP #india
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/02/1250799690/india-democracy-modi-priest-jail-death
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Time to repeal UAPA in a country boasting to be a democracy
'A country boasting to be a democracy cannot have a vague and draconian law like UAPA, which is only used to frame activists, political opponents and critiques of the state,' writes Banjyotsna Lahiri.
#UAPA #DraconianLaws #dissent #PressFreedom #PoliticalPrisoners #UmarKhalid #StanSwamy #HumanRights #democracy #india