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Human rights activists, academicians and lawyers on Thursday gathered to call for the release of the jailed human rights defenders in the Elgar Parishad case.

A hacker planted evidence on a device owned by prominent human rights defender Stan Swamy, who was an undertrial prisoner in the Bhima Koregaon case, said a report by a United States-based digital forensics firm.

A resolution has been introduced in the United States Congress seeking an independent inquiry into the death of tribal rights activist Stan Swamy, Congressman Juan Vargas said on Tuesday.

For the past 10 months, Atiq has not received any treatment for his condition or had access to the permanent medications that he has been consuming since childhood, Mateen- Atiq’s brother told Maktoob.

Protesting the "custodial death" of the Jesuit priest and human rights activist Father Stan Swamy, the Bhima Koregaon accused prisoners who were lodged in Taloja jail in Maharashtra have announced to sit on a one-day hunger strike on Wednesday. Meanwhile, alleged Maoist leader Roopesh, an undertrial prisoner in Viyyur jail in Kerala, have observed a day-long hunger strike on Wednesday protesting the same.

Opposition leaders including Congress president Sonia Gandhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar and chief ministers of Jharkhand, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu have written to President Ram Nath Kovind urging him "to direct the Government to act against those responsible for foisting false cases" on the renowned tribal rights activist and Elgaar Parishad case accused Father Stan Swamy, who died on Monday.