Saturday, April 20, 2024

Topic: Bhima Koregaon

Dear Hany, this is just to say

In the utterance of word, there hunches a mountain that I must climb—and just when I begin to plant my feet on the burly mountain-limb, it collapses into tiny mounds of alphabet I struggle to assemble.

Painful wait Stan Swamy will have to endure for sipper, can’t be tolerated: Rights body

The National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) has expressed its outrage at the continued denial of a sipper and straw to jailed activist Stan Swamy.

‘Varavara Rao almost on deathbed’ Bombay HC orders to shift arrested poet to Nanavati Hospital

Taking note of the critical medical condition of the arrested poet Varavara Rao, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed that he be shifted to Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital from Taloja Jail, for 15 days for a thorough check-up, Live Law reported.

Professor Hany Babu is indispensable

A small carton sat on the coffee table with a note in Marathi. Three books for Hany Babu, an associate professor in the department of English of Delhi university, has been returned from Taloja jail in Mumbai. “What is their problem with books?” ask Jenny Rowena, wife of Hany Babu.

MPs of Congress, DMK, NCP, left parties to seek UAPA repeal

At a press conference organised by human rights body People’s Union for Civil Liberties, 11 eminent personalities including Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and MPs Shashi Tharoor (Congress), Supriya Sule (NCP), and Kanimozhi (DMK) have called for united action in demanding the repeal of the draconian UAPA and condemned "illegal arrests" in Bhima-Koregaon case.

Society of Jesuits working in 80 countries dismayed by arrest of Stan Swamy

The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) working in more than 80 countries all over the world said they are deeply pained to know that an 83-year-old Jesuit and rights defender Father Stan Swamy has been arrested by National Investigation Agency from his residence in Ranchi.