Topic: Bhima Koregaon
Prominent international figures urge release of human rights defenders in India
Over 50 eminent international figures including members of several European parliaments academics, lawyers, Nobel laureates, civil society leaders, and diasporic organisations have signed a joint statement urging the Indian government to show compassion and responsibility in the current Covid emergency, and call upon the authorities to release all arrested human rights defenders into safe conditions in the light of the dire threats to their health given the spread of Covid in Indian prisons.
Bhima Koregaon under-trial prisoners Mahesh Raut, Sagar Gorkhe and Ramesh Gaichor test positive for COVID-19
Three under-trial prisoners in the Bhima Koregaon case – Mahesh Raut, Sagar Gorkhe and Ramesh Gaichor – have tested positive for the COVID-19 disease.
Father Stan Swamy tests positive for COVID-19
The 84-year-old Jesuit priest and an under-trial prisoner in the Bhima Koregaon case, Father Stan Swamy, 84, tested COVID-19 positive at the Holy Family Hospital on Sunday.
Father Stan Swamy takes a stand
Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ
It was quintessential Stan! In a manner that has come to characterize him, Jesuit Fr Stan Swamy told the Bombay High...
I will die if this goes on, Stan Swamy tells Bombay High Court
Jailed human rights defender Stan Swamy on Friday told the Bombay High Court that he did not wish to be admitted to a hospital, and urged the court to consider his request for interim bail, legal website Bar and Bench reported.
‘Cannot rule out deadly black fungus possibility’ claims Hany Babu’s lawyer in court, Bombay HC orders to shift Hany Babu to private hospital
In the petition, counsels of Hany Babu claimed that his eye infection would be a possible Mucormycosis, also known as "black fungus", is a rare but serious infection, which has been found in several COVID-19 patients, since he has tested for coronavirus.
