Healthy democracies must respect role of human rights activists: US on Stan Swamy’s death 

The Office of International Religious Freedom under the US State Department has called call on all governments to respect the vital role of human rights activists in healthy democracies,”  https://theprint.in/india/healthy-democracies-must-respect-role-of-human-rights-activists-us-on-stan-swamys-death/692104/ 

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/fr-stan-swamy-was-jailed-on-false-charges-says-top-un-official/article35156145.ece Jailing Human Rights Defenders is inexcusable,” says Mary Lawlor, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders.

Eamon Gilmore, EU Special Representative for Human Rights, said, “I am very saddened to hear that Fr. Stan Swamy has passed away. A defender of indigenous peoples’ rights, he was held in detention for the past 9 months. The EU had been raising his case repeatedly with the authorities”.

India and the EU have been engaged in a dialogue to defend human rights. Officials from both sides met for the 9th India-EU Human Rights Dialogue on April 12, 2021. “As the world's two largest democracies, India and the EU reiterated their commitment to human rights. In this context, they emphasised the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of all human rights,” a Joint Statement issued following the meeting had declared.

 

Kashmiri man released after 11 years of wrongful imprisonment https://muslimmirror.com/eng/kashmiri-man-released-after-11-years-of-wrongful-imprisonment/  “No evidence was found that he was in touch with terrorist elements through electronic gadgets,” the judge said.  Bashir’s family had staged dozens of protests when he was picked up by Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad, vouching for his innocence. The family said that even the Jammu and Kashmir Police had informed Gujarat Police about the innocence of Bashir and yet he was not released, reported the local news agency KNT.

Fr Stan Swamy challenges constitutional validity of UAPA’s bar on grant of bail before Bombay HC https://www.theleaflet.in/fr-stan-swamy-challenges-constitutional-validity-uapas-bar-on-grant-of-bail-before-bombay-hc/ by T he Leaflet July 2, 2021 Swamy has contended that this provision creates an ‘unsurmountable’ hurdle for the accused to get bail and, thus, is violative of Articles 14 (right to equality) and 21(right to life and personal liberty) of the Constitution. The plea also says the use of “front organisation” is dehors any statutory backing and further the use of this terminology in the first schedule of the UAPA is violative of Article 14, 19 and 21 in so far as it places arbitrary and overarching restrictions on fundamental rights.