https://thewire.in/rights/father-stan-swamy-bhima-koregaon-elgar-parishad-resistance-prisoners
On the fourth anniversary of Father Stan's death due to alleged medical negligence in prison, his co-defendants in jail have vowed to lead a hunger strike.
The fourth anniversary of Father Stan’s martyrdom is significant to keep alive the memory of how this repressive state targeted an octogenarian Jesuit priest. It twice conducted raids and searches at his residence-cum-research-and-resource centre in Ranchi, called Bagaicha. He was then named in trumped up cases, culminating in his arrest in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case. Finally, he was put in confinement in a faraway place like Taloja Central Prison in Maharashtra where despite his ill health and growing ailments was deliberately kept away from timely medical care so that his body finally gave away during the peak of the pandemic.
by Hany Babu, Jyoti Jagtap, Mahesh Raut, Ramesh Murlidhar Gaichor, Sagar Gorkhe and Surendra Gadling
04/07/2025